To Prevent Cultural Genocide

[bell-the-cat]

Thanks as always for the clarification and insight that article was unable to convey (wow amazing pic!)

Thank "Google Earth".

The river of course is the border between Turkey and Armenia.

I think the satellite photo was taken in 2003.

If you look at photo 10 at http://www.virtualani.org/quarry/ that shows some of the gravestones that are located just below the rubble of the quarry shown in photo 7. They are Christian graves - they are orientated east-west - and there are probably a lot more hidden under the earth.

[chinchilla]

Poor Gyumri. That earthquake turned it into a "typically Armenian" city: barren and ruined. And of course half of its former inhabitants are now in the diaspora, especially here in California.

It's too bad about the borders being closed or else Armenians could study Ani as well as its surroundings freely. However, I once read an interview by Hetq where they interviewed an American specialist in architecture, and she said that if the border were opened, the "Gyumri mafiosi" are ready to do to Gyumri what has been done to Yerevan (she didn't exactly say it that way, but she probably meant it).

Here it is: http://www.hetq.am/eng/culture/0704-armenia.html

And perhaps those Armenian lobbies in Washington should lobby to have Armenia remove the quarry...