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    UCI Armenian Students Association in Irvine prevented dissemination of
    Azerbaijani disinformation

    http://www.panorama.am/en/popular/2014/03/01/arm-azer-california/
    15:43 01/03/2014 >> SOCIETY



    The Azeri Consul attempted to present a distorted view of history
    during a presentation at University of California, Irvine. As
    "Asbarez.com" reports the event was hosted by the pro-Azeri Council on
    International Affairs as part of Azerbaijan's ongoing revisionist
    propaganda in the West.

    According to the information, at least two thirds of the audience in
    the small hall was Armenian, primarily students and community members,
    who made sure the truth was known.

    UCI Armenian Students Association passed out pamphlets to attendees
    describing the real Azerbaijan, including their policies of jailing
    journalists, rewarding murderers such as Safarov, massacring Armenians
    in Sumgait, Baku, Kirovabad, and the ongoing human rights violations
    of the ruling regime.

    "After the Consul's skewed presentation where, among other things, he
    stated that Armenians massacred Azeris and that the historic Armenian
    Church in Gandzasar was Albanian, the moderator opened the floor for
    questions. A preplanned pro-Azeri group asked prewritten pro-Azeri
    questions with canned responses by the Consulate. Finally, Armenian
    students had a chance and clarified the record, exposed the truth and
    asked about Azerbaijan's organized massacres of Armenians in Sumgait,
    Baku and Kirovabad. The Azeri Consul avoided the questions and
    abruptly ended the Q and A session short," the article reads.
    It also reads that the Consul and organizers remained hiding in
    another room while campus Police blocked off the corridor.

    On February 26, 1992, during the war in Karabakh, around 200 to 300
    people (according to Human Rights Watch, and 600 according to the
    version propagated by Azerbaijan) were killed in unknown circumstances
    near the city of Aghdam. They have been deliberately withheld by the
    Azerbaijani authorities in the midst of the military actions.
    Population of the village of Khojalu, which was one of the firing
    points shooting at the blockaded Stepanakert (among five others) was
    kept in the village for months by force and was not evacuated by the
    authorities of Azerbaijan deliberately, in order to use them as human
    shields later.

    Residents of Khojalu coming out through the humanitarian corridor,
    that the self-defense forces of NKR had left open, freely passed more
    than 10 km and reached the Aghdam city controlled by the Azerbaijani
    troops. Later, not far from the positions of Azerbaijani troops dead
    bodies of the villagers were found. The exact death toll remains
    unknown as the official Baku publishes data contradicting each other.
    Parliamentary Commission investigating the tragic death of the
    civilians at Aghdam city was dissolved by the order of Heydar Aliyev,
    the investigative materials are kept secret.

    Documentary: Between hunger and fire: Power at the expenses of lives.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxc7jdIasQg

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