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Posted 08 February 2019 - 02:48 PM

One more defeat for the fake sultan!!!!!!!!!

Arminfo, Armenia

Feb 7 2019
 
 
Tatevik Shahunyan The UN Commission rejected complaint of Azerbaijan against Armenia 20161221114933%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B7-%D0%B8%

ArmInfo.The UN Economic Commission for Europe rejected the complaint of Azerbaijan from 2011 against Armenia. Head of the Office for International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Vahram Kazhoyan, wrote  about this on Facebook.  "After eight years of "battles" as a result  of the negotiations, we recorded a victory today on a very important  issue for Armenia within the framework of the Convention on  Environmental Impact Assessment in a transboundary context.

In 2011, Azerbaijan submitted a complaint against Armenia, which,  however, on all the provisions was refuted by the Ministry of Foreign  Affairs and the Ministry of Nature Protection of the Republic of  Armenia at several hearings over 8 years. Today, the Economic  Commission for Europe formally made a decision based on the facts we  have presented. The commission found that Armenia fully fulfills its  obligations under the Convention, and the complaint of Azerbaijan is  unfounded, "the diplomat explained. 

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Posted 10 September 2020 - 08:26 AM

News.am, Armenia
Sept 9 2020
 
 
 
Azerbaijani folk writer: There are only smart and intelligent Armenians on television channels
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Folk writer of Azerbaijan Chingiz Abdulayev is outraged by the illiteracy of most of his compatriots.

“Today an interview with Lukashenko was broadcast. It is stated everywhere that they are the leading journalists of Russia. Two of the four journalists — Simonyan and Babayan — are editors-in-chief. The speakers on Russian television channels are Kurginyan, Sarkisov, Shakhnazarov, Poghosyan, Keosayan, and the list goes on. Don’t dare to tell me about their lobbying. They are smart, intelligent and talented people who have good command of Russian. We Azerbaijanis have the opposite examples. Compare the speeches of Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan in Russian or English. Is there any need for comments?

Let’s talk about Azerbaijani nationalists. “Let’s close Russian schools” — we have been hearing the wrathful squeals many times. Calm down. We Azerbaijanis don’t even see anyone on foreign TV channels, and those who appear on TV channels have very bad command of Russian. I can’t even say anything good about Azerbaijanis speaking English on English-language TV channels, even though the number of Azerbaijanis with command of English is growing. Dear local illiterates, knowing your native language is a necessity and can’t even be discussed, but a small country like ours needs thousands of people who at least have excellent command of Russian, English, French and Arabic.

We Azerbaijanis don’t just need reporters who have command of languages. We need officers who have command of foreign technical equipment, artist and scientists who will present their culture and science to the world, and finally, we need politicians. We Azerbaijanis don’t have a lobby not because somebody is standing in our way. Our stupidity, backwardness, inferiority, envy and ignorance — these are the main enemies, and this is seen in the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, and in international affairs, and in foreign and domestic policies. As one of the local ‘figures’ said, “we dreamed of liberating ourselves from the Russian language, how can we liberate ourselves from the English language”. Of course, dreaming is not harmful. But perhaps we can do the opposite and increase the number of schools in different languages and make our children learn second and third languages. Perhaps then we won’t remember others’ lobbying when we see two Azerbaijanis appear on our television screens, even though, really, dreaming is not harmful…” the writer declared, reports haqqin.az.


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Posted 22 September 2020 - 07:05 AM

Here is Azeries great contribution to society! HATE and more HATE.

News.am, Armenia

Sept 21 2020
 
 
Tragedy in Azerbaijan: Colors of Armenian national flag 'detected' in school textbooks
20:23, 21.09.2020
                  
 
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A serious tragedy is being played out in Azerbaijan after the colors of the Armenian national flag were ‘detected’ in school textbooks.

In response to the commotion on social networks, the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan deemed it necessary to refute the possibility of a tragedy. The ministry told APA that the colors of the Armenian national flag can’t be detected in any school textbook or other book, as posted on social networks. “All books are considered publishing products, and censure over materials to be published isn’t allowed during preparation of the particular materials, in accordance with the legislation. The client of a publishing product can be any legal or natural person,” the statement of the Ministry of Education reads.

The colors of the national flag of Armenia are red, blue and orange, and it is hard to picture a children’s textbook without those colors.

Earlier, a video showing Azerbaijani kindergarten teachers teaching children to hate Armenians was posted on the Internet.

 
 
 

 

 


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Posted 25 September 2020 - 09:35 AM

The hate continues!!!!!!! No surprises here. 

Public Radio of Armenia

Sept 24 2020
 
 
French Mayor receives threats from Azerbaijanis
 
 

Bourg-les-Valence Mayor Marlene Mourier reveals in a Facebook post she received threats from Azerbaijanis in August this year.

“Enough is enough! In Bourg-lès-Valence, we have no lessons to learn from Azerbaijan, a “petro-dictatorship” ranked 168 out of 180 by Reporters Without Borders,” she says.

In a lengthy post the Mayor says “when it comes to threats and intimidation against me, Azerbaijan is at its best.”

“After putting me on a blacklist in 2014, then sending me a bailiff in my town hall in 2016 to demand that I put an end to all friendly relations with the residents of the city of Shushi in Artsakh. It was in 2018 that I had to face a lawsuit brought by the state of Azerbaijan before the administrative court with the aim of invalidating the friendship charter that I signed on October 5, 2014 with Shushi, a historical capital of Artsakh, “she says.

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Gepostet von Marlène Mourier am Mittwoch, 23. September 2020

The Mayor makes it clear, however, the friendship charter challenged by Baku remains valid and that no one can prejudge the final decision of the Council of State.

“Today I am once again the subject of threats and intimidation to which I will not give in, let alone the dictator in Baku or even his allies in Turkey. Indeed, three Azeri henchmen came to town hall on August 25 to order me to withdraw within an hour the Artsakh flag which flies alongside the flags of our twin cities with which we maintain friendship links,” Marlene Mourier says.

She notes that fifteen minutes later an official of the Azerbaijani Embassy called her deputy, trying to intimidate him undemanding that the Artskh flag be withdrawn.

“Azerbaijan, Aliyev and his associates must come to terms with the idea that friendship cannot be decreed or annulled and that Bourcans have esteem and consideration for the residents of Shushi and for the people of Artsakh, in general,” teh Mayor stresses.

According to her, “Bourg-lès-Valence is not a land of conquest but a land of resistance.”

