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Posted 28 February 2017 - 11:54 AM

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Politics 11:00 28/02/2017 Region
Azerbaijan’s former president Ayaz Mutallibov: Chingiz Mustafayev’s materials prove betrayal of national interests

Politicians, who spread ideas about Russia’s role in “Karabakh’s loss” and that Russia is allegedly behind the Armenians, “scare the Azerbaijanis and are engaged in sabotage,” Azerbaijan’s former president Ayaz Mutallibov told the Azerbaijani information portal Avrasiya.org stating that if Azerbaijan “builds the right politics,” the Russians “will be on its side,” which will result in “peaceful resolution of the problems in Karabakh.”

Mutallibov remembered that as a result of the “right politics,” “Operation Ring” was organized, during which inhabitants of villages throughout the whole perimeter of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast – ethnic Armenians – were deported under the pretext of “expulsion of Armenian militants.”

Regarding the traditional question for Ayaz Mutallibov about the Aghdam events, he noted that the tragedy could have been avoided, if there was no battle for power, which disturbed him.

“The help was not sent to Khojaly, but to another direction. Khojaly was left without any help. Unfortunately, fighting for power, they had left the front without leadership,” Mutallibov stated.

He also answered to the question regarding the videos taped by Chingiz Mustafayev. The videos “caused unnecessary dispute” in the Azerbaijani society again.

“I am aware of Chingiz’s videos. They prove that our traitors were among the participants of the Khojaly massacre,” he said adding that he had no opportunity “to analyze comprehensively Chigiz’s materials.”

In the former president’s opinion, it is a “betrayal of national interests.” Summing up, Ayaz Mutallibov said: “I believe the war will start soon.”

http://www.panorama....tafayev/1735637



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Posted 02 March 2017 - 11:08 AM

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Politics 17:14 01/03/2017 World
Arab newspaper: Azerbaijan actively speculates on Aghdam events in order to distract attention from pogroms of Armenians

Embassy of Armenia in Syria published an article in the influential Arab newspaper Al-Watan presenting Azerbaijan’s manipulations and falsifications about Aghdam events. 

It is noted that in early 1992, Azerbaijan used Khlojaly in order to fire Karabakh’s capital Stepanakert. As a result, houses, schools, hospitals, and buildings of state institutions were destroyed. The Azerbaijani authorities turned Khojlay into a firing point closing access to Karabakh’s only airport, through which the population was provided with food and medicine.

Moreover, Azerbaijan used Khojaly as a firing point for shelling the nearby Armenian-populated villages. Therefore, the neutralization of Khojaly’s firing point by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Defense Army forces was a justified measure from the point of view of saving the civilians.

Following the start of the military operation on the neutralization of the firing point, the civilian population used the humanitarian corridor left by the Armenian side in order to move to Aghdam, which was under Azerbaijan’s control at that time. However, the population faced bloody events there.

Therefore, the authors emphasize that it is obvious that the Azerbaijani authorities failed the evacuation of the civilian population from the settlement and that they are responsible for the death of hundreds of people in Aghdam.

“Since then, Baku adopted the strategy of falsifying all the facts and materials of that humanitarian catastrophe and disseminating hatred and horror towards the Armenians among the representatives of the international community,” the article reads.

Falsifying photos is one of Azerbaijan’s most common methods. The authorities use photos of the Kosovo War, victims of 1983 earthquake in Turkey, poor children in Afghanistan, as well as corpses of Hamas militants in Palestine presenting them as Azerbaijanis, who were killed by the Armenians.

“We all have to work on raising the awareness of the international community in order to expose Azerbaijan’s lies. The aim of the active propaganda of ‘Khojaly events’ is to distract the international community’s attention from the pogroms of the Armenians in Sumgait, Baku, Kirovabad, and other Azerbaijani settlements, ethnic cleansing of the Armenians in 28 villages, as well as tragic events in Maragha,” the authors note.
They also highlight that the Azerbaijani side tries to distort Armenia’s international image speculating on the memory of the civilians, who became victims to internal political intrigues and struggle for power in Azerbaijan.

