Two convicted for desecrating WWII monument to Azeris
SEVASTOPOL - Two men have been convicted for partly destroying a
monument in the Ukrainian town of Sevastopol honoring Azeris who
fell in battles for the liberation of Crimea from the Nazis.
Ethnic Armenian Eduard Arakelyan and Andrey Ganin were handed down
three-year jail sentences, according to Rahim Humbatov, the leader
of the Azerbaijani community in the Ukrainian region of Crimea.
During the trial Arakelyan extended an apology to the Azeris,
saying he regretted his actions.
It was ascertained that Arakelyan and Ganin did not plan to sell
the parts removed from the memorial as scrap metal but committed an
act of revenge.
The memorial eternalizing Azeri fighters against fascism, which was
erected in the 1970s, was destroyed last October. Azerbaijan’s
embassy in Ukraine earlier issued a protest to Ukraine’s Foreign
Ministry expressing concern over the act of vandalism. The monument
was restored this May.*
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