June 24, 2024

"[EXCERPT] CHW today released Monitoring Report #7 on cultural heritage at risk in Nagorno-Karabakh. Our latest monitoring cycle has revealed the greatest number of impacted Armenian cultural sites since we began monitoring in 2021: 6 newly destroyed sites and 7 facing critical threats to their survival.

With the collapse of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic in September 2023, we added over 180 sites into our monitoring routine. A total of 452 sites monitored this cycle, and our database continues to expand. Since CHW began, we have assessed 57 sites as destroyed, damaged, or threatened.

In this cycle, the impacts cluster in Shusha/Shushi district as well as in Kalbajar/Karvachar (villages of Zar/Tsar, Chirag/Chragh, and Gozlu/Vaghuhas). Also impacted: Khojaly/Askeran (Garabulag/Aknaghbyur village) and Khojavend/Martuni (Chartar and Hunarli/Tsakuri villages).

Preparations for COP29 may have a grave impact on Karabakh’s Armenian cultural heritage. Massive infrastructure and redevelopment projects are threatening, damaging, or destroying cultural sites in the path of omnipresent earth movers. Learn more in our report and in the article released today on Hyperallergic."

For more information: caucasusheritage.cornell.edu/?p=1648