DESTRUCTION OF ARMENIAN CEMETERY
From: Aram Hamparian/ANCA
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:24 PM
To: Armenian Diaspora
Subject: 60 Seconds . . . to protest Azerbaijan's destruction of sacred Armenian cemetery.
Parev,
One minute. Sixty seconds. Less than the time it takes to sharpen a pencil.
Please take a moment today to ask for an end to official U.S. silence in
response to Azerbaijan's blatant desecration of a 7th Century Armenian
cemetery in Djulfa, Nakhichevan. All you need to do is to fill out and
return (by fax or email) the attached letter and we will forward it to
our government's representative in Baku - Amb. Reno Harnish.
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Watch the shocking video of the destruction
Aram
P.S. Please share this letter with non-Armenian friends and colleagues -
especially clergy, church leaders, religious institutions, and
faith-based groups.
Aram Suren Hamparian
Executive Director
Armenian National Committee of America
888 17th St, NW, Suite 904
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: (202) 775-1918
Fax: (202) 775-5648
anca@anca.org
www.anca.org
DO YOUR PART!
Do Your Part to Preserve Armenia’s Rich Cultural HeritagePlease call on the U.S. government to forcefully protest this
systematic, blatant, and thoroughly documented desecration of world
heritage.
Ask the U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan to demand that the Azerbaijani
government cease all attacks on Armenian cultural and religious sites,
visit the site himself to survey the damage, and facilitate an
independent investigation of all Armenian historical monuments
throughout Azerbaijan.
More broadly, encourage the U.S. government to work through
international groups such as UNESCO and ICOMOS, to prevent similar
assaults bythe Turkish, Azerbaijani and Georgian governments on the
extensive Armenian cultural legacy in the region.
Your efforts will support the work of the ANCA with the U.S. State
Department, Congress, UNESCO, ICOMOS, the media, and cultural
preservation experts to demand that Armenia’s neighbors honor their
international commitments to protect the region’s rich Armenian cultural
heritage.
Visit the ANCA website to learn about how you can make a difference:
http://www.anca.org
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THE FACTS
Beginning December 10, 2005, approximately 200 Azerbaijani soldiers
amassed at the Nakhichevan-Iran border to demolish the remaining grave
markers at the Djulfa Armenian cemetery.
Azerbaijani soldiers broke the remaining cemetery stones (dabanakars)
with sledgehammers and axes. The broken cemetery stones were rolled down
into the Arax river.
See for
yourself...
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