Azerbaijani cemeteries, Shusha and surrounding villages
Azerbaijani cemeteries in Shusha and surrounding villages record the Muslim urban and rural life interrupted by Armenian capture in 1992. During Armenian control, many such sites were abandoned, damaged, overgrown or partially destroyed. As with Armenian cemeteries under Azerbaijani control, the issue is more than preservation aesthetics: graves carry family names, dates and proof of belonging. Damage to them becomes an attack on a community's claim to have lived there. The cemetery category should be read alongside the Armenian quarter and churches of Shusha. The city contains overlapping losses, and each side tends to foreground the stones of its own dead while treating the other's cemeteries as peripheral. A balanced atlas cannot do that.
Azerbaijani cemeteries in Shusha and surrounding villages record the Muslim urban and rural life interrupted by Armenian capture in 1992. During Armenian control, many such sites were abandoned, damaged, overgrown or partially destroyed. As with Armenian cemeteries under Azerbaijani control, the issue is more than preservation aesthetics: graves carry family names, dates and proof of belonging. Damage to them becomes an attack on a community's claim to have lived there. The cemetery category should be read alongside the Armenian quarter and churches of Shusha. The city contains overlapping losses, and each side tends to foreground the stones of its own dead while treating the other's cemeteries as peripheral. A balanced atlas cannot do that.