Save Armenian Monuments

We pursue the sustained safeguarding of in-situ Armenian Christian heritage at risk

[Simon Maghakyan @simonforco]

Honored to be speaking at this year's @IRFSummit in Washington D.C. Register at https://t.co/coVvgdrFw6

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are the number of days that the Azerbaijani dictatorship has been blockading Nagorno-Karabakh.

120,000 people are under siege, with little food or medicine.

#ArtsakhBlockade

[Artyom Tonoyan @tonoyan.bsky.social @DrArtyomTonoyan]

Azerbaijan’s crooked mirror propaganda. After Armenia filed a complaint with the ICJ it was only a matter if time before Azerbaijan countered and one upped with exaggerations and downright falsehoods.

[Simon Maghakyan @simonforco]

Due to lack of candles that are imported, today parishioners were unable to take the light from the Christmas eve mass to their homes (Armenians celebrate Christmas on January 6)
https://t.co/1rYWVOqJXw

[Simon Maghakyan @simonforco]

While Azerbaijan’s ongoing blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, which started on December 12, is a humanitarian crisis, it is also violating religious freedoms

Here are examples that @IRF_Ambassador, @USCIRF, @articleeighteen, @NazilaGhanea, @nuryturkel & @UK_FoRBEnvoy should note:🧵

[Christian Solidarity International (CSI) @CSI_humanrights]

Why are the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute and the World Trade Center Utah (@WTCUtah, @UUtah, @hinckleyinst) hosting the ambassador of one of the world’s most repressive dictatorships, just as that dictatorship is blockading a civilian population?

#ArtsakhBlockade

[Simon Maghakyan @simonforco]

An international conference on human & cultural security in Nagorno-Karabakh, organized by @WesternDiocese, just concluded in Los Angeles. During the closing session I read the conference communiqué, summarizing participant recommendations & our next steps https://t.co/oZfweS17ZT

[Simon Maghakyan @simonforco]

🚨 first-ever photos of the bulldozed Armenian cemetery of Mets Tagher, in Hadrut/ Nagorno-Karabakh. @bbcrussian journalists confirm @CaucasusHW’s satellite study that Azerbaijan flattened the cemetery in 2020-21. Per BBC, only one gravestone has survived. https://t.co/T1hnIVC9er

[Simon Maghakyan @simonforco]

Rather bizarre *resignation* from a symbolic position, with an equally odd call on UNESCO to do something (dispatch a monitoring mission) that her husband/president has been resisting for years.

Perhaps Baku has been recently pressured by OSCE to finally allow UNESCO monitors?

[Ruben Vardanyan @RubenVardanyan_]

At the beginning of November, I will formally assume the position of State Minister of Artsakh and will, at the same time, set out our strategic goals and priority tasks that we need to solve, as well as announce the first steps that we will take.

[Simon Maghakyan @simonforco]

Այս նոր ֆիլմի նպատակն է ծանոթացնել հուշարձանների մաքրման պրոֆեսիոնալ մոտեցումների հետ: This Armenian film (taped at a community clean up at Bri Yeghtsi, Artsakh's widest monastic complex, by @SAMonuments & other stakeholders) teaches community archaeology. https://t.co/CTg2Coj5Sy

[Simon Maghakyan @simonforco]

BREAKING 🚨@Cornell U reports that Azerbaijan has flattened St. Sargis church in Mokhrenes village (occupied Hadrut region) between March & July 2022, 1st major violation of @CIJ_ICJ https://t.co/MZLe0hduof Here are interior images; @CaucasusHW will likely release satellites soon

[CaucasusHeritageWatch @CaucasusHW]

CHW has concluded a year-long investigation into the Armenian churches and cemeteries of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. The results, based on unprecedented site-by-site analysis, reveal a plan of state-sponsored cultural erasure with few parallels. 1/8 https://t.co/yUtfuHkMaG

[Simon Maghakyan @simonforco]

State-sponsored Azerbaijani tv @TvIctimai is on a racist mission to “expose” khachkars “recently installed by Armenian vandals.” On Sep 3. this 10th-11th c. khachkar at Kusanats Anapat (near Dadivank) was “exposed” as “fake” - an effective call to destroy a 1000-yr-old artifact.

[Simon Maghakyan @simonforco]

My sister @ArpyArev’s new but already iconic children’s book, Արևի Համբուրած Շուշին [Sun-kissed Shushi], published in Yerevan in 2022 with support from @SAMonuments, is now catalogued at the @librarycongress! https://t.co/ksl1kOEjJ0

[Simon Maghakyan @simonforco]

Looking forward to discussing Preventing Cultural Genocide with Prof. Mashinka Firunts Hakopian & Artsakh Deputy Culture Minister Lernik Hovhannisyan at the September 24 @ANCA_WR Grassroots Conference at @SheratonUniv in LA. Tickets $50 ($25 for students): https://t.co/aazfM3c6or

[Simon Maghakyan @simonforco]

Nagorno-Karabakh’s Human Rights Defender @ArtsakhOmbuds @Gegham_Artsakh just released a new report on current developments https://t.co/7sngq56OrV, including this harrowing image: Armenians displaced from the Lachin Corridor have exhumed family graves to prevent their desecration

[Simon Maghakyan @simonforco]

Full report also calls out "Incitement to racial hatred and the propagation of racist stereotypes against persons of Armenian national or ethnic origin, including on the Internet and social media, as well as by public figures and governmental officials" https://t.co/zzHpmhwcaC

[Simon Maghakyan @simonforco]

BREAKING: Today the UN #CERD [Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination] released its findings on Azerbaijan, calling out its “grave human rights violations” against Armenian POWs & “destruction of Armenian cultural heritage.” https://t.co/U7rKknNne4