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Armenian Card - Ace of trumps against Baku opposition
19:09 24/08/2013 » ANALYSIS
Presidential elections in Azerbaijan are almost here, but the backup
candidate for opposition, in case Oscar-winning screenwriter Rustam
Ibrahimbekov fails to be nominated as a united candidate, is still not
defined . . .
The possibility of such an outcome of events is more than real, as he
still has a Russian passport in his pocket, the issue concerning the
property in the USA is not resolved, and, therefore, doesn't have the
right to be nominated based on Azerbaijani law. Anyway, the initiative
group supporting Ibrahimbekov has submitted documents to Central
Electoral Commission.
Needless to say, it is pretty tough for oppositionists there, who
might as well be accused of Armenophilia. The method is an old and
tested one, guaranteeing a stamp it would be hard, if not impossible,
to get rid of.
Here are a few examples. Elchin Mirzabeyli, the deputy of Azerbaijani
Popular Front Party, has recently reminded Imbrahimbekov about the
interview in `Pravda' newspaper given in 2008, where the screenwriter
regrets about the relocations of Armenians from Baku and states openly
that the city elite has disrupted, and that he misses the Armenians
who left. `There is a similar motive, nostalgia, in the latest work by
Akram Aylisli. From that viewpoint, I think it is possible they are
both controlled by the same center,' said the politician.
The Youth organization of the ruling party issued a statement a few
months ago: `It is very shameful that these people still call
themselves representatives of Azerbaijani intelligentsia. Their
activities can be considered as treason to Fatherland. We demand
Rustam Ibrahimbekov and Akram Aylisli to be announced as `personae non
gratae.' Yeni Azerbaijan pro-governmental newspaper described
Ibrahimbekov as `discourteous, amoral Armenophile.' The executive
secretary of `Yeni Azerbaijan' ruling party Ali Ahmedov claimed:
`Every citizen of Azerbaijan must despise the thinking and ideology of
Rustam Ibrahimbekov.'
Interestingly, this method is used not only against political
opponents, but also international organizations criticizing the
authorities of Azerbaijan. The head of the Geneva office of the bureau
of the human rights organization `Human Rights House' Florian Irminger
said that everyone already knows who the next Azerbaijani president
will be. `In other countries people find out the name of the winner
the next day after elections.
The fact that it is previously known who the president will be proves
that the elections are falsified. In the meantime, the statement of
the former head of the European Union, according to which the current
president has some good chances to win in upcoming elections,
authorizes those elections in a way,' notes Irminger. In return, the
official Baku, more specifically the head of the department of
political analysis and information support of the administration of
the president Elnur Aslanov accused the `Human Rights House'
organization in executing an order: `It's not a coincidence that a big
number of Armenian Diaspora organizations are partners to `Human
Rights House.' Besides that, the financial issues of the given
structure of the secretariat are directed by a person of Armenian
descent, Saro Saroyan.' To be brief, because of an absence of other
more or less intelligible arguments, the Armenian card continues to be
the most effective one at the upcoming Azerbaijani elections for the
fight against oppositionists . . .
Asatur Sarkisyan
Source: Panorama.am
From: Baghdasarian
19:09 24/08/2013 » ANALYSIS
Presidential elections in Azerbaijan are almost here, but the backup
candidate for opposition, in case Oscar-winning screenwriter Rustam
Ibrahimbekov fails to be nominated as a united candidate, is still not
defined . . .
The possibility of such an outcome of events is more than real, as he
still has a Russian passport in his pocket, the issue concerning the
property in the USA is not resolved, and, therefore, doesn't have the
right to be nominated based on Azerbaijani law. Anyway, the initiative
group supporting Ibrahimbekov has submitted documents to Central
Electoral Commission.
Needless to say, it is pretty tough for oppositionists there, who
might as well be accused of Armenophilia. The method is an old and
tested one, guaranteeing a stamp it would be hard, if not impossible,
to get rid of.
Here are a few examples. Elchin Mirzabeyli, the deputy of Azerbaijani
Popular Front Party, has recently reminded Imbrahimbekov about the
interview in `Pravda' newspaper given in 2008, where the screenwriter
regrets about the relocations of Armenians from Baku and states openly
that the city elite has disrupted, and that he misses the Armenians
who left. `There is a similar motive, nostalgia, in the latest work by
Akram Aylisli. From that viewpoint, I think it is possible they are
both controlled by the same center,' said the politician.
The Youth organization of the ruling party issued a statement a few
months ago: `It is very shameful that these people still call
themselves representatives of Azerbaijani intelligentsia. Their
activities can be considered as treason to Fatherland. We demand
Rustam Ibrahimbekov and Akram Aylisli to be announced as `personae non
gratae.' Yeni Azerbaijan pro-governmental newspaper described
Ibrahimbekov as `discourteous, amoral Armenophile.' The executive
secretary of `Yeni Azerbaijan' ruling party Ali Ahmedov claimed:
`Every citizen of Azerbaijan must despise the thinking and ideology of
Rustam Ibrahimbekov.'
Interestingly, this method is used not only against political
opponents, but also international organizations criticizing the
authorities of Azerbaijan. The head of the Geneva office of the bureau
of the human rights organization `Human Rights House' Florian Irminger
said that everyone already knows who the next Azerbaijani president
will be. `In other countries people find out the name of the winner
the next day after elections.
The fact that it is previously known who the president will be proves
that the elections are falsified. In the meantime, the statement of
the former head of the European Union, according to which the current
president has some good chances to win in upcoming elections,
authorizes those elections in a way,' notes Irminger. In return, the
official Baku, more specifically the head of the department of
political analysis and information support of the administration of
the president Elnur Aslanov accused the `Human Rights House'
organization in executing an order: `It's not a coincidence that a big
number of Armenian Diaspora organizations are partners to `Human
Rights House.' Besides that, the financial issues of the given
structure of the secretariat are directed by a person of Armenian
descent, Saro Saroyan.' To be brief, because of an absence of other
more or less intelligible arguments, the Armenian card continues to be
the most effective one at the upcoming Azerbaijani elections for the
fight against oppositionists . . .
Asatur Sarkisyan
Source: Panorama.am
From: Baghdasarian