The real perpetrator of the tragedy is Azerbaijan’s Popular Front led by Abulfaz Elchibey. He became the country’s president after the Aghdam events and started to speculate on those events in order to get rid of the former president, Ayaz Mutallibov.

Therefore, Azerbaijan’s political and military leadership is responsible for the death of the civilians in Aghdam.
“The Azerbaijani side cannot answer to simple questions yet. Why the corpses of the victims were found near Aghdam, which was under the control of the Azerbaijani forces? Why there was no organized evacuation of the civilian population despite the Armenians’ warnings on the adio?” the authors wonder.

It is also noted that in subsequent years, the civil rights activists and journalists, who attempted to reveal the truth, were either arrested under the pretext of collaborating with the Security Services of Armenia or died under unclear circumstances. That is why nobody dares to demand that the authorities reveal the truth.
Summing up, the authors note that Azerbaijan continues to disseminate intolerance and armenophobia in the society, and that politics makes the dialogue difficult between the two nations.

On February 26, 1992, during the Karabakh war, around 200 to 300 people (according to Human Rights Watch, and 600 according to the version propagated by Azerbaijan) were killed in unknown circumstances near the city of Aghdam. They were deliberately withheld by the Azerbaijani authorities in the midst of the military actions. The authorities of Azerbaijan intentionally kept the population in the village for months by force and did not evacuate them in order to use them as human shields later as the village was one of the firing points for shooting at the blockaded Stepanakert (among five others).

The residents of Khojaly, coming out through the humanitarian corridor the self-defense forces of the NKR had left open, freely passed more than 10 km and reached the Aghdam city controlled by the Azerbaijani troops. Later, dead bodies of the villagers were foundnot far from the positions of Azerbaijani troops. The exact death toll remains unknown as the official Baku publishes data contradicting each other. Parliamentary Commission investigating the tragic death of the civilians at Aghdam city was dissolved by the order of Heydar Aliyev, the investigative materials are kept secret.

http://alwatan.sy/wp...7/02/259511.pdf

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Posted 26 February 2019 - 09:42 AM

Panorama, Armenia
Feb 25 2019
 
 
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Politics 19:27 25/02/2019 Armenia
Anzhela Elibekova: February 26 appears to be a good occasion to test Azerbaijanis readiness for peace

February 26 marks the anniversary of Khojaly events and the date is a good occasion to test the readiness of the Azerbaijani public for peace, Anzhela Elibekova, expert in the South Caucasus told Panorama.am during an interview. Over the past few days Elibekova has explored Azerbaijani media reports and has come to conclusion that an active anti-Armenian propaganda is conducted despite commitments to prepare the people for peace.

“They announce about readiness to get prepared for peace, yet at the same time continue ramping up anti-Armenian sentiments among the public. The peace agenda thus appears to be fake,” Elibekova said. The expert pointed to the intensity of anti-Armenian events happening both in Azerbaijan and abroad that has been the case with previous years as well. The hatred is reinforced by statements from officials and experts of various caliber that often-spread disinformation, hatred and insults.

During the time of working at the Public Relations and Information Centre SNC, Elibekova along with number of experts initiated the “Xocali.net” project that documents the real events in the beginning of the 90s and exposes Azerbaijani falsification and distortion of facts.

«A database of facts was created with documentaries and a special website “Xocali.net” that should be presented to the Armenian and Azerbaijani public as well as the international community. This should be done first of all through diplomatic channels in order to prevent Azerbaijani propaganda activities in different countries - be those protests, or adoption of various resolutions,” Elibekova said.

“Xocali.net” website discloses Azerbaijani side’s mass falsifications concerning the tragedy, in which peaceful inhabitants of the village of Khojaly were killed. The website features many materials, including photo and video, exposing the activities of Azerbaijani Propaganda Machine that had been misleading the international community over the death of peaceful citizens for many years.

This year a small group of experts have created a new publication titled “What happened in Khojaly” available in three languages that provides information about Khojaly in Q/A format and discloses Azerbaijani side’s mass falsifications concerning the tragic events.
“The tragic events definitely took place on the night of February 25-26 claiming human lives. The tragic cannot go unpunished and the real perpetrators should be held responsible instead of those who were blamed or wanted to be seen as the assailants,” the authors of the publication say.

