"Aravot”: Who and Why Overthrew the Monument to Genocide Victims?

On April 24, 1990, a monument has been erected in memory of the victims of Great Armenian Genocide in the fortress of town of Berd, in a location called Soran, where also the history museum of Berd town is. It’s written on the monument that a Genocide memorial is going to be built there. Berd residents informed the newspaper, that recently an unknown person or people overthrew the monument. Being at the spot, the journalist saw that the monument is standing again. Though the back of the monument has been dirty; it’s obvious it has been overthrown to the ground. The bases of the monument are destroyed, the base tiles- broken.
In order to restore the overthrown monument, green ground-moles have been installed under it.
Rafik Muradyan, the head of the Tavush regional service of historical reserve-museums and protection of historical environment, condemning that barbarism also informed that the monument isn’t registered at them as a memorial.