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ILHAM ALIYEV IS IN PANIC - THE DOMESTIC TENSION IS SUPPLEMENTED BY EXTERNAL THREATS
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Wednesday, 28 November 2012 09:57
The past week events in Azerbaijan - the protest action taken by
opposition parties and the Azerbaijani police's brutal beating of
the rally participants, the ongoing arrests, the violence against
independent media journalists, as well as the dissatisfaction and
threats addressed to Ilham Aliyev by the Azerbaijani intelligentsia
abroad - testify to the crisis of the ruling political regime.
It can be concluded from the suppression actions of the security
structures against the antigovernment public moods that President
Ilham Aliyev is in panic.
First of all, it should be stated that the panic started with the
visit of the delegation of the Republic of Uruguay to Artsakh: the
statements made by Speaker of the House of Representatives Jorge
Orrico in Stepanakert and Yerevan, which demonstrated the state's
commitment to the Declaration of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms
and high morality, had a hammer-blow impact on Ilham Aliyev. On his
instruction, high- and low- level officials issued idle statements
based on heartbreaking yells on "Azerbaijan's territorial integrity".
Oh, won't you say, an illegal visit was paid to "occupied
territories". Being not satisfied with a diplomatic note, they also
started to discuss the issue of breaking the diplomatic relations with
Uruguay. And at a session of the Milli Majlis, one of the lawmakers
made a proposal on funding Nagorno-Karabakh. In short, the paranoia
reached its peak.
Besides the Karabakh news, Aliyev became furious at the protest rally
organized by the youth wing of Musavat Party, Azerbaijani People's
Front, and the Democratic Party against the ruling regime. The police
brutally beat the rally participants marching along the streets with
the slogan "No to the Formal Parliament!" In this country, it is no
longer a secret for conscious people that the Milli Majlis deputies
are "appointed" by the Presidential Administration's previously
prepared list. The Baku police took acts of violence against not
only the party-protesters, but also against journalists: Yeni Musavat
newspaper's reporter was beaten with a truncheon, and other journalists
covering the demonstration, according to Turan information agency,
were threatened by the police hampering their work.
Outstanding representative of the ruling party Mubariz Gurbanly,
expressing his opinion on the rally, said that the Musavat and
Democratic Party of Azerbaijan deviate the youth from the true way.
The opposition stressed that the recent rally of the youth, compared to
the October 20 rally, was suppressed with special cruelty. By the way,
it is also noteworthy that the Azerbaijani Popular Front activists were
subjected to 7-day detention, and the Democratic and Musavat Parties'
representatives - 5-day detention, which testifies to the parties'
degree of impact on the society.
And about two weeks ago, the naive Europeans tried to give lessons
to official Baku: during their visit to Azerbaijan, representatives
of the Council of Europe, OSCE and EU called upon the country's
authorities to release journalists and civic activists from prisons.
At the same time, an admonition was issued to conduct impartial and
transparent investigation of the cases on the attacks on journalists.
On Aliyev's instruction, a workshop was held, but it was not what the
international institutions demanded. Aliyev had no time to spend with
them - the presidential elections are approaching and it is not the
time to play in democracy.
It should be also noted that the protests' dose was stronger this time:
the domestic disorders in Azerbaijan were accompanied by protests
of the Azerbaijani intellectuals, living abroad, against Aliyev's
regime. Member of the Coordination Council of the Union of Azerbaijani
Organization of Russia, screenwriter Rustam Ibrahimbekov, who is also
one of the founders of this union, stated that if the Azerbaijani
President did not want to reckon with him, then he was not going to
reckon with him either. According to Turan Azerbaijani news agency,
Rustam Ibrahimbekov reminded of the bargain for a deputy mandate
between former deputy of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Gyulyar Ahmedova
and former Rector of the International University of Azerbaijan
Elshad Abdullayev and said that he was well aware of this story:
the deputy requiring 1 million Euros from the Rector represented
Yeni Azerbaijan ruling party. "It's terrible. If it's true, then
the Parliament is illegitimate and cannot be taken seriously". If
the Azeri intellectuals, living in Russia, voice on the illegitimate
Parliament, then everything is clear. By the way, Rustam Ibrahimbekov
sent a warning to Ilham Aliyev: "The organization created by the
Azerbaijanis in Russia can once get involved in politics". Such a
statement is a serious blow to Aliyev's head: the Azeri intellectuals
living abroad can interfere with the domestic political processes. They
are not the protest rally of the opposition youth, against whom the
President can enable the police, subjecting them to violence.
