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    PATRICK WILSON GORE: STALIN'S ANNEXATION OF KARABAKH TO AZERBAIJAN WAS DUE TO HIS "PARANOIA" OF ARMENIANS

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    10.06.2008 20:02 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ There is no evidence that the Armenians of Nagorno
    Karabakh committed "genocide" against Meskhetian Turks of Khojaly,
    Canadian military historian Patrick Wilson Gore said during the launch
    of his latest book "Tis Some Poor Fellow's Skull: Post-Soviet Warfare
    in the Southern Caucasus" at the embassy of the Republic of Armenia in
    Ottawa, independent French journalist Jean Eckian told PanARMENIAN.Net.

    Gore stated that Stalin's annexation of Nagorno Karabakh to Azerbaijan
    was due to his "paranoia" of Armenians and a secret deal between him
    and Ataturk, the Turkish dictator.

    The Canadian expert stated that for 70 years Armenians of Nagorno
    Karabakh were treated as second-class citizens under Azeri rule. The
    treatment of Armenians by Azeris was a classic case of ethnic
    cleansing.

    After the Sumgait and Baku massacres of Armenians in the early 1990s,
    the Armenians were forced to fight to defend their families and
    their lives.

    In regard to the Khojaly incident, Gore said "Azeri troops ran
    faster than the Meskhetian Turk civilians they had been using as
    human shields". Upon their retreat to Agdam, civilians of Khojaly
    were fired upon by the Azeri OMON garrison of Agdam, mistaking them
    for Armenian forces. He said that a day before the start of Khojaly
    battle, the Azeri forces executed 32 Armenian prisoners of war.

    Regarding the ongoing Azeri government threats of resumption of war
    to take Nagorno Karabakh, Gore said that "peace is for the benefit
    of both sides". It is true that the Azeri government is getting
    emboldened with its new-found oil wealth, but the Aliyev government
    has to "consider that their oil and gas pipelines run 30 km north
    of Nagorno Karabakh, and Azeris have invested heavily in their Baku
    facilities." Gore questioned whether Azeris want to jeopardize their
    vital pipelines and "risk their money sources."

    The author of the 139-page book is a Canadian specialist in military
    history and theory. He studied at Oxford, and subsequently graduated
    from the National Defense College at Kingston, one of NATO's senior
    command colleges. Much of his career has focused on strategic
    intelligence. This is his eleventh book. He used to be paratrooper
    and marine commando.
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