Azerbaijan's Suicide

[Aratta-Kingdom]

SHORT MOMENT OF VICTORY, OR DRANG NACH VESTEN!

 

 

 

Ilham Aliyev, whose hereditary-impressive walk, according to Sheikh-ul-Islam gaji Allah Shukur *****-zade, is pleasing to Allah, will not walk any more. He will march. He will creep, fly, soar up upwards and entrench. Moreover, he will rend the air with inflammatory speeches raising working masses on a sacred struggle Armenian nation. An ardent tribune Aliyev stated: ‘’Azerbaijan must attack Armenia in all directions – political, economic and diplomatic, as well as in the sphere of propaganda’’.

So, all Azeri enterprises will work under their own slogans demonstrating the workers’ contribution to the state task’s solution. For instance, the factory of air-conditioners already works under slogan ‘’ Cool Armenians’ Heat!’’. Oil industry workers added to their armory a slogan: ‘’ Blacken Armenia!’’. Transparencies, under which dustmen sweep Baku streets, run: ‘’ Sweep out Pacifists!’’. The jewelers’ motto is: ‘’Ring All Armenians!’’. Azeri Ambassadors must post up the words of a well-known hymn ‘’Our indignant mind is boiling!’’ over Ilham Aliyev’s portrait.

Journalists, who are always flaunting their independence, failed to find a common motto. They divided into three groups working at various columns, one of which is ‘’Blacken Armenians!’’, a plagiarism usual for graphomaniacs. Two other groups formed by better educated journalists work over columns ‘’ Load Us with Money’’ and ‘’Feather for Lightness’’.

War! This short word has stirred up all the strata of Azeri society: from port loaders to Presidential administrations’ officials. In the course of a sitting held in Bailov jail prisoners have adopted a resolution: ‘’We are eager to redeem our fault with blood!’’

It is rumored that boys and girls will be called up since the age of 12 and 13 correspondingly. The young soldiers stride along Baku streets singing a new hit: ‘’Ranks of soldiers were walking to heaven from Heydarplyatte’’.

Maternity hospitals urge: ‘’Azerbaijan needs heroes! Don’t give birth to ordinary people!’’

A patriotic singer Aygun Kazimova begs an old man to give her a uniform Azeris were wearing while deserting from the battle fronts during Great Patriotic War: she must sing a new song written by E. Agalarov – His Presidential Majesty’s son-in-law. The song’s called:’’Embracing my sweet heart, I’m dreaming of Karabagh’’.

Loud-speakers situated in each corner repeat Ilham Aliyev's yells:

''Priority to military expenses! Azerbaijan is at war! Drang nach Vesten!''

The mass are shouting: ''Hurrah!'' and ''Yashasyn''!

Suddenly everything becomes quiet. Someone is still mechanically crying ''Yashasyn!'', however, no one supports him. Is it a glorious way? Walk a little along such a way, and...

Enthusiasm has subsided. The war is over. There is nothing but sad memories of a short moment of victory.

[arziv]

Birds of a feather flock together, the turkic and hebrew races are joined in the hip. Expect trouble from either quarter. Be vigilant, armed to the teeth and make them aware that messing with Armenia will bears an unaffordable cost. The Turks and Hebrews have all to loose, the Armenians can deploy mobile forces and create mayhem and havoc with the Azeri oilfelds, they may even capture them with Russian and Iranian backing.

[AK-47]

"Azerbaijan" recently held a military parade, the video is here (in 8 parts)

 

[Arpa]

"Azerbaijan" recently held a military parade, the video is here (in 8 parts)

 

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Yeah! Yeah!

When did those apes learn where to place the butt of their guns?

Is ankara the capital of azer-baboonjan?

Wait till ankara is POW! sent back to the moon/crescent where they came from. May it be the deserts Gobi or the Spas of Germany.

Edited June 28, 2008 by Arpa

[phantom22]

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Obama will pick a shocking VP, who is totally dedicated to the Armenian Cause, and who will help him reach the White House.