Some inconsistencies about the Khojaly event disseminated by the Azerbaijani propaganda can be found here. http://xocali.net/en/11-q.html

https://www.panorama...ibekova/2077625


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Posted 05 March 2019 - 10:48 AM

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March 4 2019
 
 

Azerbaijani propaganda attempt backfires in most humiliating way

 
 
 
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YEREVAN, MARCH 4, ARMENPRESS. Yet another Azerbaijani state sanctioned attempt of propaganda has backfired in the most embarrassing way possible. The Azerbaijani embassy in Iran hosted a photo exhibition regarding the Khojaly events, but one of the photo exhibits on the wall didn’t have anything to do with Khojaly – it was a more than 100 year old photo depicting a dying Armenian woman during the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Apparently the Azerbaijanis were so much in a hurry to collect unrelated photographs depicting death that they didn’t even know what they are doing.  This bizarre gaffe once more shows that the Azerbaijani government is carrying out a state-level fake propaganda on the Khojaly events, but this time their hasty attempt to choose a photo that would mislead the visitors ended in embarrassment. Seems like they simply wanted a photograph depicting distress, pain, death or any kind of misfortune regardless from what era.

The story was revealed by an Iranian media outlet, placing Azerbaijani Ambassador to Iran Buniad Huseynov in an embarrassing situation.

According to Iran-based Araks Armenian weekly, the Iranian Azariha online platform debunked and voiced about the incident by studying the photo.

“An unusual incident has taken place during this year’s photo exhibition organized in Tehran, that was organized by the Baku embassy and which was attended by the country’s ambassador and several former Iranian diplomats who have served in Baku. What’s unusual is that several photos exhibited at this gallery are stolen photos, which actually date back to the times of the Armenian Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire, which the government of Baku has presented to be Khojaly victims,” the Iranian media outlet said in an article entitled “The Lying Shepherd”.

Azariha added that a photo depicting a dead woman in a dry desert has been included in the exhibition, whereas Khojaly is located in a semi-mountainous cold and snow-covered area between Aghdam and Askeran.

“Studies of the photo showed that it depicts the forced deportation of Armenians to Syria, Aleppo in the Ottoman Empire: the photo has been taken from the US Library of Congress,” Azariha said.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan

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Posted 05 March 2019 - 11:01 AM

Azerbaijan Enlists Infamous Congressman

            Hastings in its Anti-Armenian Propaganda

            By Harut Sassounian

            Publisher, The California Courier

            www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com

Cong. Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.) is the latest transmitter of Azeri
propaganda. He issued a statement on February 25, 2019, which he
entered in the Congressional Record, accusing Armenians of killing 613
Azeri men, women, and children on Feb. 26, 1992, in the Khojaly
village of Azerbaijan during the height of the Artsakh (Karabagh) war.
Human Rights Watch placed the number of Azeri dead at 161.
Nevertheless, even the single loss of life is regrettable be it Azeri
or Armenian. Cong. Hastings, a member of Azerbaijan Congressional
Caucus, called the alleged killings “the Khojaly Massacre.”

These killings are controversial with Armenians and Azeris blaming
each other for the deaths. In recent years, the government of
Azerbaijan has made these killings a cause celebre, organizing
observances in various countries and accusing Armenians not only of
committing a massacre, but a genocide. These propaganda observances
are funded by what is known as “caviar diplomacy,” meaning that
Azerbaijan bribes government officials around the world to block
decisions critical of Azerbaijan or adopt resolutions in its favor.

It is ironic that while Azerbaijan describes the alleged killing of
613 Azeris a genocide, it shamelessly denies the actual genocide of
1.5 million Armenians from 1915 to 1923.

On March 3, 1997, the Armenian Foreign Ministry circulated a statement
to members of the United Nations General Assembly and Security
Council, rejecting the statement issued by Azerbaijan on February 22,
1997 on “the Khojalu event.” Armenia quoted the words of the then
President of Azerbaijan Ayaz Mutalibov who had stated that the
Azerbaijani National Front “actively obstructed and actually prevented
the exodus of the local [Azeri] population through the mountain
passages specifically left open by Karabakh Armenians to facilitate
the flight of the civilian population.” Mutalibov had made that
statement in the days following “the Khojalu event” in an interview
with Czech journalist Dana Mazalova published in the April 2, 1992
issue of the Russian newspaper Nizavisimaya Gazeta.

