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In Azerbaijan anti-Semite vandals have destroyed entrance to Jewish cemetery
18:34 28/08/2014 >> SOCIETY
In Azerbaijan vandals destroyed the marble slab stationed on the
entrance to the Jewish cemetery in Semaxi, as "Agency for Jewish News"
- AEN (áÇÅÎÔÓÔ×Ï å×ÒÅÊÓËÉÈ îÏ×ÏÓÔÅÊ) reports.
According to the publication, in November 2012 a stone fence was built
around an ancient Jewish cemetery in Azerbaijani town Semaxi which was
initiated and funded by International charity fund of mountain Jews
STMEGI and its head, famous Jewish businessman and philanthropist
German Zakharyaev. This fence solved a number of problems connected
with the Jewish cemetery in Semaxi - it protected the place from pet
walking, from accumulation of household waste as well as attempts of
seizure of cemetery's territory for building private residences.
AEN notes that on the entrance wall of the cemetery there was a black
marble slab which received the main blows by anti-Semite vandals.
"We turned to the executive bodies of Semaxi and to local law
enforcement agencies urging to conduct a thorough investigation of the
act of vandalism on the Jewish cemetery and to find and punish those
responsible," said the head of the STMEGI fund in Azerbaijan Semen
Ikhiilov.
According to the article the Jewish cemetery in Semaxi has a
constructor hired by STMEGI fund who is in charge of controlling the
situation across the cemetery's perimeter, maintaining cleanness on
its territory and preventing acts of vandalism (by calling the
police), says Semen Ikhiilov. However for ensuring this the cemetery
entrance must have a gatehouse where the guard could keep an inventory
and hide from bad weather.
"The executive body of Semaxi has promised to provide the cemetery
with such a lodge. Maybe after that the possibility of acts of
vandalism on the cemetery will reduce," noted Semen Ikhiilov.
In July Armenian blogger manmacloud draw the attention of the readers
to the topic of "Vandalism on the Russian cemetery" in Azerbaijani
forum Disput.az where the author spoke about a fact of intolerance
that took place in Baku cemetery in "tolerant" Azerbaijan were the
local vandals destroyed Russian tombstones. Other users of the forum
told an analogous stories happening for many years in other cities of
Azerbaijan, which makes it impossible to interpret these acts of
deliberate anti-Russian vandalism as mere hooliganism of local
teenagers.
Prior to that, in January 2010 on the cemetery located in Suraxani
region of Baku several thousand tombstones were destroyed by
unidentified people. In September 2007 under the pretext of
construction of a new road in Baku they began demolishing graves in
Narimanov (or Montin) cemetery where predominantly Armenians, Jews and
Russians are buried. On LiveJournal.com website photographs were
shared which clearly showed how cynically and brutally the graves of
Armenians and other Christians were destroyed.
http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2014/08/28/ikhilov/
From: Baghdasarian
18:34 28/08/2014 >> SOCIETY
In Azerbaijan vandals destroyed the marble slab stationed on the
entrance to the Jewish cemetery in Semaxi, as "Agency for Jewish News"
- AEN (áÇÅÎÔÓÔ×Ï å×ÒÅÊÓËÉÈ îÏ×ÏÓÔÅÊ) reports.
According to the publication, in November 2012 a stone fence was built
around an ancient Jewish cemetery in Azerbaijani town Semaxi which was
initiated and funded by International charity fund of mountain Jews
STMEGI and its head, famous Jewish businessman and philanthropist
German Zakharyaev. This fence solved a number of problems connected
with the Jewish cemetery in Semaxi - it protected the place from pet
walking, from accumulation of household waste as well as attempts of
seizure of cemetery's territory for building private residences.
AEN notes that on the entrance wall of the cemetery there was a black
marble slab which received the main blows by anti-Semite vandals.
"We turned to the executive bodies of Semaxi and to local law
enforcement agencies urging to conduct a thorough investigation of the
act of vandalism on the Jewish cemetery and to find and punish those
responsible," said the head of the STMEGI fund in Azerbaijan Semen
Ikhiilov.
According to the article the Jewish cemetery in Semaxi has a
constructor hired by STMEGI fund who is in charge of controlling the
situation across the cemetery's perimeter, maintaining cleanness on
its territory and preventing acts of vandalism (by calling the
police), says Semen Ikhiilov. However for ensuring this the cemetery
entrance must have a gatehouse where the guard could keep an inventory
and hide from bad weather.
"The executive body of Semaxi has promised to provide the cemetery
with such a lodge. Maybe after that the possibility of acts of
vandalism on the cemetery will reduce," noted Semen Ikhiilov.
In July Armenian blogger manmacloud draw the attention of the readers
to the topic of "Vandalism on the Russian cemetery" in Azerbaijani
forum Disput.az where the author spoke about a fact of intolerance
that took place in Baku cemetery in "tolerant" Azerbaijan were the
local vandals destroyed Russian tombstones. Other users of the forum
told an analogous stories happening for many years in other cities of
Azerbaijan, which makes it impossible to interpret these acts of
deliberate anti-Russian vandalism as mere hooliganism of local
teenagers.
Prior to that, in January 2010 on the cemetery located in Suraxani
region of Baku several thousand tombstones were destroyed by
unidentified people. In September 2007 under the pretext of
construction of a new road in Baku they began demolishing graves in
Narimanov (or Montin) cemetery where predominantly Armenians, Jews and
Russians are buried. On LiveJournal.com website photographs were
shared which clearly showed how cynically and brutally the graves of
Armenians and other Christians were destroyed.
http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2014/08/28/ikhilov/
From: Baghdasarian