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    Emil Lazarian
  • 7 years ago
    • Categories: 2019

Relatives cleaning vandalized graves of April war heroes

Panorama, Armenia
Aug 1 2019

Relatives of the soldiers fallen during the 2016 April war are trying to clean the vandalized gravestones of the heroes at the Yerevan Yerablur Military Pantheon.

Numerous war veterans, reporters and lawmakers have also visited the military cemetery after a Facebook video showed soldiers’ tombstones vandalized by what appears to be melted candles.

Freedom fighter Samvel Mkrtchyan believes vandalism has been committed by a sect or it is a provocative act.

He called for consistent efforts to track down those responsible, to hold them to account and to prevent such cases of vandalism in the future.

Prosperous Armenian MP Arman Abovyan expressed conviction the vandals will be punished.

He called on the offenders to turn themselves in to police.

Earlier a police source told Panorama.am the Yerevan Police Department is studying the video at the moment. 



Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS