This kind of thing has happened all over what is known as the Islamic world.
“Church, Entire Village ‘Erased’ In Azerbaijan’s Recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh,” by Amos Chapple, RFE/RL, April 24, 2024:
A picture of a prayer session inside the St. John the Baptist Church in Nagorno-Karabakh was posted to Twitter by Azerbaijani parliament member Jala Ahmadova in July 2021 to demonstrate what she called an “atmosphere of ethnic and religious tolerance,” after Azerbaijan recaptured Susa, a town known in Armenian as Shushi.
Today that church, built by Armenians in the 19th century, no longer exists.
Images released recently by the monitoring group Caucasus Heritage Watch indicate that the Susa/Shushi church, which was wrapped in scaffolding through much of its time under Azerbaijani control, was demolished in the winter of 2023-24.
Baku retook control of Susa/Shushi from ethnic Armenian forces in November 2020 after launching a war to retake territory internationally recognized as Azerbaijani land.
Two kilometers south of the erased church, satellite images released in April reveal that an entire village appears to have been razed to the ground. Today a large mosque is under construction in the broken soil where a settlement once stood, which was known in Armenian as Karintak and as Dasalti in Azeri.
Husik Ghulyan, a lead researcher at Caucasus Heritage Watch who published the satellite images of Dasalti/Karintak, told RFE/RL, “I think the goal of Azerbaijan in this case was to completely demolish [the settlement] to rebuild a new village for Azerbaijani internally displaced people or other resettlers.”
The researcher said the village’s church, visible to the right of the mosque, “is a legally protected heritage object even by Azerbaijani laws,” which he said, was “probably the reason they left it intact.”
Dasalti/Karintak, which means “under the rock,” in both Azeri and Armenian, takes its name from the massive cliffs that loom above it. The village was the site of several natural springs and had a history of agriculture.
A traveler to the village in the late 1890s described it as a settlement where “the land is fertile, but the crops are scarce and produce little.” Locals, the observer said, “planted wheat, barley, millet, and other crops.” Under Soviet rule the village was home to a silk production plant and a factory making electrical components….
KuhnKat says
Never forget this is Pooties playground.
OLD GUY says
And the UN is charging Israel with war crimes against humanity? The UN and World court and international agencies have their heads so far up Islam’s ass they can’t see day light.
Avenger says
Russia was the only deterrent that kept Azerbaijan and Turkey from totally annihilating Armenia in this last border war. Yeah thank goodness it is “Pooties playground”.
GE says
And you can rest assured that if Hamas/Iran/Hezbollah, et al achieve their goal of obliterating Israel, there will not be a church, synagogue, or shrine left standing. This is what they do.
SC says
Hopefully Israel will make sure Iran ceases to exist before Iran gets its act together.
Mano says
And Israel did arm Azerbaijan
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah. I understand that being short on friends, they were eager to have one, particularly a muslim one like Azerbaijan. But they should have at least stayed neutral in the dispute w/ Armenia
Ernie says
In REAL-politics there are only/just interests . It’s not romantic , but it’s just the way it is .
Mick says
“Nearly 70%” of their arsenal per the Times of Israel, enabling the Shia Azeris to cleanse NK.
Azerbaijan, (as a foe of Iran), informs Israel of nuclear matters, and hosts 30k Jewish citizens.
The Sunni Turks also arm Azerbaijan, in a replay of the 1915 genocidal alliance.
Credit to JW for printing this. Nul points to our MSM.
somehistory says
It the church was “legally protected by their own laws,” then they illegally broke their own laws when they destroyed it. mozlums care nothing for laws, even ones they make up.
Jesus, a cousin of John the Baptist (or Baptizer), said, when talking about satan the devil, “The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy.”
Jesus also said to satan’s children…humans who choose to follow the demon snake…”You are from your father the devil and you wish to do the desires of your father.”
Human snakes doing the stealing, killing and destroying to fulfill all of their father’s desires.
Cato the Elder says
Once you go after another religion’s place of worship, express no shock when your own houses are obliterated.
In fact, expect it. The West needs to grow a pair and respond, like we did with the Siege of Vienna
Mick says
See also BBC world service article of 24Apr24, by Tim Whewell. Russia betrayed their old ally by not intervening and non supply of $200m of arms.
France is the first NATO state to arm Armenia.
A war would pitch French weapons against NATO memberTurkey and Israel..
abu taleb says
Muslims always eventually annihilate non muslims and non Islam religions, rape the women and enslave them until they either die or become muslims.
Blougeoisie says
Where are the protests kids?
Deus Vult says
So what was worse a Soviet Union controlling the Islamic evil or an Islamic evil running riot ?