The claim
a journalist of the newspaper “Asaval-Dasavali” Giorgi Gigauri published a post about gravestones discovered in Kalbajar district on his Facebook account. In his post, Gigauri cites Azerbaijani media that he doesn’t specify and claims that the Armenian gravestone “workshop” was discovered in the Kalbajar district liberated by Azerbaijan. There, they would draw Gregorian crosses, write old dates on them, and afterwards, artificially age them to falsify the history and attempt to display this territory as historical Armenia. The post was uploaded with the photo collage of several gravestones with crosses. As of 15:00, December 2, the post has 2,100 shares.
Rating
Information disseminated by Giorgi Gigauri, as if Armenian workshop, where gravestones were artificially aged to falsify history, was discovered in the Kalbajar district lacks evidence, whereas no photo indicated by the post was taken in Kalbajar district controlled by Azerbaijan: Open sources showcased that one photo indicates a nearby territory of Sevanavank Monastery, while the other one – nearby territory of Kotavank church. The identical information was first disseminated by the Azerbaijani journalist on Twitter.
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