By organizing such propaganda observances, Azerbaijan’s officials have
found a convenient way of countering the mass murder of Armenians in
the Azeri towns of Sumgait (Feb. 28, 1988), Gyanja (November 1988),
and Baku (January 1990) as well as the Armenian genocide by Ottoman
Turkey.

Azerbaijan could not have found a more infamous member of U.S.
Congress to carry out its propaganda war against Armenia. Prior to
becoming a member of Congress, Hastings served as a United States
District or Federal Judge from 1979 to 1989, at which time he was
impeached and removed from office!

According to Wikipedia, “In 1981, [Judge] Hastings was charged with
accepting a $150,000 bribe in exchange for a lenient sentence and a
return of seized assets for 21 counts of racketeering by Frank and
Thomas Romano, and of perjury in his testimony about the case. In
1983, he was acquitted by a jury after his alleged co-conspirator,
William Borders, refused to testify in court, resulting in a jail
sentence for Borders.”

“In 1988, the Democratic-controlled United States House of
Representatives took up the case, and Hastings was impeached for
bribery and perjury by a vote of 413–3. He was then convicted on
October 20, 1989, by the United States Senate, becoming the sixth
federal judge in the history of the United States to be removed from
office by the Senate. The Senate, in two hours of roll calls, voted on
11 of the 17 articles of impeachment. It convicted Hastings of eight
of the 11 articles. The vote on the first article was 69 for and 26
opposed….”

Cong. Hastings was disgraced for the second time when a staff member
of the Helsinki Commission for which he was the Chairman, accused him
of inappropriate sexual behavior. The Roll Call newspaper reported on
December 8, 2017 that the U.S. Treasury Department secretly paid the
staffer $220,000 to settle an alleged sexual harassment case against
Cong. Hastings.

Winsome Packer, the staff member of the congressional commission,
stated in a written document that Cong. Hastings touched her, made
unwanted sexual advances, and threatened her job. In her lawsuit,
Packer stated “that Hastings repeatedly asked to stay at her apartment
or to visit her hotel room. Packer also said he frequently hugged her,
and once asked her what kind of underwear she was wearing,” according
to Roll Call. Cong. Hastings denied the accusation.

Finally, it appears that Cong. Hastings has maintained extensive
contacts with the BGR Group, a major U.S. firm that is paid $50,000 a
month to lobby for Azerbaijan in Washington.

Under the federal FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) laws, every
lobbying firm has to register with the U.S. Justice Department,
disclosing the contract signed with the foreign entity. More
importantly, the lobbying firm’s employees are required to report to
the Justice Department every contact they make with outsiders on
behalf of their clients, whether by email, phone call, or personal
meeting.

For example, during the six-month period of December 1, 2017 to May
30, 2018, BGR reported contacting congressional offices hundreds of
times. Each time the subject matter was listed as “U.S.-Azerbaijan
Relations.” Cleverly, BGR had hidden the name of the Congressman or
Senator, mentioning only his or her staff member’s name.

Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) conducted a lengthy
investigation to identify the names of the Congress members for whom
these staff members worked. The ANCA investigation disclosed that on
Nov. 17, 2017, Feb. 27, March 5, March 12, April 30, May 22, May 23,
and May 30, 2018 BGR lobbyists emailed Tom Carnes, a staff member of
Cong. Hastings. BGR also had a meeting with Tom Carnes on May 30,
2018. In addition, on May 22, 2018, lobbyists from BGR e-mailed
Susannah Jackson of Cong. Hastings office. In addition, on Nov. 2,
2017, Rob Mangas, Tim Hutchinson, K. Laurie McKay, Killoran Long, and
Albert Wynn on behalf of a lobbying firm for Turkey, Greenberg
Traurig, had discussions with Lale Morrison from the office of Cong.
Hastings regarding U.S.-Turkish relations. Finally, on Oct. 27, 2017,
Lydia Borland on behalf of another lobbying firm for Turkey, LB
International Solutions, LLC, met with Lale Morrison from the office
of Cong. Hastings regarding U.S.-Turkey relations.

