Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   24 April 2024

Armenian cemetery found in Van

Armenian cemetery found in Van

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 3, ARMENPRESS: During the construction of a school in Gevash (historical Vostan) Province of Van a mass cemetery was found, where skulls and bones came out of the soil surface. As reported by Armenpress, quoting the Turkish news website haberx.com, these skulls and bones have been found a year ago and still remain in the construction site. The website states that the schoolchildren are scared and avoid of going to school. One of the teachers quit the teaching in that school because of the bones.

One of the inhabitants of the Province note that these bones might belong to the Armenians, who had been massacred during the Armenian Genocide in 1915. He said that it is unacceptable to educate children in such a school. “A mass massacre occurred here. The skulls show that these people were tortured and buried one on the other”, - said the representative of the Gevash Province.








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