Mount Ararat with the historic Khor Virap monastery visible at center-left

Khachkars

Researcher Steven Sim used declassified commercial satellite imagery from the IKONOS and QuickBird platforms to document the disappearance of the Jugha khachkars between 2003 and 2005. His findings, published in the Journal of Genocide Research in 2005, provided peer-reviewed satellite documentation of the Azerbaijani state's organized demolition of the site.

Researcher Steven Sim used declassified commercial satellite imagery from the IKONOS and QuickBird platforms to document the disappearance of the Jugha khachkars between 2003 and 2005. His findings, published in the *Journal of Genocide Research* in 2005, provided peer-reviewed satellite documentation of the Azerbaijani state's organized demolition of the site.

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