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    BLOCKADE OF ARMENIA BORDERS - CONSEQUENCE OF TURKEY IMPUNITY

    Pan Armenian News
    21.04.2005 03:50

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ "How can the blockade of Turkey of the transport
    communications leading to Armenia be explained if not by impunity of
    the perpetration of the Armenian Genocide? However the circumstance
    that the same state, which still ignores the urge of the civilized
    world to immediately end the blockade of Armenia and establish
    diplomatic relations with it, still claims mediator role in the Nagorno
    Karabakh settlement is the most surprising, not feeling embarrassed
    in supporting the position of solely the Azeri party," Nagorno
    Karabakh Republic President Arkady Ghukasian stated at the Ultimate
    Crime, Ultimate Challenge: Human Rights and Genocide international
    conference. The NKR President statement notes: "Such a peculiar
    understanding of the mediator mission by Turkey directly issues
    from its attitude to the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. And
    is not it the same circumstance that makes the Azeri leaders give
    Turkey a special role in the solution of the Karabakh problem? And
    what if not a permanent genocide policy should the Azeri leadership
    attitude to the Armenian population of the republic be considered
    from the day of its founding? An obvious confirmation of it is the
    history of the former Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous District. Within
    the years of existence of the NKAD the Baku authorities worked for a
    prompt change of the demographic situation in the district in favor
    of the Azeri population aiming at further abolition of the Armenian
    autonomy. To fulfill this task the Azeri leaders used such mechanisms
    as outrageous social, economic and cultural discrimination of the
    Armenian population, falsification of the history of the Armenian
    people, ban for any economic and cultural ties of Nagorno Karabakh
    with Armenia, destroying of Armenian cultural monuments, churches,
    forming an image of Armenians in the Azeri society as if they were
    historical and irreconcilable enemies of the Azeri and all other
    Turkic peoples. Azeri leaders pursued just the same policy towards
    the once Armenian majority of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic,
    which resulted in virtually no single Armenian remaining there in
    the middle of the past century. I think that we should properly
    present the grievous fate of the Armenians in Nakhichevan to the
    international community as an obvious example of what would happen
    in Nagorno Karabakh if it further remained part of Azerbaijan. All
    the aforementioned mechanisms of discrimination policy by Baku
    authorities formed favorable conditions for the future perpetration of
    the next bloody genocide of the Armenians - this time in Azerbaijan,
    whose political forces do not conceal they consider the "Armenian"
    policy of the Ottoman and contemporary Turkey an exemplary one. Baku
    authorities proved to be worthy students of their teachers. The
    slaughter based on the ethnic criteria and the forced eviction of the
    Armenian population from the places of their permanent residence in
    Sumgait, Baku, Kirovabad, the regions of Shamkhor, Khanlar, Shemakhin
    and others in Azerbaijan, the unprecedented siege of the NKR, daily
    artillery bombardment of Stepanakert to annihilate its peaceful
    population, the butchering of women, the old and children in Maraga
    Armenian village, just as the continuing blockade of Nagorno Karabakh
    and other glaring crimes of the Baku authorities against Armenians
    fully fit the international definition of the genocide."
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