March 23, 2023

Hishel

we will never forget

Monumental loss: Azerbaijan and ‘the worst cultural genocide of the 21st century’

A damning new report details an attempted erasure by Azerbaijan of its Armenian cultural heritage, including the destruction of tens of thousands of Unesco-protected ancient stone carvings.

The 21st century’s most extensive campaign of cultural cleansing to date may not have happened in Syria, as you might assume, but a largely ignored part of the Transcaucasian plateau.

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