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Mexican intellectuals are outraged by Azerbaijani ambassador's
comparison of Jose Sarukhanyan with Himmler
20:20 21/05/2013 » IN THE WORLD
Mexican Professor at the Center for Economic Research, Jean Meyer
responded to the article of Ilgar Mukhtarov, the Azerbaijani
Ambassador to Mexico, published in the newspaper "Milenio". The
Ambassador's article contains offensive remarks about the
distinguished representative of the Armenian Diaspora in Mexico,
former rector Jose Sarukhan (Sarukhanyan).
As the author notes, Azerbaijani ambassador tried to express his
discontent about dismantling of the monument dedicated to Heydar
Aliyev which was installed in the Park of Mexico City, by venting it
on the representative of the Armenian community, and comparing him
with Himmler who was guilty in the genocide of Jews and Gypsies.
"At the same time, the Azerbaijani ambassador denies the historical
fact of the mass killings of Armenians in the Azerbaijani city of Baku
in 1990. The tragedy was of such a big scale that Moscow was urged to
send paratroopers under the command of Alexander Lebed. Mr. Ambassador
could not admit the fact that the events that occured in Baku (and
Sumgait) were much worse than the events taken place in Khojalu, which
occurred two years later, as far as his government, rather to say the
government of the son of ex-president, had already punished the famous
Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli for writing an unforgivable things in
his book - for telling about the mass killings of Armenians in Baku,
to which Heydar Aliyev incited, trying to harm the reformer -
Gorbachev," Jean Meyer writes.
Hereat, the intervention of the Soviet army, which saved the lives of
many Armenians, is presented as the "bloody suppression of the
democratic movement of the army of the totalitarian empire of evil,"
and the killed rebels were buried in the Shahid Alley. Topic of
Armenian killings in Azerbaijan is a taboo, and an elderly writer
Aylisli was accused of breaking this taboo.
According to the Stalinist or Nazi tradition, that is to say by the
totalitarian way, a baiting started against Aylisli; his books were
being burnt across the country, the author was deprived of all the
awards and pensions, as it was the decision of President Ilham Aliyev,
the head of the distinguished Ambassador of Azerbaijan. One of the
political parties even offered 10,000 euros to a patriot who cuts off
the "traitor's" ear. The thing is that the author compares the
killings of Armenians in Sumgait in 1988 and in Baku in 1990 with the
massacre of Armenians that were carried out in his native village
Aylis.
"Though the Azerbaijani ambassador to Mexico says that "Armenian
Bolshevik Stepan Shaumyan carried out genocide against the
Azerbaijanis in 1918," in reality destruction of the Armenians, that
had begun in 1915 in the Ottoman Empire, continued. According to
Amiram Grigorov, the Aliyev dynasty cultivates a "culture of absolute
and concentrated hatred towards its neighbors - the Armenians - which
serves as a fuel for the Azerbaijani authorities just like an oil. The
hatred that spread as fire after the collapse of the Soviet Union
almost irrevocably changed the ethnic picture in the eastern part of
the South Caucasus. This hatred should not manifest itself in Mexico,"
the author said.
`Tempo en linea' has also touched this topic. Representative of
Mexican intellectuals Fernando Merano Migayon writes here that the
Azerbaijani ambassador, who was unable to preserve the monument of
Dictator Heydar Aliyev in the center of Mexico City, writes lampoons
about Jose Sarukhan who is a respected man in Mexico, and who had
expressed his competent opinion on this subject.
The author notes that Jose Sarukhan, the great Rector, who is one of
the brightest minds among the Mexican intellectuals and is a Nobel
laureate does not need anyone's protection when he expresses his
position on an issue that has touched his family directly.
The Armenian Genocide and the Nagorno Karabakh conflict were the
reason why this honorable man became one of the best representatives
of the Mexican intelligentsia.
"The most ridiculous, disturbing and regrettable thing here is that
the arguments of the Azerbaijani Ambassador are a clear result of
foolishness, narrow-mindedness and prejudice," Migayon writes, and
notes that the Azerbaijani ambassador stated he was not surprised by
the Armenian roots of Jose Sarukhan. Meanwhile, the author notes that
the ambassador would be surprised to learn about Sarukhan's debating
skills, if he bothered himself to check them. Or he would be even more
surprised to learn that the ethnic origins of people does not affect
neither on their arguments, nor on the facts.
According to Migayona ambassador's comparison of Sarukhan with Himmler
was so offensive that it is unbelievable how the diplomat could do
that, unless he understands what he is talking about, or unless he
reacts as Aliyev, the head of his country, who rejects and omits any
person who does not share his point of view.
