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WHO WILL STOP AZERBAIJAN'S AGGRESSION?
http://asbarez.com/115433/who-will-stop-azerbaijan%E2%80%99s-aggression/
Friday, October 25th, 2013
Azerbaijan's President İlham Aliyev inspects a military outpost on
the Armenian-Azeri border
BY HRANT APOVIAN
Aggression (noun): Hostile or violent behavior or attitudes toward
another, readiness to attack or confront.
On October 16, at 20 30 hours another Armenian defense force officer,
senior commander of strategic planning, Captain Kevork Mnatzaganian
was killed as a result of Azeri machine gun fire. Seriously injured
were senior corporal Karoush Hampartsoumian, privates Nareg Hagopian
and Edgar Haroutiounian. Over the last several years, over one hundred
members of the Armenian Defense Forces were either killed or injured
by Azeri border attacks or sniper fire.
The border attacks on Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia are not accidental
incidents. They are part of a long standing political-military
strategy of Azerbaijan, to keep the line of demarcation volatile,
to test Armenian defense positions, and as a ploy to challenge and
derail peace efforts by the O.S.C.E.
It is significant, that the attack occurred on the eve of an O.S.C.E.
Mission scheduled to observe the line of contact on the two sides
of the border in Hatrut. O.S.C.E representative Andrzej Kasprezyk
suspended the monitoring for security considerations.
What is glaringly obvious, is that Azerbaijan's aggressive behavior
is revved up, whenever there is monitoring or prior to negotiating
sessions. One was during then Secretary State Hillary Clinton's visit
to the region.
It is a fact that Azerbaijan is never held accountable and exposed for
its violations. O.S.C.E. Representatives never accuse the aggressor.
They resort to a non-committal call for restraint to the parties
involved. This emboldens Azerbaijan even more. Its challenges to
peace efforts remain unpunished.
Publicly, Armenian Defense Force communiqués - while mourning the
loss of young conscripts- are satisfied with a laconic and vague
pronouncement of a proper response repelling and punishing the
aggressors.
Politically we are still waiting for world condemnation of Azerbaijan's
aggressive behavior. Rather, there is an effort to appease Azerbaijan,
and to woo it back to the negotiating table. There is a stark effort
not to alienate Azerbaijan.
Politically Armenia is reluctant to stop negotiations, while the
killing of Armenian soldiers at the line of contact goes on unabated.
With each loss of human life, one expects a response from the Armenian
government that never materializes.
Negotiations were not suspended when Ramil Safarov, "The Ax Murderer",
was extradited to Azerbaijan and was welcomed as a hero.
They were not broken off while President Aliyev repeatedly threatened
to attack Nagorno Karabakh with his mighty military arsenal. Finally
they were kept alive when Azerbaijan tried to present Armenia as
the aggressor in Muslim nation forums or at the United Nations,
succeeding in passing anti-Armenia resolutions.
It seems that time is not in favor of a just resolution of the Nagorno
Karabakh quest for independence.
Azerbaijan is amassing a formidable arsenal, outspending Armenia by
two billion dollars a year.
Azerbaijan has no intention of coming to terms with Nagorno Karabakh
independence.
The West is pampering Azerbaijan and overlooks its rigged presidential
elections, turns a blind eye to human rights abuses, arrests of
journalists, and opposition figures.
Azerbaijan is violating the terms of a cease fire that it is a
signatory to.
What is unacceptable is the killing of young soldiers. It is a war
crime to post snipers on the Azerbaijan - Nagorno Karabakh border,
as if it were a shooting gallery.
Azerbaijan's transgressions are extensive; they need to be exposed
one by one:
1. There has to be worldwide condemnation of Azerbaijan's aggressive
posture and war crimes.
2. Azerbaijan needs to pull its snipers away from the contact line
and stop the killing.
3. Azerbaijan has to adhere to its pledge made in Moscow of not
resorting to a military solution.
4. Azerbaijan has to adhere to a pact of limiting military expenditures
in the Caucasus.
5. Azerbaijan has to adhere to the Geneva Convention and give access
to the International Red Cross to visit Armenian war prisoners and
repatriate Armenian soldiers that are still being held.
6. Azerbaijan has to stop its anti-Armenian hateful rhetoric.
7. Azerbaijan has to stop presenting the Nagorno Karabakh conflict
as a religious war to the Muslim world.
8. Azerbaijan has to stop its multimillion dollar lobbying effort in
the United States to buy influence.
9. Azerbaijan has to stop blacklisting foreign officials that visit
Nagorno Karabakh, or maybe it should continue to do so.
10. Finally, Azerbaijan must come to terms with the concept of self
determination for a people that has lived there for centuries and
was subjected to massacres and persecution by the Azeri Government.
The West should not remain silent; it has to force Azerbaijan to stop
the killing.
The cease fire is a sham. The killing has to stop. We will not stand
for this.
Azerbaijan is accountable for each Armenian soldier killed.
