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ARMENIAN CEMETERY FOUND IN VAN
15:00, 3 October, 2013
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 3, ARMENPRESS: During the construction of a school in
Gevash (historical Vostan) Province of Van a mass cemetery was found,
where skulls and bones came out of the soil surface. As reported
by Armenpress, quoting the Turkish news website haberx.com, these
skulls and bones have been found a year ago and still remain in the
construction site. The website states that the schoolchildren are
scared and avoid of going to school. One of the teachers quit the
teaching in that school because of the bones.
One of the inhabitants of the Province note that these bones might
belong to the Armenians, who had been massacred during the Armenian
Genocide in 1915. He said that it is unacceptable to educate children
in such a school. "A mass massacre occurred here. The skulls show
that these people were tortured and buried one on the other", -
said the representative of the Gevash Province.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/735312/armenian-cemetery-found-in-van.html
15:00, 3 October, 2013
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 3, ARMENPRESS: During the construction of a school in
Gevash (historical Vostan) Province of Van a mass cemetery was found,
where skulls and bones came out of the soil surface. As reported
by Armenpress, quoting the Turkish news website haberx.com, these
skulls and bones have been found a year ago and still remain in the
construction site. The website states that the schoolchildren are
scared and avoid of going to school. One of the teachers quit the
teaching in that school because of the bones.
One of the inhabitants of the Province note that these bones might
belong to the Armenians, who had been massacred during the Armenian
Genocide in 1915. He said that it is unacceptable to educate children
in such a school. "A mass massacre occurred here. The skulls show
that these people were tortured and buried one on the other", -
said the representative of the Gevash Province.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/735312/armenian-cemetery-found-in-van.html