No wonder that Cong. Hastings was given the low grade of D and D plus
in recent years by the ANCA for not supporting various Armenian issues
in Congress.

Azerbaijan has tried to cover up its crimes against Armenians and
human rights violations of its deprived citizens by bribing foreign
officials around the world and blaming others for its own wrongdoing.



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Posted 01 April 2019 - 09:07 AM

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Famous Lithuanian historian authors article on genocidal policy of Azerbaijan against Armenians

 
 
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YEREVAN, MARECH 29, ARMENPRESS. The article of famous Lithuanian historian Algis Kasperavičius headlined “Why call it genocide, when it is not one?” was published in http://www.bernardinai.ltnews website . ARMENPRESS reports the author refers to the false claims of Azerbaijanis about the so-called “Khojaly genocide”, as well as the genocidal policy against Armenians in Azerbaijan and the lobbyist activities of Azerbaijanis in Lithuania and other  countries.  

The article runs as follows,

“Recently, on February 25, 2019, Irma Ąžuolė (it is probably a nickname) published an article Unbelievable: Genocide in the Modern World the title of which perfectly reflects the reality. Genocides are still going on in African states - Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo (it is the official name of the state), Sudan and also in the Middle East - Iraq and Syria, where the so called ISIS and other islamic extremist groups have massively killed local Christians, yazidis and Shiite Muslims. Middle Eastern Christians whose ancestors were the first to accept Jesus Christ’s teaching became martyrs as well.

They had to experience another genocide a hundred years later after surviving the first one. At the beginning of the 20th century, between 1915 and 1923, Turkish authorities organized massacres against Christians in Asia Minor and the Middle East. In the latter, massacres were not as massive as in Asia Minor. Felix Koneczny, a Polish historian and philosopher, who was also a professor in Vilnius University at the beginning of the 20th century, wrote the following in his book Byzantine Civilization: “In Asia Minor (i. e. present Turkey) there lived 9 millions of Muslims and 3 millions of Christians. 10 years later, Christians were almost killed off. In 1923, the greatest countries recognized the whole Asia Minor as a legit territory of Ottoman Empire.” With a silent permission and support of the greatest countries, Christianity was almost destroyed. However, Christian minorities remained in Arab countries - Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. In the latter two, they still experience the horror of genocide. A forgotten thinker of the 19th century once wrote, that history repeats itself. It is a tragedy if it happens the first time and a comedy when it repeats itself. Unfortunately, for the Middle Eastern Christians, the second time was a tragedy as well.

In the article, I. Ąžuolė calls tragic events in Khodjali village a genocide, committed in Nagorno-Karabakh during the war between local Armenians and Azerbaijani forces. On February 26, 1992, Nagorno-Karabakh forces began a military operation near Khodjali, where, according to I. Ąžuolė, on 940 km2 there lived 7 thousand of Muslims, mostly Azerbaijanis. It is unbelievable for a village to have such a huge area, but it is probably a proofreading mistake. The main purpose of Armenians attacking was to suppress Azerbaijani artillery that at that time had already attacked Stepanakert and the airport nearby. After the assault that ended with the capture of Khodjali, most civilians, including women and children, were found killed 12 km off the village. The dead bodies were maimed. Before the Khodjali attack,

 

Armenian military command reported that the humanitarian corridor was opened in order to help inhabitants to escape. Unfortunately, these calls were ignored or simply left unheard, thus Azerbaijani authorities did not arrange an evacuation. It does not seem perfectly clear weather the decision was made deliberately or not. However, during the Khodjali assault many civilians were killed, people were trying to escape desperately not only through the humanitarian corridor, but also over the mountains. Therefore, people died not only from the firing of Armenian troops who started a fire not recognizing people approaching their front, but also from harsh natural conditions. Nevertheless, many of the refugees reached the Azerbaijani-controlled territory.

 The article discusses disfigured dead bodies which were demonstrated to foreign journalists in the Azerbaijani-controlled territory, thus, a question arises. If people injured by Armenians reached Azerbaijani-controlled territory and died there, it was impossible for Armenians to disfigure their bodies… During the war, dead or wounded civilians were never considered as victims of genocide, though the author of the article claims otherwise.