[MadArmo]

While you guys chat here and make a lot of noise, OUTCASTS such as myself are making major inroads for the Armenian Cause. I have single-handedly revolutionized Armenian-American power in the US government processes.

 

Obama will pick a shocking VP, who is totally dedicated to the Armenian Cause, and who will help him reach the White House.

 

 

I will ... Obama is the only answer to combat anti Armenian propaganda. Phantom , I'm glad your supporting him, It's clear his going to support our cause no matter who makes noise .

 

btw, People, I am a registered Republican...

[Aratta-Kingdom]

BUSH'S LEGACY: AUTOCRACY IN AZERBAIJAN

Sinead Walsh

 

Trinity News

http://www.trinitynews.ie/index.php/opinio...y-in-azerbaijan

Nov 10 2008

Ireland

 

The US presidential race is run and the question on most people's

lips is whether or not George W. Bush intends to go out with a bang;

with the recent raid on Syria having fuelled much speculation on

the subject. Well, here's one of his plans, revealed in a letter

written to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev which was published

on the Today.az website on October 28: "In the coming few months

we will strive for deepening the bilateral partnership and friendly

relations between our countries. In particular, we hope for further

advancement towards our goals in the sphere of global energy security

and attainment of agreements on basic principles of the resolution

of Nagorno Karabakh conflict."

 

Given that Russian President Dmitri Medvedev beat Mr. Bush in the

race to host Mr. Aliyev and his Armenian counterpart in talks aimed

at preventing the frozen Karabakh conflict from escalating into a

South Ossetia-style crisis, Bush is left with one priority - draining

Azerbaijan of all the oil he can get and shoring up NATO influence

in the region, while turning a blind eye to political realities in

the Caucasian country sandwiched between Russia, Turkey and Iran;

and faced with a staggering refugee and IDP (internally displaced

persons) problem.

 

The occasion of Bush's foray into the sophisticated world of

letter-writing was Mr. Aliyev's re-inauguration as president following

elections on October 15. According to official statistics, 3,232,259

people - that is to say, over 87% of the 75% of the electorate who

showed up at polling stations - voted for Mr. Aliyev. Not one of

his six rivals received even three percent of the vote. The main

opposition parties all boycotted the elections in protest against what

the the Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe(OSCE)

called a "lack of robust competition and vibrant political discourse

facilitated by the media". All in all, a pretty poor return on attempts

to democratize the post-Communist country. But nonetheless, Mr. Bush

saw fit to congratulate Mr. Aliyev on the results and even express

his support for efforts at "strengthening democratic institutions".

 

It's hard to imagine any of Mr. Bush's Cold War predecessors

sending a similar letter to Mr. Aliyev's father, Heydar, a man

who ruled Azerbaijan for over thirty years in both its Soviet and

post-Soviet form. In 2003, the dying Mr. Heydar transferred power to

his son in an election which was characterized by violence and other

violations of democratic norms. Since then, Mr. Ilham has cashed in

on his father's legacy, sponsoring a cult known to its critics as

Heydarism. Everywhere one goes in Azerbaijan - after one's arrival at

the Heydar Aliyev airport - one finds Heydar Aliyev streets, Heydar

Aliyev squares, Heydar Aliyev monuments, Heydar Aliyev schools,

libraries and cultural centres. Along the roadsides, Heydar smiles

down from enormous billboards, occasionally accompanied by his son in

pictures of the two of them gazing out over building sites in Baku

and oil rigs in the Caspian, or enjoying a talk in an impressive

looking office. I was lucky enough to be in Baku to celebrate what

would have been Heydar's 85th birthday - had he lived. The cult of

personality surrounding Mr. Heydar - and, by extension, his son -

reminded me irresistibly of the traces of the cult to Lenin that

remain indelibly marked on Russian towns. The difference being that

the Lenin cult is so old it has become a quaint sort of novelty,

whereas Heydarism is terrifyingly current.