In this case, Aliyev had only to demonstrate his power. He decided
to mark, November 16, the 20th anniversary of Yeni Azerbaijan Party,
to give a response to his opponents during a banquet, and to glorify
once again his "national leader" father. According to the leader's
heir, in November 1992, Heydar Aliyev consolidated the country's
authoritative forces and convened the party's constituent meeting in
Nachijevan in order "to restore the political stability in the country
and to lead the people out of the severe psychological crisis". For
grounding the Aliyevs clan's aspirations to stay in power, he would
have said that only Heydar Aliyev, who came to power in 1993 by
people's alleged requirement, managed to get the country out of the
desperate situation. Who else if not Ilham could say that through his
father's efforts Azerbaijan has become one of the world countries with
the most developed economy and political stability. This twaddle's
afterword is already clear: Ilham Aliyev, summarizing his ideas,
stressed that there was no force in the political arena of Azerbaijan,
which could compete with them. And the end was more than sensational:
"The Yeni Azerbaijan is the largest political force in the South
Caucasus, the role of which is to grow more in the future". This is,
surely, a speech for his opponents: it is difficult "to show teeth"
from Baku to Moscow, so Aliyev gave them to understand that he wasn't
going to hand the power over to anybody else in the nearest future,
therefore, he was ready to counteract to all his opponents, including
the members of the Union of Azerbaijani Organizations of Russia.
While Ilham Aliyev's assessments can somehow be digested by the
living-abroad intellectuals, who are dissatisfied with the ruling
regime, for the rebelling part of the society, the President's
statement that he is strongly supported by the people in the country
is not worth a dime. The people's protest and intolerance during
the recent years unambiguously prove that the country has come to
a domestic political crisis, and its logical solution can be the
overthrow of the sultan social system, which will allow, first of all,
to eradicate the Nazi moods in the Azerbaijani society disseminated
by the Aliyevs clan.
Ruzan ISHKHANIAN
http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=855:-ilham-aliyev-is-in-panic-the-domestic-tension-is-supplemented-by-external-threats&catid=5:politics&Itemid=17
Wednesday, 28 November 2012 09:57
The past week events in Azerbaijan - the protest action taken by
opposition parties and the Azerbaijani police's brutal beating of
the rally participants, the ongoing arrests, the violence against
independent media journalists, as well as the dissatisfaction and
threats addressed to Ilham Aliyev by the Azerbaijani intelligentsia
abroad - testify to the crisis of the ruling political regime.
It can be concluded from the suppression actions of the security
structures against the antigovernment public moods that President
Ilham Aliyev is in panic.
First of all, it should be stated that the panic started with the
visit of the delegation of the Republic of Uruguay to Artsakh: the
statements made by Speaker of the House of Representatives Jorge
Orrico in Stepanakert and Yerevan, which demonstrated the state's
commitment to the Declaration of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms
and high morality, had a hammer-blow impact on Ilham Aliyev. On his
instruction, high- and low- level officials issued idle statements
based on heartbreaking yells on "Azerbaijan's territorial integrity".
Oh, won't you say, an illegal visit was paid to "occupied
territories". Being not satisfied with a diplomatic note, they also
started to discuss the issue of breaking the diplomatic relations with
Uruguay. And at a session of the Milli Majlis, one of the lawmakers
made a proposal on funding Nagorno-Karabakh. In short, the paranoia
reached its peak.
Besides the Karabakh news, Aliyev became furious at the protest rally
organized by the youth wing of Musavat Party, Azerbaijani People's
Front, and the Democratic Party against the ruling regime. The police
brutally beat the rally participants marching along the streets with
the slogan "No to the Formal Parliament!" In this country, it is no
longer a secret for conscious people that the Milli Majlis deputies
are "appointed" by the Presidential Administration's previously
prepared list. The Baku police took acts of violence against not
only the party-protesters, but also against journalists: Yeni Musavat
newspaper's reporter was beaten with a truncheon, and other journalists
covering the demonstration, according to Turan information agency,
were threatened by the police hampering their work.