“Here in France, in Bourg-lès-Valence, displaying the Artsakh flag is an act of solidarity with a people that Azerbaijan threatens daily with annihilation, demonstrating to the world that its only stated ambition is to complete the genocide of the Armenians of 1915 whose executors of yesterday are their allies today,” she notes.

“Neither Bourg-lès-Valence, nor its mayor, Marlène Mourier, will be under the orders of the Baku dictatorship!” she concludes.

 
 

 


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Posted 21 January 2021 - 08:26 AM

Panorama, Armenia
Jan 20 2021
 
 
 
Polish politician offered 50,000$ to cancel publication of a brochure on Azerbaijani war crimes in Karabakh

 

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Polish politician Tomasz Lech Buczek says that Azerbaijan has offered 50,000$ for canceling the publication of brochure on Azerbaijani war crimes against Armenians in the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh. 

Buczek has shared the screenshot of a message received from an Azerbaijani social media user, reading: ""The Azerbaijani government will give you $50,000, if you don't publish the publication about Azerbaijani crimes. If interested, please post a photo of Baku on January 25th on Facebook." 

"President Aliyev probably heard about my publication?" My response to Baku is: "Release the Armenian prisoners of war," Buczek wrote in an accompanying message to the screenshot. 

To note, Buczek  earlier organized a fund-raising campaign for publishing the brochure. He said that the brochure would be the world's first printed publication on Azerbaijan's war crimes against the Armenian population in Karabakh in 2020. 

The publication specifically details the tortures and inhuman treatment of Armenian war prisoners held in Azerbaijan. 

President Alijev probably? heard? about my publication. I received a proposal for not publishing Azerbaijani war crimes...

Posted by Tomasz Lech Buczek on Tuesday, January 19, 2021
 
 


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Posted 23 January 2021 - 08:09 AM

The Calvert Journal
Jan 22 2021
 
 
The Aliyev influence: how nepotism and self-censorship rule Azerbaijan’s art scene
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While the Azerbaijani government channels money into contemporary art to reshape the country’s international image, independent artists face two options: self-censorship or exile.
22 January 2021

On 2 October, 2020, days after war erupted between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, a giant Azerbaijani flag rolled down the facade of Baku’s YARAT Contemporary Art Space. The gallery, one of the main contemporary art venues in the Caspian capital, posted a picture of the building on Instagram, alongside the newly ubiquitous hashtag #KarabakhisAzerbaijan. Later that month, Turkish-born Kurdish artist Ahmet Öğüt, whose exhibition No Poem Loves Its Poet had been on show at YARAT since late May, asked for the politically-charged banner to be taken down and declared in a statement: “I refuse to allow my work to fall prey to political instrumentalisation”.

YARAT refused to take down the flag or the Instagram post, and instead decided to terminate Öğüt’s exhibition on 29 October, three weeks earlier than planned. In a comment under the post, the art gallery said that the flag was simply “a sign of support to our country and to our nation”.

The early cancellation, however, is just one example of how Azerbaijan’s apparently thriving art scene conceals something darker: a deeply nepotistic environment which routinely suppresses dissident voices while crafting an international image of Azerbaijan as a free, art-loving nation.

 

Artists like Öğüt, who are unwilling to support or ignore institutions’ political stances, soon see themselves falling from favour. “Over many years, as an artist, I have worked many times in conflicted areas, and have responded to the local situation with nuanced and challenging artworks,” the artist wrote on social media. “YARAT Contemporary Art Centre circulated, on social media, an image of the banner of my exhibition, next to the national flag covering the facade of its building along with a politically-motivated statement, which have nothing to do with my independent vision or the content of my exhibition.”

 

The incident raised eyebrows in art publications worldwide, many concerned over the interference of political ideology in the case. It is not the first time that the country has attracted attention for the wrong reasons. Governed by President Ilham Aliyev and Vice-President and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva, the Azerbaijani government has been repeatedly criticised by human rights’ groups for ongoing censorship, a poor human rights record, and rampant corruption. And, like many nearby authoritarian regimes, members of the President’s family are known to own most of the country’s major businesses, earning them millions of dollars since the fall of the USSR and situating Aliyev amongst the world’s richest oil billionaires

In Azerbaijan, where the arts scene is heavy-handedly controlled by the country’s political elite, nepotism and the interference of political ideology run deep

Yet while monopolising business may be commonplace in scores of heavy-handed regimes, the Azerbaijani government’s bid to control contemporary art is just as fierce, and uses the same techniques which have seen Aliyev family members in commercial places of power.

YARAT, the gallery at the centre of the October flag incident, was founded by Aida Mahmudova, an artist, curator, and VP Mehriban Aliyeva’s niece. When interviewed by Forbes in 2015, Mahmudova, who was described as “evasive” when asked about YARAT’s links to the government, said that although the gallery receives technical support from the state, it is independent. However, Baku’s Marriott Hotel, which is allegedly connected to Aliyev’s daughters Leyla and Arzu Aliyeva according to reporters for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), is one of YARAT’s main partners.

Mahmudova is also the director of another of Azerbaijan’s main contemporary art galleries: Baku’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMa). The museum was founded by Mehriban Aliyeva in 2009, and is funded by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation (of which Mehriban Aliyeva is the President and Leyla Aliyeva the Vice-President), a charitable organisation created in memory of the former president of Azerbaijan and father of current president Ilham Aliyev. Elsewhere in Baku, another star venue on Azerbaijan’s cultural scene is the Heydar Aliyev Center. Completed in 2012, the building was designed by renowned architect Zaha Hadid. The current director of the Heydar Aliyev Center is Anar Alakbarov, a former assistant to the Vice President of Azerbaijan and current assistant to the President.

 

The Azerbaijani government’s monopoly over smaller art galleries is no less thorough. The Qiz Qalasi Gallery, an art venue in Baku with a branch in Berlin, is headed by Emin Mammadov, who also works as Art Curator for the Heydar Aliyev Foundation. Between 2012 and 2014, Qiz Qalasi Gallery held Fly to Baku. Modern Art of Azerbaijan, a travelling exhibition supported by the Heydar Aliyev Centre that toured European capitals, where Mehriban and Leila Aliyeva hosted lavish inaugurations attended by European government officials and diplomats. In November 2020, the gallery launched Armed with the Arts, an exhibition allegedly meant to promote peace after the Second Nagorno-Karabakh war, while, similarly to YARAT, openly supported the position of the Azerbaijani government and used politically-charged, bellicose language. Kicik QalArt Gallery, a project of the Art ex East Foundation and another important smaller-scale venue in the capital, although now closed, used to be owned by Olivier Mestelan, a Swiss art collector and financier. Mestelan used to sit on the board of Ataholding, an open joint-stock company that managed Atabank, one of the biggest commercial banks in Azerbaijan, now bankrupt and owned by the Azerbaijan Deposit Insurance Fund (ADIF). According to an investigation carried out in 2011 by RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service, Mestelan was also claimed to be the treasurer of three offshore Panama-based companies linked to Azerfon, a Baku-based telecommunications company with links to Arzu and Leyla Aliyeva.

