Azerbaijan's aggressions violate not only international law but also a global value system that champions religious freedom.
Last September, the Amaras Monastery, one of Christianity's oldest religious complexes and a sacred site of the Armenian Apostolic Church, was seized by Azerbaijan as it invaded the self-governing Armenian enclave of Artsakh, widely known as Nagorno-Karabakh. The attack violated a 2020 agreement between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia that ended an earlier war and quickly compelled the panicked flight of the enclave's 120,000 Armenians.
In the Azeri exclave of Nakhchivan, which at one time had a significant Armenian population but now has none, Azerbaijan has destroyed an estimated 98 percent of Armenian cultural heritage, including churches, cemeteries, and monasteries.Azerbaijan in general denies the Armenian identity of area churches, cemeteries, and monasteries, ascribing them to a historical group called 'Caucasian Albanians' to whom Azeris tie their own historical roots.
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