 She uncritically supports the official position of the Azerbaijani government, that has created a myth about “Khodjali genocide” in order to divert the world’s attention from the massacre and expulsion of Armenians organized by Azerbaijanis. Armenians that had lived in Azerbaijan for centuries became refugees, except those who were brutally killed. It was a result of the Armenian massacres and pogroms committed in Azerbaijan between 1988 and 1991.

The first Armenian extermination was committed on February 27-29, 1988, in the city of Soviet Azerbaijan, Sumgait, which is 25 km away from the capital Baku. The massacre was a ‘response’ to the request of the Council of People’s Deputies of the Armenian populated Nagorno-Karabakh to incorporate the territory into Armenian SSR. Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh had long sought to be incorporated into Soviet Armenia and hoped that the policy of Glasnost and Perestroika finally provides that chance.

After all, this was a common practice in the USSR, thus Nikita Khrushchev’s decision to transfer Crimea to Ukraine was not the only case. After World War II, some territories of Latvia and Estonia, inhabited almost exclusively by Russians, were also incorporated into Russia. Naturally, the incorporation under the conditions of democratization of the USSR in the Nagorno-Karabakh could not have been made in one day with Moscow decision, but only through negotiations and mutual coordination of interests. However, the Azerbaijani authorities did not even want to hear about it. The so-called People’s Front of Azerbaijan particularly fiercely stood against Armenians. Its external similarity with the Estonian People’s Front or the Lithuanian Sąjūdis did not mislead our current leaders. Arvydas Juozaitis noticed that it is impossible to compare Estonia with Azerbaijan. The first one is similar to Finland, while the second one - to Afghanistan.

After the Sumgait massacre which was widely discussed in the Western media, Armenians were continuously being killed and persecuted in Azerbaijan. On January, 1990 pogroms reached its peak in Baku. Only at the end of pogroms Soviet army troops came to Baku and enabled the escape for Armenians through Caspian Sea. Their property was completely stolen and destroyed. Baku as well as the whole Azerbaijan has been ‘freed from Armenians’ since 1990. Armenians themselves have written a lot about Baku tragedy, but here will be provided another proof from neutral source that reveals the essence of the problem from a different perspective.

Eduard Topol, a Jewish-Russian writer, born and raised in Baku, living in the US since 1978, in one of his articles addresses the oligarch Boris Abramovich Berezovsky, urging him to take care of poor people in Russia and gives him an example when good deeds were rewarded. The story happened to his young and wealthy friend who always helped the poor. The reorganization has opened up even more opportunities for him. His fiancée was a wealthy Armenian as well, but on January, 1990 her house in Baku was devastated and partially burned. The friend of Topol had the opportunity to move out from Baku easily, but his fiancée wanted to look at her home for the last time. They were walking together in the garden, where they found some family pictures thrown out, when Azerbaijanis appeared, armed with metal pipes, axes and other killing tools. As Azerbaijanis spotted her, they immediately came to kill her. E. Topol’s friend had a gun, but it hardly could save their lives.

Suddenly the crowd howl “Death to Armenian!” was interrupted by a voice of an elderly man: “Stop it! Don’t you know him? He never refused to help us, the poor, with any trouble. Leave them alone”. As the crowd dispersed, they both went out on the street and drove straight to the airport. This story seems to be very romantic, but it reflects the horror of massacres and vandalism as experienced by Armenians in Baku.

Not to left unmentioned, there were not comparatively too many Armenians killed, firstly they wanted to intimidate them and force to leave Azerbaijan. The latter’s government, after losing war to Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Armenia, still seeks for revenge. Especially when the Aliyevs - Heydar Aliyev and later his son Ilham - took over the power, the falsified image of the conflict with Armenia was immediately spread abroad by a well-funded pro-Azerbaijani lobby. This is what all the Embassies of Azerbaijan do, including the one in Lithuania. Of course, the diplomatic activity of Azerbaijan is legal, as well as the efforts of their lobbyists to influence the Lithuanian society’s opinion. However, while reading the Azerbaijani approach retransmitted by these lobbyists one can notice both the primitiveness of arguments denying the committed genocide and justifying the possible oncoming one.

