Cultural genocide

200 Armenian churches and monasteries on the territory of Turkey were burned and some 2150 ruined in the beginning of XX century.

According to UNESCO information for 1974, 464 of 913 Armenian buildings were wipe off the earth, 252 - ruined, 197 needs general repair.

As for Azerbaijan, 21 Armenian buildings, among which churches, monasteries, chapels, Armenian cemeteries were destroyed and burned since 1998.

THE RAPE OF ANI

This was not an attempt to make an archaeological excavation - no archaeologists were present and there was no inspection made of the removed material: it was simply dumped into tipper trucks and taken away. Most of the excavating was done using heavy machinery including bulldozers and shovel excavators.