Mourn Armenia! Mourn Armenian nation and mourn world civilization!

Julfa in March of 2006. Received on 14 March 2006 from the Armenian Church of Tehran, Iran via e-mail.

The photo you are looking at was taken in March 2006 and shows what is left from a place where only ten years ago thousands of medieval head stones (khachkars) existed. Stones, beautifully carved with hand tools; and head stones in memory of people buried in this place.

Jugha just a couple of decades ago…

This is, or I should say this was, Jugha (now Julfa), an Armenian cemetery that dates to the 8th century. A registered UNESCO landmark, this world wonder is forever lost thanks to the vandalistic policy of the Azerbaijani government.

Azerbaijani soldiers caught on tape cleansing the last monuments of Old Jugha in December of 2005

Woe to us, woe to us, woe to us…

One of the few khachkars that will never be destroyed. This one is in an open museum in St. Echmiadzin. Thousands of similar monuments are forever gone thanks to the Azerbaijani government.