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    PROJECT "AN ORDINARY GENOCIDE" A NEW FILM TO BE LAUNCHED

    Aysor.am
    Friday,December 03, 2010

    Another documentary is launched in the frameworks of the project
    "The Ordinary Genocide". The fourth project is dedicated to the
    20th anniversary of one of the most tragic pages in the history
    of the Karabakh movement "Operation "Koltso" (Ring), which will be
    memorialized in 2011.

    "Operation "Koltso", as a result of which the population of several
    tens of Armenian cities and villages of NKR and Shahumyan district
    were deported by force, was realized in April-July of 1991," the
    project manager of the "The Ordinary Genocide" Marina Grigoryan says,
    "Unfortunately, just like in case of the tragedy of the village
    Maragha, this heinous act of governmental terror against thousands of
    Armenian villagers is little known even in Armenia itself. Meanwhile,
    it was a large-scale punitive operation by the Soviet Centre and
    the Azerbaijani special police detachments (OMON) realized against
    the civilian population, through which the Azerbaijani leadership
    sought to implement its sinister goals: i.e. the extermination
    and proscription of the Armenians from their historical residence,
    depriving them from their motherland. Moreover, few people remember
    today that the population of the border-regions of Armenia - Goris,
    Noyemberian, Tavush and others - were subjected to violent actions
    implemented during this operation. The operation was carried out by
    the troops of the special police detachments of Azerbaijan, with
    unimaginable cruelty against the civilians - killings, torture,
    raping, hostage-taking, humiliation of human and national dignity,
    pogroms, looting and pillaging.

    "During the operation "Koltso" 26 Armenian villages and small towns
    in Shahumian, Hadrut and Shushi regions as well as the south and west
    of the Nagorno-Karabakh were subjected to severe pressure, rioting
    and looting by the Azerbaijani troops. About ten thousand people were
    deported, more than a hundred people died. More than six hundred men
    were taken to hostage, were tortured and abused. The military forces
    were followed by groups Azerbaijanis who violate from the neighboring
    settlements. They were confiscating the houses, the cars, the cattle
    and other property; they were taking the loot away by trucks. The
    statements and complaints of the Armenian people were not treated by
    anyone," wrote Victor Krivopuskov (advisor to the Russian Embassy in
    Armenia at present) in his book "Rebellious Karabakh."

    While working on the film unique documentary materials taken in
    spring and summer of 1991, were found. Video materials about the
    preparatory works of army units on attacking Getashen and Martunashen
    were found, as well as shots of besieged Armenian villages which were
    recorded on the very next day after the deportations which are an
    evidence of the villagers who have become the victims of pogroms,
    violence, torture and humiliation, and have lost their homes and
    property. The shots which are an incontrovertible evidence of the
    presence of millennial existence and centuries-old culture of the
    Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh territories occupied by Azerbaijan
    are particularly valuable.

    "It is not possible to watch the shots of the old cemetery Getashen
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TT2vhhi-ZA) without perturbation.

    There are depicted crooked cross-stones, reminding of the barbaric
    destruction of khachkars (cross-stones) of Old Jugha by the
    Azerbaijan. Most likely, khachkars of Getashen suffered the same sad
    fate," M. Grigoryan says. "The shots of the medieval cemetery of the
    village of Gulistan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI4kjgTYCbM) have
    been saved too with ancient tombstones, on which Armenian inscriptions
    are clearly visible, and the relatives of the deceased tell about
    their ancestors. All this, surely, will be included in the film and
    will be another convincing proof that it is Azerbaijan that still
    occupies the part of Nagorno Karabakh territory".

    Based on the extensiveness of the material and the dimensions of the
    spring-summer events in 1991, the film will likely consist of two
    parts. The premiere is scheduled on May 2011, when the commemoration
    day of the recurrent act of genocide against the Armenian people -
    a crime against the humanity- will be marked, which, undoubtedly,
    appears to be the Operation "Koltso".

    "The Ordinary Genocide" project is being realized by the support
    of the "Information and Public Relations Center" of the Armenian
    President. The première of the first three films - "Baku, January,
    1990", "Sumgait, February, 1988" and "Maragha, April, 1992" were shown
    in January, April and September 2010; the films are translated into
    several languages and are being spread in CD-ROM format as well as
    through internet.




    From: A. Papazian
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