In light of their far-reaching involvement, the question is why the Aliyev family is so keen to embed themselves in contemporary art. Lesley Gray, a scholar researching the development of the contemporary art scene in the Arab Gulf and Caspian Sea region, explains how Azerbaijan and other countries use contemporary art as a tool to reshape the country’s international image. “Museums –– and contemporary art museums and organizations in particular –– have the potential to convey, simultaneously, both unique identity and global belonging. Inclusion in a global art movement, such as contemporary art, conveys modernity in a subtle but prescient way –– to be part of the global contemporary art world is to be part of the global elite,” she wrote in a 2017 paper.

Ultimately, Azerbaijan is not innocently interested in cutting-edge art — its Caucasian neighbours, Georgia and Armenia, with comparably fewer resources, have more diverse creative scenes with a rising number of independent initiatives. Instead, much like other oil-rich, authoritarian countries like Qatar and the UAE, Azerbaijan’s hopes to use art as a tool to attract international attention for something other than imprisoned journalists and crackdowns on free speech. By creating an international image as fervent art supporters, the Azerbaijani government masks how it has tirelessly worked to eliminate its independent arts scene, which now operates at a very small scale, online, or in exile. By supporting the flow of public money and oil wealth into art venues and projects — the most prestigious run by members of his own family — the Aliyev family has reaped a number of benefits: earning a global name as art-lovers, wiping out “problematic” creative _expression_ at home by ensuring influence with those who control funding, and using this to ensure that local art institutions align with their ideological agenda.

The Azerbaijani government’s investments in contemporary art locally are also a bridge to increasing its influence abroad. As Gray says, “art and cultural projects are used, both at home and abroad [...] as a form of soft or “subtle” power to enhance political legitimacy and relevance”. Mehriban Aliyeva, through the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, has shelled out generous sums for cultural institutions such as The Palace of Versailles, Paris’ Louvre Museum, and the Vatican Museums. while the Friends of Azerbaijani Culture Foundation, a non-governmental charity which she founded in 1995, routinely organises art exhibits abroad.

 

Such spending reaps real-life rewards. In 2004, Mehriban Aliyeva was designated UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, a laurel given in recognition of her actions to promote international cultural exchanges. Later, in 2010, Aliyeva received a gold medal from UNESCO for her “efforts in establishing an intercultural dialogue.” Over the years, Azerbaijan has had a particularly favorable relationship with the UN body — in October 2015, at the petition of Mehriban Aliyeva, UNESCO hosted an exhibition ironically called Azerbaijan — Land of Tolerance at its Paris headquarters. At the opening, when a journalist asked Aliyeva whether the title of the exhibition lived up to the reality in Azerbaijan, considering the country has “many political prisoners in jail”, Aliyeva denied this and turned her back while security guards pushed the journalist away. The relationship was particularly favorable between Mehriban Alliyeva and Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO between 2009-2017. Their relationship came under scrutiny in 2017, when Kalin Mitrev, Bokova’s husband, was investigated by the Bulgarian Chief Prosecutor in relation to media publications about payments made by Azerbaijani companies to his accounts. Bokova then wrote a letter to The Guardian defending the rightfulness of her relationship with Azerbaijan, but never spoke openly about the money allegedly received by her husband or her stance towards Azerbaijan’s human rights abuses

But ultimately, such international praise for the Aliyev government contradicts its real-life record on art. In 2011, Azerbaijan censored its own entry to the Venice Biennale, the world’s most high-profile showcase of contemporary art, by hiding the work of one of its own artists under a piece of cloth. Moscow-based artist Aidan Salakhova’s work Waiting Bride, which showed a woman in a black veil from head to foot, and another sculpture, which showed the Black Stone of Mecca contained in a vagina-shaped marble frame, were hidden under a white cloth. The government later claimed that the artworks were “damaged during transport”, while senior sources at the exhibition clarified that the works were censored for being considered offensive to Islam..

 

Many independent artists, whose work does not reach Baku’s government-owned, high-profile art venues, have similar stories of censorship — although most refuse to speak publicly. The strongest voice in Azerbaijan’s independent art scene comes from Art for Democracy, an online platform founded by a group of independent artists and human rights defenders to showcase their work and raise awareness about repression in Azerbaijan.

“Almost all artistic venues and spaces are run or controlled either by someone who is close to the government, or directly by the authorities. It inevitably impacts independent art in a negative manner, because artists don’t have many options; they either need to accept the unwritten rules that restrict the full independence of the artist or they just should stop their activities,” a member of Art for Democracy told The Calvert Journal.

 

Ironically, perhaps most telling is that the number of cases of repression have dramatically declined in recent years. Artists, aware of the risk they face, either conform to the taste of the First Lady if they want to make a living, leave the country, or stop making art altogether.

 

“Artists don’t have many options; they either need to accept the unwritten rules that restrict the full independence of the artist or they just should stop their activities”

 

“The alternative art scene exists mostly on the internet,” said the representative of Art for Democracy. “Currently, I could claim that there is no really independent space or scene for alternative or independent art.” However, in Azerbaijan, where the government routinely shuts down websites, including all social media sites during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, online displays of art are not free of censorship. Azerbaijani artist Gunduz Aghayev found himself facing pressure from the authorities after he began sharing political cartoons online as a protest against injustice. He was excluded from art venues, and after constant persecution, left Azerbaijan in 2014. “If your political views are in opposition, you are already excluded from all projects as a problematic object. For this reason, artists try to work without touching on political issues,” he says. “In the last years of my life [in Azerbaijan], I only showed my works on social networks. I started doing digital political art. However, still I could not continue living in the country.”

It is this trend — self-censorship and exile — which is most perhaps most damaging of all to Azerbaijani art. Independent art plays a decisive role driving social and political change, and it has the power to challenge authoritarian discourses. While recent leadership changes in the Ministry of Culture hold a glimmer of hope, small initiatives and venues apprehensively emerge, and the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war will surely bring about changes in the arts scene, full creative freedom remains a distant goal. Yet as long as artists remain in fear, it remains almost impossible for real, large-scale artistic opposition to breathe.

