Nearly one thousand educational institutions in Karabakh ruined by Armenians

Armenians destroyed a total of 993 educational institutions in Azerbaijan’s Karabakh and East Zangazur regions during the years of occupation from 1991 to 2020.

Armenia inflicted enormous damage to the Azerbaijani culture during the same period, Deputy Education Minister of Azerbaijan, Firudin Gurbanov, in a conference “Architectural Heritage of Karabakh and East Zangazur. Problems of restoration, protection, and use”, Report informs.

“There were about 750 cultural monuments in Karabakh and East Zangazur. As many as 74 mosques, over 800 cemeteries, and 993 educational institutions were destroyed in these territories,” Gurbanov said.

Armenia occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s sovereign territory in a war that ensued from 1991 to 1994 in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani military liberated those territories in a counter-attack occupation, code-named “Iron Fist”, in the autumn of 2020.

During the war from September 27 through November 9 in 2020, ten children, aged between 6 and 10, were killed and fourteen injured in Azerbaijan by the Armenian forces.

At least 300,000 students studying at 1,150 schools were not able to continue their education due to the Armenian missile strikes, which hit 17 schools in the district of Aghdam, and 14 in the district of Tartar, which saw one of the heaviest bombardments in Europe since World War 2.