"This is a selective memory. However, there are no such bad texts
which teach nothing. Thanks to Mr. Mukhtarov we learnt that in
Armenian the surname of Don Jose sounds "Sarukhanyan." Thank you for
your contribution, your majesty," ironically says the author.
http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2013/05/21/mexico-mukhtarov-sarukhanyan/
comparison of Jose Sarukhanyan with Himmler
20:20 21/05/2013 » IN THE WORLD
Mexican Professor at the Center for Economic Research, Jean Meyer
responded to the article of Ilgar Mukhtarov, the Azerbaijani
Ambassador to Mexico, published in the newspaper "Milenio". The
Ambassador's article contains offensive remarks about the
distinguished representative of the Armenian Diaspora in Mexico,
former rector Jose Sarukhan (Sarukhanyan).
As the author notes, Azerbaijani ambassador tried to express his
discontent about dismantling of the monument dedicated to Heydar
Aliyev which was installed in the Park of Mexico City, by venting it
on the representative of the Armenian community, and comparing him
with Himmler who was guilty in the genocide of Jews and Gypsies.
"At the same time, the Azerbaijani ambassador denies the historical
fact of the mass killings of Armenians in the Azerbaijani city of Baku
in 1990. The tragedy was of such a big scale that Moscow was urged to
send paratroopers under the command of Alexander Lebed. Mr. Ambassador
could not admit the fact that the events that occured in Baku (and
Sumgait) were much worse than the events taken place in Khojalu, which
occurred two years later, as far as his government, rather to say the
government of the son of ex-president, had already punished the famous
Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli for writing an unforgivable things in
his book - for telling about the mass killings of Armenians in Baku,
to which Heydar Aliyev incited, trying to harm the reformer -
Gorbachev," Jean Meyer writes.
Hereat, the intervention of the Soviet army, which saved the lives of
many Armenians, is presented as the "bloody suppression of the
democratic movement of the army of the totalitarian empire of evil,"
and the killed rebels were buried in the Shahid Alley. Topic of
Armenian killings in Azerbaijan is a taboo, and an elderly writer
Aylisli was accused of breaking this taboo.
According to the Stalinist or Nazi tradition, that is to say by the
totalitarian way, a baiting started against Aylisli; his books were
being burnt across the country, the author was deprived of all the
awards and pensions, as it was the decision of President Ilham Aliyev,
the head of the distinguished Ambassador of Azerbaijan. One of the
political parties even offered 10,000 euros to a patriot who cuts off
the "traitor's" ear. The thing is that the author compares the
killings of Armenians in Sumgait in 1988 and in Baku in 1990 with the
massacre of Armenians that were carried out in his native village
Aylis.
"Though the Azerbaijani ambassador to Mexico says that "Armenian
Bolshevik Stepan Shaumyan carried out genocide against the
Azerbaijanis in 1918," in reality destruction of the Armenians, that
had begun in 1915 in the Ottoman Empire, continued. According to
Amiram Grigorov, the Aliyev dynasty cultivates a "culture of absolute
and concentrated hatred towards its neighbors - the Armenians - which
serves as a fuel for the Azerbaijani authorities just like an oil. The
hatred that spread as fire after the collapse of the Soviet Union
almost irrevocably changed the ethnic picture in the eastern part of
the South Caucasus. This hatred should not manifest itself in Mexico,"
the author said.
`Tempo en linea' has also touched this topic. Representative of
Mexican intellectuals Fernando Merano Migayon writes here that the
Azerbaijani ambassador, who was unable to preserve the monument of
Dictator Heydar Aliyev in the center of Mexico City, writes lampoons
about Jose Sarukhan who is a respected man in Mexico, and who had
expressed his competent opinion on this subject.
The author notes that Jose Sarukhan, the great Rector, who is one of
the brightest minds among the Mexican intellectuals and is a Nobel
laureate does not need anyone's protection when he expresses his
position on an issue that has touched his family directly.
The Armenian Genocide and the Nagorno Karabakh conflict were the
reason why this honorable man became one of the best representatives
of the Mexican intelligentsia.
"The most ridiculous, disturbing and regrettable thing here is that
the arguments of the Azerbaijani Ambassador are a clear result of
foolishness, narrow-mindedness and prejudice," Migayon writes, and
notes that the Azerbaijani ambassador stated he was not surprised by
the Armenian roots of Jose Sarukhan. Meanwhile, the author notes that
the ambassador would be surprised to learn about Sarukhan's debating
skills, if he bothered himself to check them. Or he would be even more
surprised to learn that the ethnic origins of people does not affect
neither on their arguments, nor on the facts.
According to Migayona ambassador's comparison of Sarukhan with Himmler
was so offensive that it is unbelievable how the diplomat could do
that, unless he understands what he is talking about, or unless he
reacts as Aliyev, the head of his country, who rejects and omits any
person who does not share his point of view.
"This is a selective memory. However, there are no such bad texts
which teach nothing. Thanks to Mr. Mukhtarov we learnt that in
Armenian the surname of Don Jose sounds "Sarukhanyan." Thank you for
your contribution, your majesty," ironically says the author.
http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2013/05/21/mexico-mukhtarov-sarukhanyan/