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    ARMENIANS DID NOT COMMIT "GENOCIDE" IN KHOJALY
    Jean Eckian

    KarabakhOpen
    10-06-2008 16:14:20

    "There is no evidence that the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabagh committed
    "genocide against Meskhetian Turks of Khojaly," said Canadian military
    historian Patrick Wilson Gore, 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.

    Gore stated that Saline's annexation of Nagorno-Karabagh 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-Karabagh 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-Karabagh, 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 Aliev government
    has to "consider that their oil and gas pipelines run 30 km north
    of Nagorno-Karabagh, 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 Defence 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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