“Creative organisations are a minority, and the source of funding for these organizations is almost entirely tied to the political elite,” says Aghayev. “For this reason, there is a certain red line in art. This line should not be crossed.”

 
 


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Posted 09 February 2021 - 09:17 AM

        Russian Archbishop of Azerbaijan Makes
            Anti-Armenian Remarks to Please Aliyev
           By Harut Sassounian
            Publisher, The California Courier
            www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com

Archbishop Vladyka Alexander, the head of the Diocese of the Russian
Orthodox Church in Azerbaijan, gave an interview last month to Jayson
Casper of Christianity Today, shamelessly spewing Azeri propaganda,
badmouthing Armenians and praising Azerbaijan. He spoke more like a
spokesman for the dictator Ilham Aliyev than a man of God. This is a
clergyman who would not hesitate to sell his soul to the devil for the
right price! It is not surprising that Azerbaijan’s Embassy in
Washington, D.C., immediately posted his interview on its Facebook
page.

Abp. Alexander started the interview by stating: “1,500 years of
separation between the Eastern Orthodox church and the Armenian
Apostolic church has complicated relations. We have holy books and
traditions in common, but we are not in fellowship.”

The Russian Archbishop knowingly lied by stating that “Azerbaijan has
a high level of multicultural acceptance and preserves its religious
monuments. The Armenian churches and libraries in Baku are kept safe.
In the case of a peace agreement, these can be used again, as they
should.” Abp. Alexander is wrong. There are no functioning Armenian
churches in Baku.

Strangely, the Russian Archbishop accused “Armenians of lying to
themselves.” He said that Armenians “are very sorry they had to leave”
Azerbaijan. The Archbishop must have forgotten about the massacres of
innocent Armenians by Azeris in Sumgait, Baku and other parts of
Azerbaijan.

When asked if he would be willing to make a phone call to Catholicos
Karekin II, the Russian Archbishop sarcastically replied: “I don’t
have his phone number [smiling].”

In response to the interviewer’s question about the Armenian Genocide,
the Russian Archbishop lied again by stating: “When the word genocide
is used, we should be very careful. We have very sad facts about the
actions of Armenian forces on the territory of Azerbaijan. We have
thousands of Azerbaijanis killed by the Armenian side, so to whom
should we address the word genocide?” He then added, “Azerbaijanis do
not have hate in their heart,” forgetting the beheadings of Armenians
by Azerbaijani soldiers during the recent war, not to mention the
earlier massacres in Sumgait and Baku.

Christianity Today mentioned that early in the recent Artsakh war, the
Russian Archbishop “signed an Azerbaijani interfaith letter
congratulating President Ilham Aliyev on his military victories.”

In response to these anti-Armenian remarks, the Primate of the Western
Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America, Archbishop Hovnan
Derderian, sent a harshly-worded letter to the Russian Orthodox
Archbishop criticizing him for his false allegations:

“Responding to your interview with Christianity Today Magazine would
be considered a waste of time and effort, for it would be replying to
an individual who lacks humility, knowledge of history, attempts to
distort uncontestable historical facts, but above all, distorts the
TRUTH. Furthermore, your arrogance is quite astonishing for a shepherd
of Christ, the Lord.

“You speak of finding ways to live together. We certainly agree that
both parties should find ways to live together. Yet when a country,
that committed the Armenian Genocide a century ago by killing
1,500,000 innocent Armenians, rejects to accept the obvious facts, and
in addition to that openly supports Azerbaijan, it is hard to find
ways to live together. Moreover, when the same country leads the war
operations of Azerbaijan, sends its special forces, recruits thousands
of radical Islamists to kill Christian Armenians, it becomes difficult
to reconcile. When the leader of that country vows to ‘continue to
fulfill the mission that our grandfathers carried out for centuries in
the Caucasus again’ (Recep Tayyip Erdogan—July 24, 2020), attempts at
reconciliation are questioned, don’t you think?

“You state that Armenians have hatred toward Azerbaijan. When an
Azerbaijani army officer axes a sleeping Armenian army officer to
death and is later pardoned by the President of Azerbaijan, freed from
his sentence, and is granted the status of ‘Hero’ of Azerbaijan by the
same president, I ask you the definition of hatred. On May 26, 2020,
the European Court of Human Rights said it ‘found that there had been
no justification for the Azerbaijani authorities’ failure to enforce
the punishment of Ramil Safarov and in effect grant him impunity for a
serious hate crime.’ Isn’t hate in its purest form the deliberate
circulation of videos on social media of Azeri soldiers assassinating,
skinning and beheading Armenian prisoners of war amidst celebration?

“Your contention is that ‘Azerbaijan has a high level of multicultural
acceptance and preserves its religious monuments. The Armenian
churches and libraries in Baku are kept safe.’ How can you state such
a thoughtless claim when there is video evidence of purposeful
destruction of Armenian cross stones in Nakhichevan, carried out
systematically to permanently erase all traces of Armenian heritage
from the region?

“You speak about the Catholicos of All Armenians not doing enough to
make peace. Let me remind you that in 2010, His Holiness Karekin I
travelled to Azerbaijan, met with Allahshukur Pashazade [Grand Mufti
of Azerbaijan] and President Ilham Aliyev for peace talks in Baku.

“Replying to your interview responses is futile indeed, for the lack
of respect for history and the truth is quite evident.”

These are strong words from one clergyman to another. I suggest that
other Armenian clergymen and Catholicos Karekin II write letters to
Patriarch Kirill, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church in All of
Russia in Moscow, who has exclusive jurisdiction over Russian Orthodox
Christians in Azerbaijan, complaining about Archbishop Alexander’s
shameful statements.

Amazingly, on June 25, 2017, Archbishop Alexander was awarded a medal
of honor from the Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in
Moscow for his significant contribution to the promotion and
strengthening of interreligious dialogue. Patriarch Kirill, in his
congratulatory message, commended Archbishop Alexander for carrying
out his task with “special tact and diplomatic skills … in the land
[Azerbaijan] where representatives of different religions and
nationalities live side by side.”

Obviously, after making such false statements about Armenians,
Archbishop Alexander has failed in his ‘interreligious’ duties.
Patriarch Kirill should be urged to take away the medal that he was
awarded.

It is understandable that Archbishop Alexander is trying to please the
dictator of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev. However, a man of God should not
tell lies for any reason, under any circumstance. Patriarch Kirill
should tell Archbishop Alexander to apologize for his lies, and if
not, he should strip him of his religious rank.