 

A few stories from the past twelve months serve to demonstrate the

limited reach of efforts to democratize the Azerbaijani media. This

time last year, members of the Azadliq (Freedom) opposition block and

independent media representatives were on hunger strike, protesting

their lack of a free press. At the time, journalist Eynulla Fatullayev

had just been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison on

charges of threatening terrorism, inciting racial hatred, and tax

evasion. This followed an article he had written suggesting that

Azerbaijan would be at risk in the event of U.S. military strikes

in Iran, and implying that the authorities were obstructing the

investigation into the murder of Elmar Husseynov, the editor of the

Russian language newspaper Monitor who was assassinated in 2005. Part

of the evidence against Fatullayev was an article posted online in

his name, but which he denies having written, accusing Azerbaijani

troops of participating in the 1992 killings of inhabitants of the

Nagorno-Karabakh town of Khojali.

 

In December 2007 Mr. Aliyev pardoned five out of the eight journalists

then facing jail (Mr. Fatullayev wasn't one of them). However, the

following March, courts went on to sentence Ganimat Zahidov, editor

of the Azadliq newspaper, to four years in prison for "deliberately

causing light injuries" and "hooliganism". Key witnesses were

prevented from testifying at his trial. In his final speech, he made

the following statement: "The mind of the 21st century calls on the

state to be the locomotive of progress and direct the community

towards the most progressive ideas. We live in Azerbaijan and we

are engaged in media activities. We do our best to establish the

traditions of media in our country in a way which will correspond to

international standards. But we have to do that taking the risk of

death, being beaten half-dead, or arrested because of the articles

we wrote. Why? Why does the logic of the 17th century shows up to

this degree in the present governance of Azerbaijan?"

 

The run-up to October's election was notable for Ilham Aliyev's -

and the late Heydar's - dominance of the media, and a general sense of

fatigue amongst the opposition. Following the election, the opposition

also cancelled protest rallies after being denied permission to

assemble by authorities in Baku, no doubt remembering the widespread

arrests and beatings that followed the fraudulent 2003 election. Then

on November 1st it was announced that the State Council for Television

and Radio Broadcasting intended to put a stop to local broadcasts by

Radio Liberty, Voice of America and the BBC. The body's chairman said

that it was now policy to broadcast only programs of national origin,

adding that these stations would remain accessible by satellite,

cable and Internet. Bearing in mind that in their 2007 report,

which classified Azerbaijan as not free, Freedom House estimated that

only 10% of the population has Internet access, this will be another

significant strike against the media in Azerbaijan if it comes to pass.

 

Through all of this, Elmar Husseynov's murder has remained unsolved.

 

Along with the bigger headaches inherited from the Bush administration,

Mr. Obama will also have to deal with the problems posed by states such

as the overlooked, oil-rich, illiberal and uncompromisingly nationalist

Azerbaijan. It may be that Azerbaijan will remain an overlooked ally

of the oil-hungry superpower, just as it was in Clinton's day. Or

it may be that Mr. Obama will push Mr. Aliyev closer to Moscow,

sacrificing a strategic foothold in the Caucasus to criticize the

increasingly repressive Aliyev dynasty.

 

It should prove interesting. After all, they say you should judge a

man by how he treats his servants, not his equals.

 

[Aratta-Kingdom]

LONG, DIRTY ROAD TO AZERBAIJAN

By Scott Taylor

 

The Chronicle Herald

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Columnists/1092168.html

Nov 24 2008

Canada

 

LAST MONTH, as I left Canada for the Caucasus, my primary objective

was to enter South Ossetia.

 

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this region has

fiercely resisted the authority of the Republic of Georgia. In the past

17 years, ethnic Ossetians have clashed four times with their Georgian

neighbours. The most recent bloodletting began with a Georgian army

offensive on Aug. 7 that eventually provoked a major Russian military

intervention in the disputed territory.

 

With a population of just 25,000 people, a militia still fully

mobilized and coping with post-battle destruction of catastrophic

proportions, the new government in the South Ossetian capital of

Tskhinvali obviously had more pressing concerns than the establishment

of a media liaison office.