Without questioning the morality of Azerbaijani lobbyists, here I briefly introduce their most common arguments.

Firstly, they commonly refer that Azerbaijanis are victims of a four-staged genocide, organized by Armenians in 1905-1906, 1918-1920, 1947-1952, 1988-1994. Azerbaijani propagandist in Lithuania Imantas Melian has published an article The Genocide of the Azerbaijani People 1905-1994 in the publication Genocide and Resistance. The article is mainly based on a book "Преступления армянских террористических и бандитских формирований против человечества (XIX-XXI векa)" (Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Armenian Terrorist and Bandit Groups (XIX-XXI Centuries)). Thus, the lobbyists often claim that Armenians have committed a crime against humanity, hence, in order to defend itself, they (Azerbaijanis should destroy the nation (the Armenians), or at least humanity should quietly support the destruction.

Secondly, they claim, that the fact of Armenian genocide and the massive annihilation of other Christian nations in Turkey is falsificated and spread by Armenians. They were committing massacres against the Turks, thus the Turkish authorities were forced to deport Armenians, some of whom were somehow killed․Although almost all the countries in the world, including Lithuania, recognized the Armenian Genocide, a journalist Gintaras Visockas in his book Black Garden Tragedy, published in Vilnius, 2016, wrote: “If Turks have to apologize to Armenians, then Armenians should definitely apologize to Turks… As there were about a million of Armenians killed, while twice as much of Turks”. Thus, it cannot be called a genocide, since the term itself was coined only in 1944. Could it be the reason not to call it Genocide?

The third argument is the denial of the fact that the territories of current Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic belong to Armenians. Azerbaijanis claim that they lived there before the accession to the Russian Empire in the first half of the 19th century. Only the rule of Russian tsars in the 19th century transferred Armenians to Nagorno-Karabakh. Therefore, it should be returned to Azerbaijan…There is no room for Armenians in their homeland.

The fourth argument is the denial of the existence of Armenian nation, although it is widely known that Armenians not only existed BC, but also already had a state. Azerbaijanis claim that Armenians are an ‘artificial derivative’ of Turkish nations, even Gypsies, who are very hostile towards all of their neighbors, especially the Jewish. Lithuanian-Azerbaijani Association tried to prove this approach in a book "Марши смерти: Преступления армянства против еврейского народа" ("The Death Ride: Crimes Committed by Armenians Against the Jewish People”) published in Baku, 2008. Hence, they claim that Armenians are not a nation, they do not have their territory, consequently, the annihilation of Armenians cannot be reprehensible? It is not this kind of propaganda that vexes, but the spirit that is being cultivated in Azerbaijani society and especially among the young generation.

And fifth, Azerbaijani diplomats in foreign countries use services of local lobbyists to prevent from supporting or contacting with Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh). In Lithuania, members of Parliamentary Group for Friendship with Nagorno-Karabakh had been constantly attacked in public. The aforementioned Mr. Visockas was not the only one who has accused the group members of having a pro-Russian approach and being hostile to a NATO member Turkey. Other Lithuanian lobbyists in Azerbaijan accused Armenia of maintaining good relations with Iran. However, Iran did not commit Armenian genocide in Iran, moreover, Armenian community has freedom of religion and of cultural _expression_ in this country”.

 

 

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Posted 26 February 2020 - 10:09 AM

Aravot, Armenia
Feb 25 2020
 
 
‘Azerbaijan is using fake photos that have nothing to do with what happened in Khojaly’: Anzhela Elibegova
 
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On the eve of the 28th anniversary of the events in Khojaly, Azeri affairs expert Anzhela Elibegova emphasized at the Zarkerak press club was one of the towns used to bombard Stepanakert. It was clear to Azerbaijan that the town needed to be neutralized, but they deliberately did not warn the citizens so that it could continue to play the role of the protector and continue firing upon Armenians. It is notable that, during this time, people who had nothing to do with Azerbaijan began to live in Khojaly, which is why the number of residents had greatly increased.