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Posted 13 February 2021 - 08:11 AM

Panorama, Armenia
Feb 12 2021
 
 
Azerbaijani woman tells Turkish journalist she would decapitate 20 Armenians and not care about it
19:01, 12.02.2021
 
 

The bestial response of an Azerbaijani woman who answered a Turkish journalist’s question on the street has sparked great reactions in Turkey.

The Turkish journalist, who was conducting a survey from passersby on the streets of Istanbul, asked a woman what crime she would commit, if she knew that she wouldn’t be punished, and in response, the woman said she would decapitate 20 Armenians and not care about it. Surprised, the journalist asked the woman where she was from, and the latter said she was from Azerbaijan.

Turkish-Armenian Member of Parliament Garo Paylan has already filed a lawsuit against the Azerbaijani woman wishing to decapitate Armenians.

https://news.am/eng/news/628517.html



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Posted 19 February 2021 - 09:12 AM

When will the criminal liars stop lying?

Public Radio of Armenia

Feb 18 2021
 
 
 
Azerbaijan unhappy with Armenia’s plans to exhibit carpets from Shushi Museum, seeks UNESCO support
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Azerbaijan has urged UNESCO to react to Armenia’s plans to hold an exhibition of carpets from the Shushi Carpet Museum.

The country’s Culture Ministry says the carpets were “illegally taken out of Shushi on November 1.”

The Ministry claims Armenians have not been historically engaged in carpet weaving and describes the exhibition as “a manifestation of misappropriation.”

Carpets made in Artsakh will go on display at the National Museum-Institute of Architecture after Alexander Tamanyan on February 20.  

The carpets are from the private collection of Vardan Astsatryan, founder of the Shushi Carpet Museum and were taken out of the city on November 1, 2020. 

The oldest of the items to be exhibited is 350 years old.

The Shushi Carpet Museum was founded by Vardan Astsatryan in 2011 and opened its doors to public in 2013.

 

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Posted 24 February 2021 - 09:10 AM

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Azerbaijan Loses Three Human Rights Cases in One Day
Written by Kelly Bloss
Feb.23, 2021


Azerbaijan lost three cases in front of the European Court of Human
Rights last week and will have to pay 282,850 euro (US$344,122) to the
plaintiffs for violating their rights.

In one case, the government was ordered to pay 234,000 euro ($284,690)
to 18 people whose gardens have been years ago unlawfully sold to
President Ilham Aliyev’s then relatives.

In 2007, a year after Aliyev’s eldest daughter Leyla married pop-star
Emin Agalarov, a presidential order dismantled the so-called Garden
Exploitation Department which leased plots of land to residents.

The city of Baku then handed over 30 hectares of seafront land the 18
plaintiffs had leased in the Nardaran neighborhood of Baku to the
municipality, disregarding the contracts the 18 had signed years
before with the dismantled institution.

The municipality then sold the land to the Crocus Group, a company
owned by Emin’s father, Azerbaijani-born Russian billionaire Araz
Agalarov, who was the president of the company, while Emin was the
vice-president. Emin and Leyla divorced in 2015 but Emin’s company
meanwhile built a luxurious resort called Sea Breeze at the disputed
land.

The 18 residents took their complaints to the court and after
years-long procedures in Azerbaijan, the case ended up in 2009 at the
Strasbourg-based Court of Human Rights. Judges ruled on Thursday that
the rights of the plaintiffs were violated and ordered the government
to pay each of the 18 residents 10,000 euros ($12,166) in material
damages and 3,000 euro ($3,649) in moral damages.

Lawyer Sevinj Aliyeva wrote on her Facebook page that she was
approached by a representative of the Crocus Group who offered to
reward her if she drops the case.

“It is true that the sum of the compensation is not so big compared to
what Crocus Group earned with Sea Breeze, but for poor families,
especially during this pandemic, the compensation will be welcome,”
she wrote.

The other case Azerbaijan lost to two political prisoners, Mammad
Azizov and Shahin Novruzlu. The two were members of NIDA, a
non-governmental organization, and were arrested in 2013 on drugs,
weapons and rioting charges after a series of demonstrations against
deaths of soldiers in the Azerbaijani army in non-combat situations.

Azizov was in 2014 sentenced to seven years and six months and
Novruzlu to six years in prison, but both were released the same year
following a presidential pardon.

The court in Strasbourg ruled that the government has to pay 43,500
euros ($52,913) to them as compensation for illegal pre-trial
detention.

The third case concerns a man who has been illegally detained after
the pre-trial detention the court ordered ended. Ildar Rustamovich
Fayzov is to get 5,350 euros ($6,505) from the government, according
to the ruling.

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Posted 05 March 2021 - 09:59 AM

Arutz Sheva, Israel
March 4 2021
 
 
 
An open letter in defense of the good name of Armenia and its people
 
A group of Jewish and Israeli academics believe that Azerbaijan is behind a campaign to slander Armenia and have come to its defense. Op-ed.
 

We the undersigned are Jewish and Israeli scholars in the field of Near and Middle Eastern studies. We are writing this open letter in defense of the honor and good name of a people and their country near our homeland: Armenia. We are writing this because there has been a campaign in the Israeli and Jewish press, we suspect funded by the government of Azerbaijan, to slander and defame the Armenians. One such article appeared on the Arutz Sheva website,(which, it should be added, also posted several articles explaining the Armenian viewpoint) in an article by Paul Miller on 23 February 2021, in the Jerusalem Post and Tablet.

 

The Armenians are an ancient civilization, and were the first to accept Christianity as their national faith. The Armenian Quarter in the Old City of our national capital, Jerusalem, has existed for fifteen hundred years. For sixteen centuries Armenians have written their language, which is distantly related to Greek, in a unique phonetic alphabet whose shape a scholar-saint perceived in a mystical vision. They carve delicate filigree crosses of volcanic stone. They have illuminated manuscripts that are treasures of world art.

 

The Armenians love to get together for sumptuous, hospitable dinners. They are a very sad people: as the nations around them converted to Islam and they did not, they became an island ravaged by invasions and depopulated by exile. Having lost independence, without political and military power, they created, as our people did, a kingdom of creativity, of good deeds. The far-flung Armenian community excelled in business, in medicine, and in the arts and letters— their name for diaspora comes from the Hebrew word galut. Although Armenia has no indigenous Jewish community, the presence of Hebrew religious terminology in Armenian suggests some very early connections.

 

 

A century ago, Ottoman Turkish nationalists used the First World War as a pretext to exterminate the Armenians, who were accused, as Jews often are, of being a disloyal fifth column. Some of the Turks’ Azerbaijani cousins participated in anti-Armenian pogroms in various places including a region called Mountainous Karabagh. A generation after the events, a Polish Jewish lawyer, Raphael Lemkin, coined the term “genocide” to describe what had been done to the Armenians and what was happening in the Second World War to our own people in Europe.

