31 January 2009, 15:00
In Azerbaijan, 50 families refuse to move to houses built in former cemetery
In the capital of Azerbaijan, bureaucrats want to move about 50 families who live in the private houses allegedly subjects to demolition into the new ones built in the territory of destroyed Nariman cemetery.
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"They want to move us into the houses built in the territory of the former Nariman cemetery. Apart from the fact, that we were rejected our monetary compensation for the houses to be demolished, they plan to force us into the houses of strange layout erected on human bones," Elman Alikhanov, a resident of one of the doomed houses, has stated.
"These houses offered to them were worse than the allegedly reserve housing they currently inhabit. Besides, these houses are in the cemetery, where one can see badly buried human remains and bones sticking out of the ground. They were horrified by the prospect of living in the cemetery," said Eldar Zeinalov, Director of the Human Rights Centre of Azerbaijan (HRCA).
Azerbaijani MP Nasib Nasibli has also voiced disagreement with the potential resettlement of citizens into the houses located in the territory of a former cemetery. "I feel sad and cross of the fact of building apartment houses in the cemetery," The "Echo" Agency quotes Mr Nasibli as saying.
