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THE VOICE OF RUSSIA: IN AZERBAIJAN MURDER ON ETHNIC GROUNDS IS A GOVERNMENTAL POLICY
http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2013/04/02/r-zargaryan/
19:39 02/04/2013 " SOCIETY
In Azerbaijan, the murder on ethnic grounds is a governmental policy,
reads the article published on the Site of the Radio "The Voice
of Russia", written by the candidate of historical sciences, Ruben
Zargaryan, candidate of historical sciences, Advisor of the 1st class
of the NKR MFA.
The article says that recently the 25th anniversary of the genocide
of the Armenians was marked in Azerbaijan. Unfortunately, the world
community still has not given a proper political and legal assessment
of this crime of the Azerbaijan authorities, and thus has not secured
itself against the future recurrence of genocide in other regions
of the world. "The genocide of the Armenians in Sumgait organized
by the authorities of Azerbaijan became the answer to the peaceful
constitutional decision of Nagorny Karabakh's unification with
Armenia," the author writes.
He reminds that on February 27-29, 1988, in the city of Sumgait,
located hundreds of kilometers away from Nagorno-Karabakh, there
occurred mass pogroms and killings of Armenians, crimes against
humanity that stunned the world public by its savagery and brutality.
During the three days of massacres and pogroms, dozens of Armenians
were killed, hundreds were wounded, a huge amount was subjected to
violence, torture and harassment, 18 thousand people became refugees.
"The genocide in Sumgait became the embodiment of hatred for Armenians
that was inherent for the policy of the leadership of the Republic
of Azerbaijan," the article says.
Azerbaijan pogrom-makers armed with metal rods made at factories
and other thrust weapons commenced to the implementation of their
planned criminal actions. Piles of stones were stockpiled in the
centre of the city in order to throw them at motor transport and
forces of law and order. In the days of the pogroms, telephones of
the Armenian residents of Sumgait were turned off, and, as a rule,
they were turned off after people called the militia or the City
Committee of the Communist party with the request to help. The phones
of many Russian residents were also turned off.
"The pogrom-makers knew their tasks very well; they had on hand lists
of Armenians and their addresses. Groups of 50-80 bandits broke into
the houses of Armenians, killing people, not only in their homes,
but they often took them out in the street or courtyard for public
humiliation. After severe tortures, the victims were doused with
gasoline and burned alive. Thus they destroyed entire families,"
the author writes.
The article says that the genocide in Sumgait gave the "green light"
to new unprecedented crimes against the civilian population in
Nagorno-Karabakh, and ultimately led to the beginning of an open
military aggression of Azerbaijan against Nagorno-Karabakh in 1991-94.
"After the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was proclaimed in accordance
with the norms of the international law and the legislation of the
USSR, Azerbaijan undertook a large-scale terrorist aggression. The
Baku administration had committed crimes against peace and humanity,
such as planning, preparation, unleashing and waging an aggressive
war, murder and extermination of civilian population, killing and
ill-treatment of prisoners of war, and intentional destruction of
towns and villages," Zargaryan writes.
It says that, in February 1992, the Azerbaijan leadership committed
the murder of their own people in the territory of Khojalu controlled
by the Azerbaijan army, or more precisely in the outskirts of Aghdam,
whence the continuous bombardment of the NKR territory and attacks
on the cities and villages were carried out.
"The Azerbaijan authorities systematically falsify the events in
Khojalu. The Azerbaijan library still represents computer-edited photos
and displays other historical events in other geographical locations,"
he writes.
It also says, that Photos that allegedly represent the Khojalu
tragedy, in fact, are the photos of the earthquake in Turkey in 1983,
Afghan children-refugees, photos of Albanians killed in Kosovo, the
pogroms in the Balkans in 1999, etc. "Regularly playing the card of
"Khojalu", the official Baku tries to distract the attention of the
international community from the genocide of the Armenians in Sumgait,
Baku, Kirovabad, Khanlar and otherAzerbaijan settlements, as well as
in the border settlements of Nagorno-Karabakh," the article says.
The scientist notes that In the course of the large-scale aggression
of Azerbaijan against the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic in 1991-94,
in the Karabakh village of Maragha occupied by the Azerbaijan army
for several hours on April 10, 1992, 81 people were brutally killed,
67 people were taken hostage, and the fate of many of them is still
not known. People, who had not managed to leave the village, were
dismembered with axes, doused with gasoline and burned alive.
