Religious monuments in Aghdam have been barbarously destroyed over the course of almost 30 years, the chairman of the Independent Standing Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Said Mohamed Abdulla Omair Alghfeli, told Trend News Agency on Friday.
The chairman, who visited Aghdam for the first time Friday, is part of a fact-finding mission into Armenia's crimes in the Azerbaijani territories during the occupation.
"The destruction seen here causes great sorrow. Acts of cultural and religious vandalism are disrespectful to the people's religious feelings and are a gross violation of basic human rights," the chairman said.
"We saw the destroyed villages and settlements, witnessed the violation of property rights. We saw what people who were forced to leave these lands had to go through, what kind of losses they withstood," the head of the commission continued.
On September 24, a delegation of five representatives of the Independent Permanent Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) started its visit to Aghdam. The members of the delegation will first get acquainted with the situation in Aghdam and then head to Terter and Ganja.