Outstanding representative of the ruling party Mubariz Gurbanly,
expressing his opinion on the rally, said that the Musavat and
Democratic Party of Azerbaijan deviate the youth from the true way.
The opposition stressed that the recent rally of the youth, compared to
the October 20 rally, was suppressed with special cruelty. By the way,
it is also noteworthy that the Azerbaijani Popular Front activists were
subjected to 7-day detention, and the Democratic and Musavat Parties'
representatives - 5-day detention, which testifies to the parties'
degree of impact on the society.
And about two weeks ago, the naive Europeans tried to give lessons
to official Baku: during their visit to Azerbaijan, representatives
of the Council of Europe, OSCE and EU called upon the country's
authorities to release journalists and civic activists from prisons.
At the same time, an admonition was issued to conduct impartial and
transparent investigation of the cases on the attacks on journalists.
On Aliyev's instruction, a workshop was held, but it was not what the
international institutions demanded. Aliyev had no time to spend with
them - the presidential elections are approaching and it is not the
time to play in democracy.
It should be also noted that the protests' dose was stronger this time:
the domestic disorders in Azerbaijan were accompanied by protests
of the Azerbaijani intellectuals, living abroad, against Aliyev's
regime. Member of the Coordination Council of the Union of Azerbaijani
Organization of Russia, screenwriter Rustam Ibrahimbekov, who is also
one of the founders of this union, stated that if the Azerbaijani
President did not want to reckon with him, then he was not going to
reckon with him either. According to Turan Azerbaijani news agency,
Rustam Ibrahimbekov reminded of the bargain for a deputy mandate
between former deputy of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Gyulyar Ahmedova
and former Rector of the International University of Azerbaijan
Elshad Abdullayev and said that he was well aware of this story:
the deputy requiring 1 million Euros from the Rector represented
Yeni Azerbaijan ruling party. "It's terrible. If it's true, then
the Parliament is illegitimate and cannot be taken seriously". If
the Azeri intellectuals, living in Russia, voice on the illegitimate
Parliament, then everything is clear. By the way, Rustam Ibrahimbekov
sent a warning to Ilham Aliyev: "The organization created by the
Azerbaijanis in Russia can once get involved in politics". Such a
statement is a serious blow to Aliyev's head: the Azeri intellectuals
living abroad can interfere with the domestic political processes. They
are not the protest rally of the opposition youth, against whom the
President can enable the police, subjecting them to violence.
In this case, Aliyev had only to demonstrate his power. He decided
to mark, November 16, the 20th anniversary of Yeni Azerbaijan Party,
to give a response to his opponents during a banquet, and to glorify
once again his "national leader" father. According to the leader's
heir, in November 1992, Heydar Aliyev consolidated the country's
authoritative forces and convened the party's constituent meeting in
Nachijevan in order "to restore the political stability in the country
and to lead the people out of the severe psychological crisis". For
grounding the Aliyevs clan's aspirations to stay in power, he would
have said that only Heydar Aliyev, who came to power in 1993 by
people's alleged requirement, managed to get the country out of the
desperate situation. Who else if not Ilham could say that through his
father's efforts Azerbaijan has become one of the world countries with
the most developed economy and political stability. This twaddle's
afterword is already clear: Ilham Aliyev, summarizing his ideas,
stressed that there was no force in the political arena of Azerbaijan,
which could compete with them. And the end was more than sensational:
"The Yeni Azerbaijan is the largest political force in the South
Caucasus, the role of which is to grow more in the future". This is,
surely, a speech for his opponents: it is difficult "to show teeth"
from Baku to Moscow, so Aliyev gave them to understand that he wasn't
going to hand the power over to anybody else in the nearest future,
therefore, he was ready to counteract to all his opponents, including
the members of the Union of Azerbaijani Organizations of Russia.
While Ilham Aliyev's assessments can somehow be digested by the
living-abroad intellectuals, who are dissatisfied with the ruling
regime, for the rebelling part of the society, the President's
statement that he is strongly supported by the people in the country
is not worth a dime. The people's protest and intolerance during
the recent years unambiguously prove that the country has come to
a domestic political crisis, and its logical solution can be the
overthrow of the sultan social system, which will allow, first of all,
to eradicate the Nazi moods in the Azerbaijani society disseminated
by the Aliyevs clan.
Ruzan ISHKHANIAN