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    Genocide - never again: The anti-democracy Aliyev - a Genocide apologist

    TERT.AM
    18:49 - 01.09.12


    By Hayk Kotanjian, Doctor of Political Science
    Chairman, Political Science Association of Armenia

    The address of the Political Science Association of Armenia (PSAA) to
    the heads of the UN member states, leaders of the EU, Council of
    Europe, CIS, OSCE, NATO, the League of Arab States, Organization of
    Islamic Cooperation, the Non-Aligned Movement, as well as Amnesty
    International, Freedom House and Human Rights Watch

    The ethnically motivated and extremely brutal assassination of the
    Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan committed by the Azerbaijani officer
    Ramil Safarov at the NATO PfP linguistic training courses in Budapest
    on 19 February, 2004, which was qualified as a criminal offence of
    genocidal nature with a maximum possible punishment of life sentence
    by the Budapest City Court verdict. This act of crime fully complies
    with the logic of the Genocide policy, implemented by Azerbaijan
    towards the Armenian nation, as well as its propaganda of national
    hatred and ethnic discrimination. The genocidal acts committed in the
    territories of future AzSSR - in Baku, Shushi and other places in
    1905-1920, as well as in Sumgait, Kirovabad, Baku and Maragha in
    1988-1994, are vivid manifestations of the above-mentioned policy.
    Guided by the same logic the Azerbaijani instigators committed an act
    of massacre of Meskheti Turks in February, 1992, aimed at fabricating
    an alleged myth of the so-called `Khojaly counter-genocide' committed
    by the Armenians against the Turks through falsification of the murder
    circumstances and corps mutilation in the vicinity of Aghdam
    controlled by Azerbaijani troops - far beyond the reach of the
    Karabakh side.


    President Aliyev's pardon of the criminal who was sentenced to life
    imprisonment for the murder of genocidal nature, despite the
    obligations taken by Azerbaijan - according to the statement of the
    Ministry of Public Administration and Justice of Hungary on August 31,
    2012 - of the possibility to parole Safarov no sooner than 25 years
    since imprisonment, is another vivid evidence of the antidemocratic
    nature of the Aliyevs' hereditary regime both in the sphere of
    individual fundamental human rights - the right to life - by means of
    `canonization of the heroism' of the criminal by an illegal pardon,
    and in the sphere of collective rights - the peoples' right to
    self-determination - by means of disregarding the legitimate
    referendum in Nagorno Karabakh in December, 1991. Moreover, the order
    of the Supreme Commander Aliyev honored Safarov for his brutal crime
    and conferred him Major's rank out of turn.
    This illegal act by the Azerbaijani President is an explicit violation
    of the UN 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
    Crime of Genocide, thus creating a precedent for impunity and
    encouraging future genocidal acts.


    The pardon of the genocidal murderer is an irrefutable manifestation
    of the antidemocratism and bellicose militarism of the Aliyevs' regime
    in addition to the fact of violations of such human rights as the
    involvement of the opposition in the Parliament, freedom of speech and
    gatherings.


    Azerbaijan's bold illegal disregard of individual and collective human
    rights makes it urgent to find out new legal means to ensure the
    non-recurrence of genocidal acts against the Armenian nation which is
    commemorating 100th centenary of the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide
    in the Ottoman Empire and in Azerbaijan.


    Given the vital importance of legally guarantee for the non-recurrence
    of the Armenian Genocide, PSAA finds it essential to suggest to the
    Heads of States and the Parliaments of the RA and NKR the expediency
    to sign an `Intergovernmental Treaty on the Protection of Human Rights
    and Rendering Humanitarian, Financial and Economic Assistance to the
    NKR' between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of
    Nagorno-Karabakh. The amendments made to the RA Law on the
    International Treaties of the Republic of Armenia, adopted in
    December, 2010 by the National Assembly of RA, might serve a legal
    basis for Armenia. Taking into account the outrageous illegal actions
    taken by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan - the
    demonstrative pardon and encouraging of the genocidal murderer - it is
    worthwhile to initiate corresponding consultations with the OSCE Minsk
    Group Co-Chairmen.
    In the light of the above-mentioned, it becomes urgent to unite the
    efforts of RA, NKR and Diaspora, as well as the democratic forces of
    the international community to prevent the possibility of a new
    Genocide against the Armenian nation or any of its part.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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