"Unfortunately, to this day, all these crimes committed by Azerbaijan
against humanity, have not been adequately assessed by the world
community. Today, in Azerbaijan, instead of repentance for endless
atrocities and murderous acts, instead of legal procedures against
the criminals, we only see and hear sabre-rattling and threats of
revanchism, terrorist calls for shooting down civilian aircrafts,
falsification of the facts of history and persistent racist
misanthropic insults of the Armenian people," the author says.
According to the article the shameful release and glorification of
the murderer with an axe Safarov has once again demonstrated to the
world community that in Azerbaijan murder owing to national reasons
had been raised to the rank of state policy, and systematic and
deliberate lies and breakdowns of international agreements lie in
the basis of the Baku policy.
On 26-29 February 1988 in terms of actual complicity of local
authorities and inaction of the USSR government mass pogroms
of civilians were organized in Sumgait city of Azerbaijani SSR,
accompanied with unprecedented brutal murders, violence and pillaging
against the Armenian population of the city. Armenian pogroms in
Sumgait were carefully organized. At the meetings, which began on
February 26 in the central square, city leaders openly called for
violence against the Armenians.
On February 27 protests which were attended by hundreds of rioters
turned into violence. Armed with axes, knives, specially sharpened
rebar, rocks and cans of gasoline and with the pre-compiled lists of
apartments where Armenians lived the rioters broke into the houses,
turning everything upside down there and killing the owners. In
the same time, people were often taken out to the streets or to the
courtyard for jeering at them publicly. After painful humiliations
and torture the victims were doused with gasoline and burnt alive.
On February 29 army troops entered Sumgait but without an order to
intervene. Only in the evening, when the mad crowd began to attack
the soldiers the military units took up decisive steps.
The exact number of victims of Sumgait pogroms is still unknown.
According to official data, 32 people were killed; however there
is ample evidence that several hundred Armenians have been killed
in the city in three days. There is also evidence that the riots
were coordinated by KGB in Azerbaijan. Executioners of Sumgait were
subsequently declared as national heroes of Azerbaijan.
Documentary "Ordinary Genocide: Sumgait 1988"
http://karabakhrecords.info/gallery/ordinary-genocide/
Source: Panorama.am
From: A. Papazian
http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2013/04/02/r-zargaryan/
19:39 02/04/2013 " SOCIETY
In Azerbaijan, the murder on ethnic grounds is a governmental policy,
reads the article published on the Site of the Radio "The Voice
of Russia", written by the candidate of historical sciences, Ruben
Zargaryan, candidate of historical sciences, Advisor of the 1st class
of the NKR MFA.
The article says that recently the 25th anniversary of the genocide
of the Armenians was marked in Azerbaijan. Unfortunately, the world
community still has not given a proper political and legal assessment
of this crime of the Azerbaijan authorities, and thus has not secured
itself against the future recurrence of genocide in other regions
of the world. "The genocide of the Armenians in Sumgait organized
by the authorities of Azerbaijan became the answer to the peaceful
constitutional decision of Nagorny Karabakh's unification with
Armenia," the author writes.
He reminds that on February 27-29, 1988, in the city of Sumgait,
located hundreds of kilometers away from Nagorno-Karabakh, there
occurred mass pogroms and killings of Armenians, crimes against
humanity that stunned the world public by its savagery and brutality.
During the three days of massacres and pogroms, dozens of Armenians
were killed, hundreds were wounded, a huge amount was subjected to
violence, torture and harassment, 18 thousand people became refugees.
"The genocide in Sumgait became the embodiment of hatred for Armenians
that was inherent for the policy of the leadership of the Republic
of Azerbaijan," the article says.
Azerbaijan pogrom-makers armed with metal rods made at factories
and other thrust weapons commenced to the implementation of their
planned criminal actions. Piles of stones were stockpiled in the
centre of the city in order to throw them at motor transport and
forces of law and order. In the days of the pogroms, telephones of
the Armenian residents of Sumgait were turned off, and, as a rule,
they were turned off after people called the militia or the City
Committee of the Communist party with the request to help. The phones
of many Russian residents were also turned off.
"The pogrom-makers knew their tasks very well; they had on hand lists
of Armenians and their addresses. Groups of 50-80 bandits broke into
the houses of Armenians, killing people, not only in their homes,
but they often took them out in the street or courtyard for public
humiliation. After severe tortures, the victims were doused with
gasoline and burned alive. Thus they destroyed entire families,"
the author writes.
