PHOTOS. Occupied Hadrut, Our Days. Barbarians are Destroying Our History

“Hadrut De-occupation” NGO has published photographs on its Facebook page taken from the Azerbaijani-occupied Hadrut, along with a statement: “According to the first Soviet census of 1926, the population of the Hadrut region was 25,247, of which 24,685 (98%) were Armenians. The region had 93 Armenian churches and monasteries, most of which were built during the Middle Ages, during the Armenian Kingdom of Ani (9th-11th centuries), the Khachen Armenian state (11th-16th centuries), and the Dizak Armenian melikdom (17th-18th centuries). There were also monuments from the Armenian Emirate period (7th-9th centuries), as well as from Armenian princes under Caucasian Albania (5th-7th centuries), and temples from the pagan and Christian periods of Greater Armenia (2nd century BC - 5th century AD). Almost every church was located near ancient Armenian cemeteries. Today, Hadrut is in the hands of barbarians who have violently displaced the indigenous people and are disgracefully destroying historical monuments.”