Posted on 11/28/2020 11:13:14 AM PST by xomething
A video circulating on social media this week appears to show Azerbaijani soldiers desecrating Armenian graves in Nagorno-Karabakh, adding to growing accusations of similar crimes.
The footage surfaced on Thursday amid reports by Armenian state media that Azeri armed forces have allegedly “destroyed, damaged or desecrated” several Armenian historical and cultural monuments, including “the graves of Armenian soldiers,” in the disputed region in recent days.
Uploaded to the video-sharing app TikTok and published by the Armenian news site Panorama.am, the footage appears to show two Azerbaijani soldiers kicking an Armenian headstone until it falls over. The two men are dressed in army fatigues and one carries a rifle slung across his back. The tombstone they desecrate bears the image of a cross, indicating that the gravesite is Christian. Armenia is majority Christian, while Azerbaijan is majority Muslim. Additional graves visible around the two soldiers also appear to have been damaged.
“The incident reportedly took place in Karvachar, which is known in Azeri as Kalbajar; this district was recently handed over to the Azerbaijani Armed Forces earlier this week,” Al-Masdar News reported on November 26.
The two sides agreed to a Russian-brokered peace deal on November 9 to halt fighting over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Clashes over the territory – ruled by Armenian-majority separatists since 1991 but legally belonging to Azerbaijan –began on September 27. Under the terms of the peace agreement, Armenia was forced to surrender some territory it held outside of Nagorno-Karabakh’s borders, including the western Kalbajar district where Thursday’s video footage was reportedly filmed.
A report by Armenia’s state-run Armenpress confirmed on Thursday that Azeri soldiers have recently desecrated Armenian gravesites in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, seeming to support the video’s authenticity...
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Okay, place your bets. Who thinks this is the first place Joe Biden will send troops off to die in to prove what a tough guy he is if he is somehow successful in stealing the election?
The Armenians lost because they were unable to counter the sophisticated Israeli made drones that the Azerbaijanis deployed. Why Israel decided to side with the Azerbaijanis is not clear. It is also not clear just who were the personnel directing those drones. However it did demonstrate that drones, some as small as seagulls and armed with precisely guided weaponry are a weapon system that armor and probably ships have no good defense or prospect of surviving a battle. Prescient military people are beginning to understand that if you can be seen, heard or sensed in a modern battle, you can be and will be killed by someone perhaps thousands of miles away that you will never see. However there are many “battleship” admirals and generals that will force a large sacrifice of blood before they accept that their cherished weapon systems are obsolete.
I have seen the vid’s of the desecration by the Azerbaijanis, also decapitations, cutting off Armenians feet, skinnings. Such nice people to post their victory vid’s on-line.
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