Armenia: neutralize the snipers or stop all negotiations...
http://asbarez.com/115433/who-will-stop-azerbaijan%E2%80%99s-aggression/
Friday, October 25th, 2013
Azerbaijan's President İlham Aliyev inspects a military outpost on
the Armenian-Azeri border
BY HRANT APOVIAN
Aggression (noun): Hostile or violent behavior or attitudes toward
another, readiness to attack or confront.
On October 16, at 20 30 hours another Armenian defense force officer,
senior commander of strategic planning, Captain Kevork Mnatzaganian
was killed as a result of Azeri machine gun fire. Seriously injured
were senior corporal Karoush Hampartsoumian, privates Nareg Hagopian
and Edgar Haroutiounian. Over the last several years, over one hundred
members of the Armenian Defense Forces were either killed or injured
by Azeri border attacks or sniper fire.
The border attacks on Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia are not accidental
incidents. They are part of a long standing political-military
strategy of Azerbaijan, to keep the line of demarcation volatile,
to test Armenian defense positions, and as a ploy to challenge and
derail peace efforts by the O.S.C.E.
It is significant, that the attack occurred on the eve of an O.S.C.E.
Mission scheduled to observe the line of contact on the two sides
of the border in Hatrut. O.S.C.E representative Andrzej Kasprezyk
suspended the monitoring for security considerations.
What is glaringly obvious, is that Azerbaijan's aggressive behavior
is revved up, whenever there is monitoring or prior to negotiating
sessions. One was during then Secretary State Hillary Clinton's visit
to the region.
It is a fact that Azerbaijan is never held accountable and exposed for
its violations. O.S.C.E. Representatives never accuse the aggressor.
They resort to a non-committal call for restraint to the parties
involved. This emboldens Azerbaijan even more. Its challenges to
peace efforts remain unpunished.
Publicly, Armenian Defense Force communiqués - while mourning the
loss of young conscripts- are satisfied with a laconic and vague
pronouncement of a proper response repelling and punishing the
aggressors.
Politically we are still waiting for world condemnation of Azerbaijan's
aggressive behavior. Rather, there is an effort to appease Azerbaijan,
and to woo it back to the negotiating table. There is a stark effort
not to alienate Azerbaijan.
Politically Armenia is reluctant to stop negotiations, while the
killing of Armenian soldiers at the line of contact goes on unabated.
With each loss of human life, one expects a response from the Armenian
government that never materializes.
Negotiations were not suspended when Ramil Safarov, "The Ax Murderer",
was extradited to Azerbaijan and was welcomed as a hero.
They were not broken off while President Aliyev repeatedly threatened
to attack Nagorno Karabakh with his mighty military arsenal. Finally
they were kept alive when Azerbaijan tried to present Armenia as
the aggressor in Muslim nation forums or at the United Nations,
succeeding in passing anti-Armenia resolutions.
It seems that time is not in favor of a just resolution of the Nagorno
Karabakh quest for independence.
Azerbaijan is amassing a formidable arsenal, outspending Armenia by
two billion dollars a year.
Azerbaijan has no intention of coming to terms with Nagorno Karabakh
independence.
The West is pampering Azerbaijan and overlooks its rigged presidential
elections, turns a blind eye to human rights abuses, arrests of
journalists, and opposition figures.
Azerbaijan is violating the terms of a cease fire that it is a
signatory to.
What is unacceptable is the killing of young soldiers. It is a war
crime to post snipers on the Azerbaijan - Nagorno Karabakh border,
as if it were a shooting gallery.
Azerbaijan's transgressions are extensive; they need to be exposed
one by one:
1. There has to be worldwide condemnation of Azerbaijan's aggressive
posture and war crimes.
2. Azerbaijan needs to pull its snipers away from the contact line
and stop the killing.
3. Azerbaijan has to adhere to its pledge made in Moscow of not
resorting to a military solution.
4. Azerbaijan has to adhere to a pact of limiting military expenditures
in the Caucasus.
5. Azerbaijan has to adhere to the Geneva Convention and give access
to the International Red Cross to visit Armenian war prisoners and
repatriate Armenian soldiers that are still being held.
6. Azerbaijan has to stop its anti-Armenian hateful rhetoric.
7. Azerbaijan has to stop presenting the Nagorno Karabakh conflict
as a religious war to the Muslim world.
8. Azerbaijan has to stop its multimillion dollar lobbying effort in
the United States to buy influence.
9. Azerbaijan has to stop blacklisting foreign officials that visit
Nagorno Karabakh, or maybe it should continue to do so.
10. Finally, Azerbaijan must come to terms with the concept of self
determination for a people that has lived there for centuries and
was subjected to massacres and persecution by the Azeri Government.
The West should not remain silent; it has to force Azerbaijan to stop
the killing.
The cease fire is a sham. The killing has to stop. We will not stand
for this.
Azerbaijan is accountable for each Armenian soldier killed.
Armenia: neutralize the snipers or stop all negotiations...