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[byzantio]

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

[tears-of-araxes-blog]

The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia: Regimes and Revolutions (2012, Page 6): "Any political engagement with the past entails some kind of appropriation of the archaeological record as material evidence to legitimize an ideological claim... [P]olitical salience of archeological sites has made them targets for destruction (e.g., the Buddhas of Bamyan that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, or the medieval Armenian cemetery at Djulfa dismantled by the Azerbaijani army in 2005). Thus the physicality of the archaeological record lends itself to appropriation not only by modern techniques of memorialization but also by technologies of erasure and forgetting."

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