 

A Czech Jewish novelist, Franz Werfel, wrote The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, a bestseller about the successful armed resistance of Armenian villagers to Turkish deportation orders. The book inspired both our Warsaw Ghetto fighters in 1943 and our Haganah as it prepared to fight a last stand on Carmel if the Nazis broke through to the Land of Israel.

 

In the wake of World War I, the Western powers courted Turkish friendship in the crusade against Communism. The United States abandoned its policy of advocacy of the destitute, homeless survivors of the Armenian massacres. At the eastern edge of historical Armenia, in the Soviet-ruled Transcaucasus, a little Soviet Armenian survivor state was founded.

 

 

It used to be said of Israel that it had more nightmares per square block than any other country. Armenia was somewhat like this: broken people beset by memories of horror, trying to plant trees, build cities, and make a new life. In Israel, we made the desert bloom; the Armenians did the same on their rocky soil, but they had to contend with collectivization, Stalinist purges, the heavy hand of Big Brother to the north, and the attentive ear of the secret police.

 

When the Soviet Union broke up, extreme nationalist ideologies and religious extremism rushed into minds vacated by seven decades of enforced Communist dogma. Pent up ethnic tensions erupted into war both inside and between many former Soviet republics, including the neighbors Armenia and Azerbaijan. The two newly-independent countries went to war over the Armenian-majority enclave of Karabagh in Azerbaijan, whose population had demanded autonomy. Some thirty thousand lives were lost; and the Armenians gained both Karabagh and a wide strategic buffer zone of the surrounding districts. Nearly a million Azerbaijani refugees were forced to flee their homes and farms.

 

Oil-rich, pro-Western Azerbaijan, which borders Iran, meanwhile became a trading partner and ally of Israel, offering our air force parking space near the Iranian border. The present Iranian regime spews anti-Semitic calumny and vows to destroy Israel: after World War II it would be insane not to take such existential threats seriously. Moreover, there is a large and very old Jewish community in Azerbaijan. We stress here that we do not take issue with the vital national interests of our country and we offer no apology to anyone on earth for defending ourselves.

 

In the autumn of 2020, Azerbaijan launched a war to retake Karabagh. Russia sold arms to both sides; Turkey massively supported Azerbaijan with men and materiel, including high-tech drones; and Israel, too, sold drones and other materiel to its ally. Russia has a defense pact with Armenia, but since Armenia proper was not invaded, Putin chose to stand aside. In this way he was perhaps pursuing a longer-term strategy of wooing Turkey away from NATO.

 

Azerbaijan inflicted a crushing and total defeat on the Armenians: Russia stepped in at the last moment to broker a ceasefire agreement and station some peacekeeping forces of its army in the area. This was not Israel’s war. We have correct relations with Armenia. We should not be taking sides.

 

Antisemitism is deep-rooted and endemic in Armenia, though no more so than it is in most Christian societies. Several of us, scholars in Armenian studies, have experienced such prejudice first hand and on numerous occasions. Unsurprisingly, the recent war served as a pretext for such attacks on Israel, notably in social media. Azerbaijan took advantage of this to mount a propaganda offensive in the Jewish and Israeli media. Articles ostensibly by various authors from different places seem, interestingly, all to harp on the same two or three points.

 

 

These articles mention recent vandalism of the modest Holocaust memorial in the Armenian capital, Erevan. That is true; but it would be hard to name a country, sadly, whose Holocaust memorials have not been vandalized. Not to justify vandalism at all, one still must point out that the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and research center in Israel carefully avoids all mention of the Armenian Genocide in its exhibits, despite the fact that Hitler was inspired by it in making his plans for the Final Solution. The more we know about the history of the Nazi movement, the more important a prototype – the murder of the Armenians – becomes.

 

The other main point the articles make is that Armenia erects statues and otherwise reveres the memory of Garegin Nzhdeh, a leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, or Dashnaktsutyun, who formed and commanded an Armenian unit in the Nazi army. In America in the 1930s, the Dashnaks organized a youth movement called the Race Worship Society. Although the party had a wide popular base and most Dashnaks did not participate in terrorist acts, its policies were often extremist. Dashnak hit men stabbed to death a survivor of the Armenian Genocide, Archbishop Ghevont Tourian, in his church in New York while he was celebrating Mass on Christmas. His crime? He had voiced support for tiny, newborn Soviet Armenia. Thousands of Armenian Americans were outraged by the murder, many were in uniform fighting Hitler a few years later.

 

But here’s the thing. An Armenian boy, also a survivor, was among the thousands of horrified worshippers who witnessed the murder in the Holy Cross Church of Armenia in upper Manhattan. His name was Avedis Derounian, and the crime inspired him to vow to fight fascism in his adopted country, America. Using the name John Roy Carlson, he infiltrated a number of extreme right-wing, antisemitic organizations: the America Firsters, the Silver Shirts, the German-American Bund, the supporters of Father Coughlin and Charles Lindbergh. His book, Under Cover, became a bestseller and wakened Americans to the menace of Nazi sedition at home. After the war, Derounian went to the Middle East: his book From Cairo to Damascus exposes the close ties of the corrupt Arab regimes to escaped Nazi war criminals hoping to finish the job by destroying Israel. Derounian, hounded by red-baiting Dashnaks during the McCarthy era (the Dashnaks have since rebranded themselves as “leftist” and “progressive”), lived out his remaining years in quiet obscurity, often spending his days in the B’nai Brith library. The Azeri propagandists prefer to forget Derounian. But should we?

 

We agree that what Nzhdeh did was criminal. But he is being commemorated in Armenia, not for his record in World War II but for his previous military role in the defense of the nascent first Armenian Republic after the Genocide of 1915.

 

 

And it’s easy to twist a story: most of the Armenians who were recruited into the Nazi Wehrmacht were Red Army prisoners of war who would have been killed in concentration camps, had they not joined his unit. For most of them it was the only way to avoid certain death; and many used it to escape back to the Soviet lines. These desertions made Hitler so mistrustful of the Armenian division of the Wehrmacht that he had it assigned the dangerous and important task… of guarding vineyards in the south of France. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Soviet Armenians gave their lives in the fight against Hitler, rolling into battle in tanks with the name of the medieval Armenian epic hero David of Sasun painted on their sides. Many fought under Marshal Baghramian, commander of the Byelorussian front.

