Posts from June 13, 2024

Amidst reports of the destruction of Armenian religious sites in the city of Stepanakert/Khankendi, CHW today reported that the Armenian Genocide memorial in Stepanakert/Khankendi has[…]

Using Sentinel 2 satellite imagery, CHW can confirm reports of the destruction of the Holy Mother of God Church (Surb Astvatsatsin), consecrated by the Armenian[…]

In April 2024, CHW reported the destruction of St. John the Baptist Church, a 19th century Armenian religious center and cultural landmark that had stood[…]

As CHW prepares for a new spring satellite monitoring mission over Karabakh, we’ve updated our dashboard to enable user searches of documented destruction, damage and[…]

CHW has released a new story map calling attention to excavations at The “Red Cross” Church of Bina/Tumi. Using an array of satellite platforms, CHW[…]

The 17th century Holy Savior Monastery located near Təpəkənd/Tonashen in Azerbaijan’s Aghdara District has been damaged. Between October 2024 and August 2025 most of the[…]

Today CHW released its eighth report on Armenian cultural heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh. The report documents the results of two rounds of satellite-based monitoring of over[…]

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[…]

DAMAGE ALERT: Construction in Shusha/i has damaged the archaeological remains of the 1838 Meghretsots Holy Mother of God church. A Nov. 3 satellite image shows[…]