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Gravestones of Artsakh heroes Abajyan and Urfanyan vandalized

Panorama, Armenia
Sept 5 2020
Society 15:25 05/09/2020Armenia

Flower laying and incense ceremony took place at the Yerevan Yerablur Military Pantheon on Saturday in memory of Armenak Urfanyan and other heroes of the April Four-Day war. During the memorial event, the relatives of the fallen heroes and the visitors discovered the gravestones of Armenak Urfanyan and Robert Abajyan are vandalized.

In particular tombstones were vandalized by what appeared to be melted candles.The relatives reported the incident to police. Later the law enforcement arrived at the scene.

This is not the first incident at Yerablur Pantheon. Last year
the police detained a person responsible for vandalizing gravestones of heroes at the Military Pantheon.

According to the Police statement, the suspect was identified as 51-year-old woman living in Yerevan who was detained in the cemetery of Ashtarak town, observed while exhibiting a strange behavior. As the detained woman explained to the law enforcement, she had poured candle wax on gravestones on number of cemeteries in capital Yerevan and adjacent settlements what she described as “to remove a curse”.


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