EcoLur
EcoLur received the first reply to the Tsitsernakaberd alarm signal from the very source, Tigran Mangasaryan, the publisher of National Geographic Traveler in Armenia (see “Smashed Lamps and Cut down Trees in Tsitsernakaberd”, 2010.02.11). Tigran Mangasaryan writes: “I want to aware you that a regrettable misunderstanding in my latest article about the fires and the cut trees in the Tsitsernakaberd Park, published in the daily of “Hayoc Ashxarh” and in the web sites, was result of miss information.
After the interview with the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute Hayk Demoyan, I saw the well-arranged works in the park, and could find out that extensive work is being done to recompile and to keep the forest area in a good order. After my second visit to the site I convinced that cut trucks in my photos were the trunks of the dried and damaged trees. I was in the park just at the moment, when the working staff of the museum-institute was cleaning the territory and was burning the branches of the dried trees left after the sanitary cuttings in the previous year. I also found out that the municipality had been informed about these works beforehand. It is already three years that the cut, dried wood is being given to the unproved families of the soldiers which had died during the Karabah war.
I again ask for condescension from the Armenian Genocide Museum for the unwilling spread of unchecked information.”
February 15, 2010