Posts from June 8, 2023

CHW Lead Research Dr. Husik Ghulyan provided expert testimony to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) hearing on Religious Freedom Conditions in Azerbaijan today.[…]

You can now follow CHW’s work on Bluesky. Find us there @caucasushw. For the time being, we will continue to also post our news and[…]

Satellite imagery shows that between Oct. 5, 2023, and April 30, 2024, the 19th century Tandzatap church in Garababa, Zangilan sustained major damage. Most of[…]

[Reposted here from a CIAMS News Article by Ruth Portes] On September 19, 2024, Prof. Adam T. Smith (Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in[…]

CHW today released Monitoring Report #7 on cultural heritage at risk in Nagorno-Karabakh. Our latest monitoring cycle has revealed the greatest number of impacted Armenian[…]

Azerbaijan destroyed the ruins of two Soviet-era schools, and with them the traces of a medieval Armenian past embedded in their walls. In its latest[…]

Satellite imagery dated April 4 shows that the destruction of the Ghazanchetsots cemetery in Shusha is complete. This marks the first destruction of a cemetery[…]

Between December 28, 2023 and April 4, 2024, St. John the Baptist church (S. Hovhannes Mkrtich), a 177 year old landmark in Shusha was destroyed,[…]

On December 4, 2024, CHW released its sixth Monitoring Report, its first since the expulsion of over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh in September 2023. The[…]

DAMAGE ALERT: Between Oct. 5 and Nov. 3, another Armenian cemetery in Shusha/i was damaged. It appears that bulldozers dumped heaps of debris atop the[…]

DAMAGE ALERT: Between Oct. 5 and Nov. 3 bulldozers carved a road through an historic burial ground in Shusha/i known as the Yerevan Gate cemetery.[…]

Satellite monitoring is costly. Since 2021 CHW has kept watch over 270+ sites. With the ethnic cleansing of Karabakh this will ↑ to ≈500. If[…]