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    AZERBAIJAN SPREADS LIES TO AVOID ACCOUNTABILITY

    http://massispost.com/?p=5747
    Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

    February 26-29, 1988 were the days when Azerbaijani authorities
    organized and committed mass-pogroms and massacres against the Armenian
    population in Sumgait, Azerbaijan. It was the first ethnic cleansing
    campaign that Azeri nationalists committed in response to peaceful
    manifestation of Karabakh Armenians for self-determination.

    Going unpunished, it became a precursor for further bloody episodes
    of ethic cleansings perpetrated by Azeri authorities in Kirovabad,
    Mingechaur, Baku and elsewhere around Azerbaijan along with later
    full-scale military aggression against the Nagorno Karabakh Republic,
    Artsakh.

    In a result of genocidal actions of Azerbaijan's authority in Sumgait,
    dozens of Armenians were brutally killed, majority of whom were
    set afire alive after being beaten and tortured. Official number
    of victims stated 36, while other independent sources reported more
    than a hundred victims. Global media including the New York Times,
    Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times and many others also reported
    about those bloody days of Sumgait.

    That crime against humanity committed by the Azerbaijani government
    has remained unpunished. No adequate political and legal evaluation was
    provided due to the lack of interest of the Central Soviet government
    in restoring the truth and punishing real organizers. A few criminal
    cases and sentencing of a couple of hooligans were only aimed at
    slurring over those crimes.

    Instead of repenting for its actions, Azerbaijan tries to escape
    responsibility for committing the Sumgait genocide by shifting
    attention to the Armenian side. The Azerbaijani government
    continues misinforming global community by spreading outrageous
    lies about the killings of civilians of Khojaly by Armenian
    forces[http://xocali.net/EN/index.html]. In reality, those innocent
    Azeri civilians, who managed to leave Khojaly area of military actions
    via peace corridor provided by Armenian forces, were cold-heartedly
    killed by Azeri Popular Front's troops near Azerbaijan-controlled
    Aghdam, a town seven miles away from Khojaly, for the internal struggle
    for control of power in the oil-rich Azerbaijan.

    Today, the international community risks repeating the
    mistakes of the central Soviet government by not condemning
    the Armenian genocide in Sumgait, but also crimes against
    [http://nkr.am/en/news/2012-02-24/411/]its own Azeri people. Today's
    bellicose rhetoric and aggressive policy of Azerbaijan is a direct
    result of the lack of conviction of those crimes committed by
    Azerbaijan against humanity.

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