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    AZERBAIJANI DIASPORA SENTS HUNDREDS OF PROTEST LETTERS TO THE CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS

    APA
    http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=165314
    Feb 8 2012
    Azerbaijan

    Baku-APA. The Azerbaijani Diaspora in the US strongly opposed
    California Assemblymen Fuentes, Gatto and Achadjian's resolution to
    designate February 27, 2012, as "California Day of Remembrance for
    the Massacres of Armenians in Sumgait, Kirovabad, and Baku"

    The Diaspora members have sent the hundreds of letters to the
    California lawmakers, expressing their indignation over the draft
    and called it "a real outrage, especially considering the date it
    chooses to designate for remembrance".

    "It's appalling that the California legislature will serve as a venue
    to celebrate the killing of 30,000 Azerbaijani people by the Armenian
    army, the ethnic cleansing of up to 800,000 Azeris that are unable to
    return to their homes and live as refugees in their own country for
    20 years now. This is a consequence of irredentist claims and campaign
    of aggression by Armenia against Azerbaijan", wrote the authors.

    The Azeri Diaspora members also mention that the facts about the
    Sumgait events of 1988 were distorted and obscured by the propaganda
    and greater tragedies that followed, such as dozens of Azerbaijanis
    massacred in Armenia throughout 1988, the terrible massacre of over 400
    Azerbaijanis in Baku during the Black January of 1990, a genocidal act
    of mutilating well over 600 Azerbaijanis during the Khojaly Massacre
    in February 1992 - the largest massacre in the region to date. All
    these tragedies caused considerable and irreparable damage to the
    Azerbaijani-Armenian relations, and should be carefully examined,
    with their masterminds brought to justice.

    "The Sumgait tragedy, which killed people on all sides, should be
    considered only in the larger historic context of the occupation
    of NK and other Azerbaijani regions by the armed forces of Armenia,
    displacement of over 800,000 Azerbaijanis, killing of a total of over
    20,000 Azeris, and of course the gerrymandering of the Soviet Communist
    regime with the lives of millions of people on their periphery",
    say the letters.

    The authors also mention that Azerbaijan is a country with
    well-recognized positive record of tolerance, where Jews and Christians
    of all denominations, Shia and Sunni Muslims, Bahais and Agnostics,
    have lived side by side for centuries. "Meanwhile, Armenia is a
    mono-ethnic state that regularly jails Jehovah Witnesses".

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