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OUTRIGHT GENOCIDE
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Tuesday, 15 January 2013 09:36
23 years have passed since the Armenian pogroms of January 1990 in
Baku. An entire week - between January 13 and 19 - bloody events,
which didn't fit into a normal human mind, were taking place in the
Azerbaijani capital city of Baku, during which hundreds of Armenians
were killed with monstrous and savage cruelty. The January tragedy
in Baku was actually the apotheosis and the final link in the chain
of bloody crimes committed in 1988-1990 against the Armenian citizens
of the Republic. The result of the successive genocidal actions taken
by the Azerbaijani authorities in the late twentieth century was the
final expulsion of the half-million native and state-forming Armenian
population from Azerbaijan.
I must say that the pogroms, extermination, and expulsion of Armenians
in Soviet Azerbaijan were the logical continuation of the traditional
Turkish-Azerbaijani policy of genocide against our people. This is also
testified by the scheduled nature of the massive crimes committed
in 1988-1990 in Sumgait, Kirovabad, Baku and other towns. It is
important to note that the pogroms and expulsion of Armenians met
the interests not only of the nationalist authorities of Azerbaijan,
but also of the then Soviet leadership. Kremlin boss Gorbachev was
an ardent opponent of the Karabakh Movement, which, in fact, debunked
the myth of him as a true democrat, and so he looked indifferently at
the brutal beating of Armenians first in Sumgait and then in Baku. It
was with the criminal connivance of the top leadership of the USSR,
with Gorbachev at the head, that the authorities and Popular Front
of Azerbaijan could realize, with impunity, their inhuman plans on
the extermination and deportation of the Armenian population. As you
know, Gorbachev responded only when no Armenians were actually left
in Azerbaijan and the situation began to spiral out of control. The
power-seeking opposition Popular Front, headed by ardent supporter of
Pan-Turkism Elchibey, posed a serious threat to the very existence of
the Soviet regime in Azerbaijan. That's when, January 20, the "father
of perestroika" commissioned the units of the Soviet army to Baku,
but not for protecting the Armenian citizens, who by then, as noted,
had lacked in the city, but for saving the communist regime from
the roistering crowd of robbers and murderers of Armenians lead by
the Popular Front. That allowed later the Azerbaijani authorities to
falsify, in their usual manner, even the recent history and to present
the entry of the Soviet troops in Baku as an act of suppression of
the democratic movement of the Azerbaijani people fighting for freedom
and independence.
Today, those in Azerbaijan prefer to forget about the bloody events
taken place 23 years ago, about the killed and tortured Armenians.
Moreover, they continue to act pharisaically, arranging, on January
20, national honors for the thugs and murderers of Armenians in the
so-called "Alley of Shehids". That is, to make heroes of the crowds,
which, armed with axes and iron rods, went to kill, with the medieval
cruelty, the innocent people whose guilt was only in the fact that
they were born Armenians. To the deepest regret, the international
community has not condemned so far the actions of the Azerbaijani
authorities, which have not brought repentance to the Armenian people
yet. The Armenian pogroms of January 1990 in Baku became, as noted,
the latest criminal act of the Soviet period, but the series of crimes
by the Azerbaijani authorities did not stop with this. The impunity of
Azerbaijan partly led to the fact that the Baku regime, continuing the
policy of genocide, started a war of destruction against the NKR, which
had declared its independence, and today, Azerbaijan is threatening
to unleash a new war. There is no doubt that the acts of organized
crime, committed by Azerbaijan against the Armenian population,
fall entirely under the term "genocide". In support of this, let's
refer to Article II of the Convention on the Prevention of the Act
of Genocide and Punishment for this: "... genocide means any of the
following acts committed with the intent to exterminate, in whole or
in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such:
a) killing members of the group; b) causing serious bodily
injury (...) to members of the group; c) deliberate creation of
corresponding conditions for any group, with the aim of its full or
partial extermination".
One can easily see that the Armenian population of Azerbaijan, like
entire Nagorno-Karabakh, "passed" through all the above mentioned
points, as if through the circles of hell, as they experienced
pogroms and massacres, ethnic cleansing and deportation and then a
full-scale war, with the use of unconventional weapons prohibited by
international law.
We believe that it should be obvious even to ardent skeptics that the
Armenian people of Nagorno-Karabakh became a target of the policy of
outright genocide. It is also apparent that the historical memory
of our people will not allow itself to be deceived and doomed to
extermination. Nagorno Karabakh has made its irrevocable choice,
basing on international law, which consists in the creation of an
independent state as the most important factor of ensuring its secure
existence and development. The international mediators should base
on this objective truth, trying to find ways to the fair and legal
solution to the Karabakh issue.
