The government refused to allow a delegation of European MPs to visit the site, precipitating an international fracas.  Nothing suspicious going on there.

Fears that Azerbaijan has systematically destroyed hundreds of 500-year-old Christian artefacts have exploded into a diplomatic row, after Euro MPs were barred from inspecting an ancient Armenian burial site.

The predominantly Muslim country's government has been accused of "flagrant vandalism" similar to the Taliban's demolition of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan.

The claims centre on the fate of rare "khachkars", stone crosses carved with intricate floral designs, at the burial ground of Djulfa in the Nakhichevan region of Azerbaijan, an enclave separated from the rest of the country by Armenia.
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The Azerbaijan government, which denies the claims, is now at the centre of a row with MEPs, some of whom it accused of a "biased and hysterical approach". Its ambassador to the EU also says the European Parliament has ignored damage to Muslim sites in Armenia. Azerbaijan has refused to allow a delegation of Euro MPs permission to visit the 1,500-year-old Djulfa cemetery during their trip to the region last month.

At one time, there were 10,000 khachkars, most dating from the 15th and 16th centuries; but by the 1970s, only 3000 were still standing.  Since then, Azerbaijan has been intentionally demolishing those that remain.  Reports appearing in the Armenian press claim that sledgehammer-wielding Azeri soldiers smashed the final khachkars last December.  Charles Tannock, Conservative foreign affairs spokesman in the European parliament, says that the area has been covered over with concrete and made into a military camp.

In mid-April, a report from the Institute for War and Peace Reporting quoted an eye-witness visitor to the cemetery site saying it had been completely destroyed.

via Dhimmi Watch.

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