Baku. Konul Kamilgizi – APA. “The situation at Guba mass burial site, which witnessed the genocide of Armenians against Azerbaijanis in 1918, is very bad. If the bones are not covered with glass and necessary measures are not taken, the cemetery will crumble,” Gahraman Agayev, Senior Research Fellow of the Archeology and Ethnography Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, controller-researcher of construction works carried out in the Guba Genocide Memorial Complex, told APA.
He said that Guba cemetery remained unchanged as it was found before. According to him, several landslides have been recorded up to now and some of the bones lost: “But this year the bones must be absolutely covered with glass. But when will it be covered? Now is September and weather grows cooler. If the bones are not covered with glass and necessary measures are not taken, the cemetery will be destroyed. We are preserving the cemetery with the help of the regional executive authorities and the institute with primitive methods. How long will it last? No traces of Guba mass burial site will be left unless the bones are covered with glass, measures are taken. We can not preserve it any more. No work has been done in the cemetery within 6 years. The monument is exposed to wind and rain. The situation is very hard,” he said.
Agayev underlined that the cemetery is the only genocide monument openly showing to the world community the genocide committed by Armenians against the Azerbaijanis.
“Sometimes Armenians claim that not Azerbaijanis, but Armenians were buried there. If this cemetery crumbles, Armenians will say that a complex was built, the cemetery was covered, because Armenians were buried there,” he said.
The researcher said construction at the Genocide Memorial Complex has been completed. He said the Genocide Memorial Complex will be opened soon.
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