According to Elibegova, the Azeri side is using this as propaganda to try and prove that the Armenian side carried this out. They are trying to convince people that Armenia committed genocide, but the Armenian side is working on revealing the fallacies contained in Azeri propaganda films and websites. “Lots of people were saved when the city was turned over to the Armenians. Around 700 civil residents of Khojaly were able to safely move to Azerbaijan thanks to the Armenians. Due to the blockade in Stepanakert, there was a food shortage, and there was no way for these people to live there,” the expert said.

Elibegova also said that it was not only one group that was saved by the Armenians. “It’s interesting that the other part went to Aghdam via the evacuation corridor opened by the Armenians. Aghdam was under Azeri control. The civilians did not reach Aghdam because the Azeris made an announcement that caused them to panic. This is when the gunfire began, and that’s when those people were killed.”

Regarding the distortion of facts, Elibegova noted that the Azeri journalist photographed the dead bodies on the 28th and in the days following. It became clear from those photos that the people had been tortured and their bodies were defiled in order to blame the Armenians. “Azerbaijan has falsified lists of dead people many times by writing the same names multiple times or by including the names of people who have nothing to do with Azeris. They did this in the hope that Armenians would not check these lists. Azerbaijan is using fake photos that have nothing to do with what happened in Khojaly.”

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Posted 12 March 2021 - 09:51 AM

Public Radio of Armenia
March 11 2021
 
 
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh rescinds Khojalu proclamation, apologizes to Armenian community
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Mayor Marty Walsh has issued a statement of apology to the Armenian community of Boston and rescinded a recent proclamation declaring February 26 Khojalu Commemoration Day, the Armenian Weekly reports.

“Unfortunately on our part, this was done without our typical review process, which includes conferring with all those potentially impacted,” the apology letter reads.

“Following conversations with leaders of the Armenian-American community, we realize that this proclamation has been hurtful to many of you.” 

 

For the past week, members of Boston’s Armenian community and abroad have been contacting the mayor’s office, urging him to reverse the proclamation following a call to action from the Armenian National Committee of America Eastern Region (ANCA-ER). 

“The ANC-of Eastern Massachusetts would like to thank the mayor for acting on this quickly. It was very clear that it wasn’t professionally vetted,” said chairman Aram Kaligian in an interview with the Armenian Weekly. “The mayor has been a friend to the community,” he continued. 

Indeed, Mayor Walsh, who is preparing for his transition to become the US Secretary of Labor, has participated in several Armenian Genocide commemorations both at the Massachusetts State House and Armenian Heritage Park, where he proclaimed that Armenians have made Boston a “stronger city.”

“Our goal when issuing a proclamation is to honor and celebrate the contributions of Bostonians from all walks of life, and not to engage in international matters that can cause pain or divisiveness,” the letter reads. 

 

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This is not the first time that a municipal or state government has declared February 26 Khojalu Commemoration Day. Nearly identical proclamations were announced by the mayor of Portland, Maine and the governor of Minnesota. Each of these declarations followed appeals by local Azerbaijani community organizations, including the Azerbaijani Society of Maine and the Azerbaijani Association in Minnesota.

According to various Azerbaijani news sites, the Boston proclamation was adopted on the initiative of the New-England based Azerbaijan Center. All three cite Human Rights Watch in marking the 29th anniversary of the “largest massacre of the 1990s, the Khojalu Massacre.” The ANC of Eastern Massachusetts underscores, however, that the proclamations are rife with distortions and exaggerations and erase the role of Azeri troops in the fighting around Khojalu. 

“This is clearly part of a Turkish-Azeri propaganda effort to reduce the significance of the Armenian Genocide and crimes against humanity that the Turkish government has committed in the past,” Kaligian said. “It’s also a way of reducing the culpability of the present Turkish and Azeri governments in their war crimes against Armenians.”

Middlesex Sheriff Peter Koutoujian, who has known Mayor Walsh since 1996 during their time together in the state legislature, commends local activists for mobilizing and asking the mayor to reconsider the February 26 statement. “This is a proud day for our community in Greater Boston. This is a proud day to be Armenian,” said Sheriff Koutoujian in an interview with the Weekly. “We were recognized, and we were respected. This is a good day for our community to show that people believe in us.”

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