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‘If military actions restart in Artsakh, Azerbaijan will use Nakhijevan by Turkey’s direct support’: Aram Sargsyan

“It is evident that if military actions restart in Artsakh, Azerbaijan will use Nakhijevan territory by Turkey’s direct support to attack Armenia, particularly taking into account that the distance between the self-governing region and Yerevan amounts to 80 km. It is an entirely available distance for a jet system of volley fire,” explained Aram Sargsyan.
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Satellite Images Attest to Djulfa’s Disappearance

Five years after Azerbaijan’s war against defenseless medieval Armenian burial monuments, khachkars, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has released satellite image comparison and analysis where, in the 2009 data, no trace of the Djulfa cemetery remains.

AAAS’ press release reads, in part:

A high-resolution satellite image of a medieval Armenian cemetery in Azerbaijan taken in September 2003 shows hundreds of khachkars, intricate 15th and 16th century burial monuments. In a satellite image from May 2009, however, the khachkars are missing, suggesting that they were either destroyed or removed.
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Half of Nakhijevan population migrates in search of work

Official data about the population of Nakhijevan Autonomous Republic is inflated twice, and the statements that there is no unemployment in the autonomy seem funny to any resident of the region, Commented Yashar Bagyrsoy the Chairman of the Department of Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan in the Nakhijevan Autonomous Republic in the publication on statistical data concerning the situation in the republic.
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Armenian monuments stand tall in Harvard photo exhibit

Consider the beautiful khatchkars: they started out standing proud and tall. Majestic, detailed, ornate. They began to lean, looking weaker, until finally they were cracked, buried and demolished – leaving the heart of Armenia’s culture, its religion, its very people, broken.

This is what the photo exhibit, Armenian Monuments of the Nakhichevan Region, by Argam Ayvazian and Steven Sim, reveals to its visitors. Panel after panel fill the Concourse Gallery corridors at Harvard with pictures of patterned pottery, rock drawings, tombstones, churches, and of course, khatchkars, or cross-stones.

by Yvette k. Harpootian
November 10, 2007
The Armenian Reporter

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