 

As such, my arrival at the Russian-Ossetian border post was cause for

concern among the local officials. There was no translation required

during most of our appeals to the border officials, as I understood

the word "nyet" and the raised hand gesture removed any further doubts.

 

For three days in a row we would drive two hours from Vladikavkaz

through the long, narrow mountain pass that connects North Ossetia,

Russia, to South Ossetia. We would arrive in hopeful anticipation that

the previous night's barrage of emails and phone calls had shifted

the border chief's resolve. When we heard the "nyet" and saw the hand

raised, we would settle into a day-long routine of endless cups of

tea from the roadside merchants.

 

We quickly decided against eating any food during these extended

delays as the public toilet at the border was without a doubt the

world's dirtiest. Each night when the border finally closed, we drove

back to Vladikavkaz.

 

Hope was waning, but because we had already invested so much time

and effort in the venture and the Russian embassy in Ottawa had a

duty officer working around the clock to assist us, we agreed to give

it one last shot. When we were finally granted passage, everyone at

the border post seemed surprised, including the tea ladies who had

suggested that a "fee" of $300 each would help unlock the doors.

 

We finally entered the conflict zone and, as detailed in previous

reports, were finally able to describe the war crimes committed by

the Georgian troops in those first days of their offensive.

 

But the delay in the schedule meant I had to forfeit my planned

excursion to the Georgian side of the conflict lines. Instead, I was

able to buy a ticket to fly directly from Mineralnye Vody, Russia,

to Baku, Azerbaijan.

 

Upon my arrival in Baku, I presented my passport to the immigration

officer, confident that I had a valid visa and I was entering

Azerbaijan on an official invitation to give a speech at the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs University. Those credentials went up

in smoke when the officer asked me incredulously, "You have been to

Nagorno-Karabakh?" She shouted for assistance and I was hurriedly

escorted by police into a private office for questioning.

 

The ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh proclaimed their independence

from Azerbaijan in 199, at about the same time that Azerbaijan seceded

from the Soviet Union. A bloody war ensued, and although a ceasefire

was brokered in 1994, Azerbaijan never relinquished formal claim to

Nagorno-Karabakh. Having a visa from this disputed territory was a

definite no-no in Azerbaijan.

 

Thanks to some frantic calls from the embassy in Ottawa and direct

intervention by their deputy minister of foreign affairs, my late

Saturday-night detention at the airport was limited to only a few

hours.

 

The normal routine under such circumstances would be a KGB

interrogation followed by official deportation. I was lucky.

 

( staylor@herald.ca)

 

Scott Taylor is the publisher of Esprit de Corps military magazine

and author of several books.

 

[Yervant1]

AZERBAIJAN THREATENS TO CUT GAS SUPPLY TO TURKEY IN CASE ARMENIA BORDER OPENS

 

armradio.am

02.04.2009 10:58

 

Concerned that the Turkish government might open its border with

Armenia before reconciliation is reached, the Azerbaijani government

has signaled it might stop selling natural gas to Turkey, Hurriyet

Saily reported.

 

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev told third parties that Baku would

cut gas supplies to Turkey if Ankara reaches an agreement with Yerevan

before substantial progress is underway on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue,

the Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review has learned. As a sign of

how serious it is, Azerbaijan signed a memorandum of understanding

with Russia last week for long-term supply of gas at market prices.

 

Turkey and Armenia are said to have come very close to an agreement

on the timetable to normalize relations. This development in turn

has upset the Azerbaijani government, which argues a decision to open

Turkey's borders with Armenia would leave Baku at a disadvantage in

negotiating for the withdrawal of Armenian troops from Azerbaijani

territory. The ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP,

has been the target of severe criticism in the Azerbaijani press

with commentators there accusing the Turkish government of selling

out. The Turkish Foreign Ministry has been informed that Aliyev has

told third parties that were Turkey to open its borders to Armenia,

cooperation on energy suppl ies would end.