 

And back in France, north of those vineyards, a poet, factory worker, and survivor of the Armenian Genocide named Missak Manouchian was tasked by the Communist party with forming a unit to carry out especially dangerous missions for the Resistance. His comrades were Polish Jews and Spanish Civil War refugees. Manouchian and his fellow fighters for freedom were captured by the Gestapo, tortured, and killed. For years, Manouchian and his men were not thought “French” enough to be recognized by the country they died for. Now the propagandists of Azerbaijan, in painting the Armenians as Nazis, desecrate their memory anew.

 

It is easy to use a fact to tell a lie, as the Azerbaijan apologists do. We prefer to provide the truthful context to those facts, and to record the other facts that they omit. That is the difference between scholarship and propaganda, between truth and lies.

 

Azerbaijan is presented in this propaganda campaign as the best friend of the Jewish people. Again, that is not the true picture. We will adduce but one instance in which an Azeri community acted with deliberate and gratuitous hostility towards a defenceless Jew. Lev Nussimbaum grew up in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, and moved after the Russian Revolution to Berlin. He converted to Islam, took the name Kurban Said, and published a romantic novel, Ali and Nino. The hero is a Muslim boy; and the villain of the book is a rich Armenian with a big, black, long, powerful… car. During the years of the Nazi regime, the local Azerbaijani community in Germany kept fingering poor Mr. Said to the Gestapo as a Jew. He escaped to Italy and survived there, miraculously, in hiding. You will not find this unedifying incident in the panegyrics to Azerbaijani philo-Semitism.

 

 

We cannot address all the misinformation streaming out of Baku. But we would like to declare here that we, precisely as Jews and Israelis, support the right of the Armenian people to live as a free nation in their home land. We respect their ancient, honorable, unique culture. We condemn the hateful slander directed against them. We also condemn all expressions of antisemitism, regardless of their pretext. We oppose aggression against the Armenians and believe our country should have no part of it. We will stand by their side.

 

The first casualty of war is truth. We know this; and we know, too, the old Hasidic saying that the truth is ubiquitous because wherever it tries to live, people run it out of town. And we can add to the dossier this Armenian proverb: If you tell the truth, keep one foot in the stirrup. (That is, so you can make a fast getaway.)

 

There have been many wars, and they keep on happening because truth is a casualty in all of them. But the truth, rather like us, the People of the Book, can’t be killed. It keeps coming back. The dictators Putin and Erdogan can do what they please in their unhappy countries, sacrificing the innocents to play their dirty games, but not here. We will not let Azerbaijan’s propaganda factory, however much oil money it pays its agents, run the truth out of Israel. And we have both feet out of the stirrups and planted firmly on this ground: we will continue to bear witness to the truth and we are not going anywhere, either.

Signed:

James Russell, Mashtots Professor emeritus of Armenian Studies, Harvard University

Michael Stone, Professor emeritus of Armenian Studies and of Comparative Religion, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Yoav Loeff, Instructor in Armenian Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Oded Steinberg,, Lecturer in International Relations and European Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Reuven Amitai, Professor of Middle Eastern History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 
 


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Posted 23 March 2021 - 07:29 AM

Public Radio of Armenia
March 22 2021
 
 
Posters presenting Armenian heritage as Azerbaijani removed from London metro
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After the formal complaints put forward by the Embassy of Armenia as well as the UK-Armenian community organizations, the offensive posters at the London Underground, displaying Armenian historical and cultural heritage as Azerbaijani, have now been removed from the Transport for London (TfL) network, the Armenian Embassy in UK informs. 

 

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Posted 23 March 2021 - 07:32 AM

Asbarez.com
 
U.S. Religious Freedom Body Places Azerbaijan on ‘Watch List’

March 22, 2021

 
 
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The bombing of Ghazanchetots Cathedral by Azerbaijan was cited by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended that the State Department place Azerbaijan on its Special Watch List for its ongoing and systematic religious freedom violations. The report also cites the Azerbaijani attack on Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shushi.

The country update also details the many obstacles posed by mandatory registration and other restrictions on religious communities, the continued imprisonment of religious activists, and recent violations committed in the context of the renewed conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.

The report highlights that during the renewed conflict in Nagorno Karabakh in 2020, the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shushi was hit twice by Azerbaijani forces. In December, Human Rights Watch concluded that the attack was intentional, constituting a war crime that should be investigated and prosecuted.

“The announcement of a ceasefire in early November formalized the territorial gains Azerbaijan had made militarily, and it set a staggered timeline for the cession of additional territories to Azerbaijan—raising concerns about the protection of various churches, monasteries, cemeteries, and other religious and cultural sites scattered throughout the region,” said the report.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev reportedly gave assurances to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, that the country would protect Christian churches in these areas. However, some sites, such as a cemetery situated alongside an Armenian church in Hadrut, have already been vandalized, said the report. In late November, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization reiterated a call for the protection of heritage sites in the area, and it proposed dispatching a preliminary field mission to produce an inventory of such sites “as a prerequisite for effective protection of the region’s heritage.”

According the report, religious freedom in Azerbaijan remains severely impeded by problematic legislation, particularly the country’s 2009 law “On Freedom of Religious Beliefs,” which the government has shown little interest in revising.

 

 

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Posted 25 March 2021 - 07:46 AM

Oil and bribe money hides the truth and keeps the world silent!

Panorama, Armenia

March 24 2021
 
 
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Society 15:38 24/03/2021Region
Azerbaijani blogger: If Aliyev attempts to behead his own citizen in France, how can he guaranty the safety of Armenians in Karabakh?

Azerbaijani blogger Mahammad Mirzali, who is living in exile in France and was attacked days ago, shared of photo from a hospital on Twitter with a message: "If Ilham Aliyev attempts to have his own citizen beheaded in France, how can he guaranty the safety of Armenian’s in Karabakh?" 

To remind, Mahammad Mirzali, an Azerbaijani blogger and critic of the Azerbaijani president, has been stabbed by a group of unknown men in the city of Nantes. The reports said that the attackers attempted to cut out his tongue. Regional French news outlet Ouest France reported on the incident without naming Mirzali.  

"I.Aliyev is a vicious dictator who had my family arrested to silence me. My brother-in-law was arrested and beaten up.I was being blackmailed by my sister’s intimate video recorded by the government. At last I was stabbed  and almost beheaded in France. Ilham Alivev must be held accountable," Mirzali said in another tweet. 

 

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Posted 25 March 2021 - 07:53 AM

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Azerbaijan trying to eradicate or distort Artsakh’s millennia-old cultural heritage – Armenian FM

 
 
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YEREVAN, MARCH 24, ARMENPRESS. Armenia highlights the creation of the commission on cultural diplomacy, ARMENPRESS reports Foreign Minister of Armenia Ara Ayvazian announced at the National Assembly, answering the question of MP Tatevik Hayrapetyan about the goals of the commission.