The article says that the genocide in Sumgait gave the "green light"
to new unprecedented crimes against the civilian population in
Nagorno-Karabakh, and ultimately led to the beginning of an open
military aggression of Azerbaijan against Nagorno-Karabakh in 1991-94.
"After the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was proclaimed in accordance
with the norms of the international law and the legislation of the
USSR, Azerbaijan undertook a large-scale terrorist aggression. The
Baku administration had committed crimes against peace and humanity,
such as planning, preparation, unleashing and waging an aggressive
war, murder and extermination of civilian population, killing and
ill-treatment of prisoners of war, and intentional destruction of
towns and villages," Zargaryan writes.
It says that, in February 1992, the Azerbaijan leadership committed
the murder of their own people in the territory of Khojalu controlled
by the Azerbaijan army, or more precisely in the outskirts of Aghdam,
whence the continuous bombardment of the NKR territory and attacks
on the cities and villages were carried out.
"The Azerbaijan authorities systematically falsify the events in
Khojalu. The Azerbaijan library still represents computer-edited photos
and displays other historical events in other geographical locations,"
he writes.
It also says, that Photos that allegedly represent the Khojalu
tragedy, in fact, are the photos of the earthquake in Turkey in 1983,
Afghan children-refugees, photos of Albanians killed in Kosovo, the
pogroms in the Balkans in 1999, etc. "Regularly playing the card of
"Khojalu", the official Baku tries to distract the attention of the
international community from the genocide of the Armenians in Sumgait,
Baku, Kirovabad, Khanlar and otherAzerbaijan settlements, as well as
in the border settlements of Nagorno-Karabakh," the article says.
The scientist notes that In the course of the large-scale aggression
of Azerbaijan against the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic in 1991-94,
in the Karabakh village of Maragha occupied by the Azerbaijan army
for several hours on April 10, 1992, 81 people were brutally killed,
67 people were taken hostage, and the fate of many of them is still
not known. People, who had not managed to leave the village, were
dismembered with axes, doused with gasoline and burned alive.
"Unfortunately, to this day, all these crimes committed by Azerbaijan
against humanity, have not been adequately assessed by the world
community. Today, in Azerbaijan, instead of repentance for endless
atrocities and murderous acts, instead of legal procedures against
the criminals, we only see and hear sabre-rattling and threats of
revanchism, terrorist calls for shooting down civilian aircrafts,
falsification of the facts of history and persistent racist
misanthropic insults of the Armenian people," the author says.
According to the article the shameful release and glorification of
the murderer with an axe Safarov has once again demonstrated to the
world community that in Azerbaijan murder owing to national reasons
had been raised to the rank of state policy, and systematic and
deliberate lies and breakdowns of international agreements lie in
the basis of the Baku policy.
On 26-29 February 1988 in terms of actual complicity of local
authorities and inaction of the USSR government mass pogroms
of civilians were organized in Sumgait city of Azerbaijani SSR,
accompanied with unprecedented brutal murders, violence and pillaging
against the Armenian population of the city. Armenian pogroms in
Sumgait were carefully organized. At the meetings, which began on
February 26 in the central square, city leaders openly called for
violence against the Armenians.
On February 27 protests which were attended by hundreds of rioters
turned into violence. Armed with axes, knives, specially sharpened
rebar, rocks and cans of gasoline and with the pre-compiled lists of
apartments where Armenians lived the rioters broke into the houses,
turning everything upside down there and killing the owners. In
the same time, people were often taken out to the streets or to the
courtyard for jeering at them publicly. After painful humiliations
and torture the victims were doused with gasoline and burnt alive.
On February 29 army troops entered Sumgait but without an order to
intervene. Only in the evening, when the mad crowd began to attack
the soldiers the military units took up decisive steps.
The exact number of victims of Sumgait pogroms is still unknown.
According to official data, 32 people were killed; however there
is ample evidence that several hundred Armenians have been killed
in the city in three days. There is also evidence that the riots
were coordinated by KGB in Azerbaijan. Executioners of Sumgait were
subsequently declared as national heroes of Azerbaijan.
Documentary "Ordinary Genocide: Sumgait 1988"
http://karabakhrecords.info/gallery/ordinary-genocide/
Source: Panorama.am
From: A. Papazian