Leonid MARTIROSSIAN Editor-in-Chief of Azat Artsakh newspaper
From: Baghdasarian
http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=899:-outright-genocide&catid=3:all&Itemid=4
Tuesday, 15 January 2013 09:36
23 years have passed since the Armenian pogroms of January 1990 in
Baku. An entire week - between January 13 and 19 - bloody events,
which didn't fit into a normal human mind, were taking place in the
Azerbaijani capital city of Baku, during which hundreds of Armenians
were killed with monstrous and savage cruelty. The January tragedy
in Baku was actually the apotheosis and the final link in the chain
of bloody crimes committed in 1988-1990 against the Armenian citizens
of the Republic. The result of the successive genocidal actions taken
by the Azerbaijani authorities in the late twentieth century was the
final expulsion of the half-million native and state-forming Armenian
population from Azerbaijan.
I must say that the pogroms, extermination, and expulsion of Armenians
in Soviet Azerbaijan were the logical continuation of the traditional
Turkish-Azerbaijani policy of genocide against our people. This is also
testified by the scheduled nature of the massive crimes committed
in 1988-1990 in Sumgait, Kirovabad, Baku and other towns. It is
important to note that the pogroms and expulsion of Armenians met
the interests not only of the nationalist authorities of Azerbaijan,
but also of the then Soviet leadership. Kremlin boss Gorbachev was
an ardent opponent of the Karabakh Movement, which, in fact, debunked
the myth of him as a true democrat, and so he looked indifferently at
the brutal beating of Armenians first in Sumgait and then in Baku. It
was with the criminal connivance of the top leadership of the USSR,
with Gorbachev at the head, that the authorities and Popular Front
of Azerbaijan could realize, with impunity, their inhuman plans on
the extermination and deportation of the Armenian population. As you
know, Gorbachev responded only when no Armenians were actually left
in Azerbaijan and the situation began to spiral out of control. The
power-seeking opposition Popular Front, headed by ardent supporter of
Pan-Turkism Elchibey, posed a serious threat to the very existence of
the Soviet regime in Azerbaijan. That's when, January 20, the "father
of perestroika" commissioned the units of the Soviet army to Baku,
but not for protecting the Armenian citizens, who by then, as noted,
had lacked in the city, but for saving the communist regime from
the roistering crowd of robbers and murderers of Armenians lead by
the Popular Front. That allowed later the Azerbaijani authorities to
falsify, in their usual manner, even the recent history and to present
the entry of the Soviet troops in Baku as an act of suppression of
the democratic movement of the Azerbaijani people fighting for freedom
and independence.
Today, those in Azerbaijan prefer to forget about the bloody events
taken place 23 years ago, about the killed and tortured Armenians.
Moreover, they continue to act pharisaically, arranging, on January
20, national honors for the thugs and murderers of Armenians in the
so-called "Alley of Shehids". That is, to make heroes of the crowds,
which, armed with axes and iron rods, went to kill, with the medieval
cruelty, the innocent people whose guilt was only in the fact that
they were born Armenians. To the deepest regret, the international
community has not condemned so far the actions of the Azerbaijani
authorities, which have not brought repentance to the Armenian people
yet. The Armenian pogroms of January 1990 in Baku became, as noted,
the latest criminal act of the Soviet period, but the series of crimes
by the Azerbaijani authorities did not stop with this. The impunity of
Azerbaijan partly led to the fact that the Baku regime, continuing the
policy of genocide, started a war of destruction against the NKR, which
had declared its independence, and today, Azerbaijan is threatening
to unleash a new war. There is no doubt that the acts of organized
crime, committed by Azerbaijan against the Armenian population,
fall entirely under the term "genocide". In support of this, let's
refer to Article II of the Convention on the Prevention of the Act
of Genocide and Punishment for this: "... genocide means any of the
following acts committed with the intent to exterminate, in whole or
in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such:
a) killing members of the group; b) causing serious bodily
injury (...) to members of the group; c) deliberate creation of
corresponding conditions for any group, with the aim of its full or
partial extermination".
One can easily see that the Armenian population of Azerbaijan, like
entire Nagorno-Karabakh, "passed" through all the above mentioned
points, as if through the circles of hell, as they experienced
pogroms and massacres, ethnic cleansing and deportation and then a
full-scale war, with the use of unconventional weapons prohibited by
international law.
We believe that it should be obvious even to ardent skeptics that the
Armenian people of Nagorno-Karabakh became a target of the policy of
outright genocide. It is also apparent that the historical memory
of our people will not allow itself to be deceived and doomed to
extermination. Nagorno Karabakh has made its irrevocable choice,
basing on international law, which consists in the creation of an
independent state as the most important factor of ensuring its secure
existence and development. The international mediators should base
on this objective truth, trying to find ways to the fair and legal
solution to the Karabakh issue.
Leonid MARTIROSSIAN Editor-in-Chief of Azat Artsakh newspaper
From: Baghdasarian