‘’Now more than ever the development of our international cooperation and our involvement in the international community is important. In this sense, culture, as a factor of soft power, has a very important role and by the creation of this platform we submit a claim on making our culture an important factor in our diplomatic arsenal'', Ayvazian said.

 
 

Referring to the elimination of the Armenian historical heritage by Azerbaijan, Ayvazian noted that promotion of culture in the international arena is the key task of the commission.

‘’Artsakh’s historical-cultural heritage is the inseparable part of the universal culture. And its elimination, desecration or distortion must be strictly prevented. Both this platform and our every-day contacts are aimed the solution of this issue with international efforts.

It’s known that a full eviction of Armenians from the territories of Artsakh that have passed under Azerbaijani control has taken place. And today the elimination of cultural heritage has started, attempting to eliminate or distort the millennia-old cultural heritage of Artsakh and its belonging’’, the FM said.

 

 

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Posted 26 March 2021 - 08:25 AM

Yahoo! News
March 25 2021
 
 
 
Why did this church disappear?
Thu, March 25, 2021, 1:33 AM
 
 

 

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BBC correspondent Jonah Fisher investigates the disappearance of an Armenian church that changed hands in the recent Nagorno-Karabakh war. An online video shows the church was intact when Azerbaijan took back the disputed territory. Azerbaijan has said ethnic Armenians are welcome to stay in Nagorno-Karabakh but Armenia has accused it of damaging and destroying Armenian cultural heritage left behind in the region, including churches and monuments. Both sides accuse the other of war crimes. Video journalist: Abdujalil Abdurasulov

Video Transcript

- What does the map say?

JONAH FISHER: Well, the map says it should be on the top of here.

- [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

- I think you show him the map.

JONAH FISHER: Yeah, a little bit further. OK, look. Just a little bit further on, there.

Well, the map says it should be on the top of here. Which seems rather unlikely. OK, so this looks to me like it could have been where that church was. OK, look here. It was definitely here. So we can see from the trees here, they're a very definite shape. You can see them over there, they match.

What happened to the church?

- What happened was the-- [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

- During the war it was destroyed.

JONAH FISHER: It can't have been destroyed during the war, because there are videos of the Azeris here.

- [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

- No, it wouldn't happen.

- [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

- They destroyed it themselves.

JONAH FISHER: Can I show you something from when we went there? You can see it's been totally destroyed.

HIKMET HAJIYEV: Because it's a proper geolocation, I don't know. It needs to be checked. A policy of occupation was committed by Armenia against Azerbaijani people. And you have seen the level of destruction in Jabrayil, Fuzuli. More than eight cities of Azerbaijan have been destroyed. It's like a Hiroshima, or nuclear bomb, massive, has been used.

- [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

- [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

JONAH FISHER: Perhaps you'd like to apologize for what Armenia did in those occupied territories?

ARA AIVAZIAN: During the war, there were, you know, wrongdoings on every side. If there was any case, it was, let's say, an individual approach. It was not a state policy about that.

JONAH FISHER: Having been there, can I just say, it looks very systematic.

ARA AIVAZIAN: The same happens now in the territories that fall under control of Azerbaijan, particularly in the villages and cities of Hadrut region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

- [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

- [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

- [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

 
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Posted 26 March 2021 - 08:28 AM

Public Radio of Armenia
March 25 2021
 
 
Armenian Commission for UNESCO condemns ISIS-style destruction of monuments by Azerbaijan
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Armenian National Commission for UNESCO has strongly condemned yet another act of cultural crime by Azerbaijan.

“Armenian monuments of Artsakh under Azerbaijani occupation are vandalized and destroyed in ISIS-style,” the Commission said on social media.

The comments come after the BBC found out the Armenian Holy Mother of God church disappeared after Azerbaijani got control over it. Destruction was complete. The same church was vandalized during the recent Azerbaijani aggression.

“The disappeared Armenian Church became a victim of an act of vandalism in the first place,” the Commission said. 

 


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Posted 27 March 2021 - 07:42 AM

Panorama, Armenia
March 26 2021
 
 
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Culture 12:21 26/03/2021Armenia
‘In liberated Artsakh Azeris' graves were not being destroyed’: Reference to BBC report

“In liberated Artsakh Azeris' graves were not being destroyed,” Facebook user Narine Arzumanyan said on Friday, referring to a part of the BBC News report “Nagorno-Karabakh: The mystery of the missing church”, which claimed the Armenians had allegedly destroyed the graves of Azerbaijanis.

“BBC News yesterday showed the totally demolished Armenian church in the territory of Artsakh occupied by Azerbaijan and then, to equate, some stones that Azerbaijanis were collecting and presenting as "ruined-by-Armenians-grave".

“These photos were taken at archeological site of Tigranakert in Artsakh years ago,” Arzumanyan wrote, sharing the photos.

BBC correspondent Jonah Fisher has investigated the disappearance of an Armenian church that fell under the control of Azerbaijan in the recent Nagorno-Karabakh war. An online video shows Zoravor Surb Astvatsatsin Church near the town of Mekhakavan (Jebrayil) was intact when Azerbaijan occupied the territory.

“Azerbaijan has said ethnic Armenians are welcome to stay in Nagorno-Karabakh but Armenia has accused it of damaging and destroying Armenian cultural heritage left behind in the region, including churches and monuments. Both sides accuse the other of war crimes,” the BBC reported. 

 

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Posted 28 March 2021 - 08:13 AM

Public Radio of Armenia
March 27 2021
 
 
Azerbaijani soldiers vandalize 19th century Armenian church
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Armenia’s Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan has shared footage showing Azerbaijani sodliers vandalizing the St. Yeghishe Armenian Church in Mataghis, Artsakh (19th century).

“The Azerbaijani servicemen (the Turkish flag is also clearly visible on the uniform) are cynically vandalizing the Armenian church, openly showing the deliberate insult to the church and knowing that the church is Armenian,” the Ombudsman said.

“It is obvious that this is an act of open hatred, both on ethnic and religious grounds. Moreover, this is not a separate case, but a result of years of systematic policy of hatred and enmity in Azerbaijan, which continues today,” Tatoyan said.

The Human Rights Defender will present this case to the international bodies, noting that it is another proof that a policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide against Armenians was carried out in Artsakh in September-November 2020.

 

https://en.armradio....rmenian-church/

 

 





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