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THE ARMENIAN DELEGATION AT PACE SHOULD PRESENT CORRESPONDING FACTS
AGAINST THE LIE
Friday, 23 January 2015 19:52
As we know, since October 27, 2014, a trial over Azerbaijani
subversives Dilham Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev had been held in
Stepanakert, which ended in late December with sentencing. Let's
remember that in July, on the instructions of the security services of
Azerbaijan, they penetrated into the territory of the NKR Karvachar
region to commit sabotage-reconnaissance and espionage actions, but
were captured by the Karabakh special forces.
The third member of the subversive group - H. Hasanov -
resisted during the detention and was killed. The members of the group
committed a series of heinous crimes, killing two citizens of the NKR,
including a seventeen-year-old boy, and wounding a few men. Based on
solid facts and evidence, as well as the confessions of the accused,
the fault of the group members in committing thecrimes was fully
proved. It is important to note that the trial was extremely open and
transparent and was conducted in compliance with judicial procedures,
ensuring the legal protection for the defendants, each of which was
provided with a lawyer. According to the decision of the NKR Court of
First Instance, Dilham Askerov was sentenced to life imprisonment, and
Shahbaz Guliyev - to 22 years in prison.
It would seem that the situation is very clear, the
criminals got the deserved punishment, and an end could be put in this
particular story. But apparently, it is too early to put an end, and
here's why. Actually, from the moment the saboteurs were taken captive
Azerbaijan, in its usual hysterical manner, initiated a propaganda and
disinformation campaign, aiming mainly to rehabilitate the criminals,
to present them to the world as innocent hostages, and ultimately to
achieve their extradition to the homeland. And this is despite the
obvious truth that it was the defendants that killed really innocent
victims, which was proven at the trial and confirmed by the defendants
themselves. In such a situation, common sense and human morality
suggest that Azerbaijan should, as they say, to be silent in a rag, as
all the arguments, I mean the evidence, is absolutely against it. But,
as we know, the criminal authorities of this country have long lost
all the human features, having turned into moral monsters, for which
the killing of innocent people and outright lies have become a norm of
state behavior.
This is confirmed also by the fact that the noted
propaganda campaign involved the state structures of Azerbaijan,
including the President himself, which try to internationalize the
issue and bring it to the international arena. Thus, recently, head of
the Azerbaijani delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe Samad Seyidov has stated that "the sentence against
the Azerbaijani hostages will be also discussed" at the winter session
of this European organization. According to him, the PACE
member-states will be required (!!!) to protest against the trial. "As
always, we will put forward our claims based on specific facts. But,
the main thing is that the international organization regard this
issue not from the position of double standards, but by justice".
We believe there is no need to say what is "justice" in
the Azerbaijani understanding. This is its complete lack. Now, as for
the "specific facts" mentioned by Seyidov. Does he intend to submit to
the MEPs the testimony of the saboteurs published by the mass media
about how they penetrated into the NKR territory with weapons and spy
equipment, how they collected information about the military sphere,
how they killed the 17-year-old boy? Surely not, because, agree, this
kind of actions do not fit into the image of peaceful hostages, which
official Baku persistently tries to shape from thesubversive-killers.
And, of course, at the PACE session Seyidov, trying to prove the
unprovable, willnot utter a word about it and will pour a hefty dose
of blatant lie on the PACE members.
But, the Armenian delegation should not remain silent at
the PACE session. Having quite a lot of convincing facts on hand, it
should do everything to turn the process of discussion of this issue
into a kind of trial against the Azerbaijani authorities, who have
committed the graviest crimes against civilians and are committing yet
another grave crime - deception of the authoritative European
organization and the international community as a whole. We think that
the PACEsession will give the Armenian delegation quite a good
opportunity to present the real picture of what happened and,
consequently, the true face of the Azerbaijani authorities, as well as
todemonstrate to the MEPs the obvious superiority of the NKR over
Azerbaijan in terms of the development of democracy, adherence to the
norms and principles of a civilized society. And first of all, the
moral superiority. This was proved also by the abovementioned
transparent and unbiassedtrial over the Azerbaijani subversives
conducted in full compliance with the procedural canons of
administration of justice inherent to a democratic state, which cannot
be said about Azerbaijan, where Armenian hostages are brutally killed
without any trial. We'd like the sentence over the Azerbaijani
subversives to be followed by another sentence (now international)
finally passed against the criminal leadership of Azerbaijan, which
has long cynically violated the universal norms of a civilized
society. Then it will be possible to put the final end.
Leonid MARTIROSSIAN
Editor-in-Chief of Azat Artsakh newspaper
http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1679:-the-armenian-delegation-at-pace-should-present-corresponding-facts-against-the-lie&catid=3:all&Itemid=4
AGAINST THE LIE
Friday, 23 January 2015 19:52
As we know, since October 27, 2014, a trial over Azerbaijani
subversives Dilham Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev had been held in
Stepanakert, which ended in late December with sentencing. Let's
remember that in July, on the instructions of the security services of
Azerbaijan, they penetrated into the territory of the NKR Karvachar
region to commit sabotage-reconnaissance and espionage actions, but
were captured by the Karabakh special forces.
The third member of the subversive group - H. Hasanov -
resisted during the detention and was killed. The members of the group
committed a series of heinous crimes, killing two citizens of the NKR,
including a seventeen-year-old boy, and wounding a few men. Based on
solid facts and evidence, as well as the confessions of the accused,
the fault of the group members in committing thecrimes was fully
proved. It is important to note that the trial was extremely open and
transparent and was conducted in compliance with judicial procedures,
ensuring the legal protection for the defendants, each of which was
provided with a lawyer. According to the decision of the NKR Court of
First Instance, Dilham Askerov was sentenced to life imprisonment, and
Shahbaz Guliyev - to 22 years in prison.
It would seem that the situation is very clear, the
criminals got the deserved punishment, and an end could be put in this
particular story. But apparently, it is too early to put an end, and
here's why. Actually, from the moment the saboteurs were taken captive
Azerbaijan, in its usual hysterical manner, initiated a propaganda and
disinformation campaign, aiming mainly to rehabilitate the criminals,
to present them to the world as innocent hostages, and ultimately to
achieve their extradition to the homeland. And this is despite the
obvious truth that it was the defendants that killed really innocent
victims, which was proven at the trial and confirmed by the defendants
themselves. In such a situation, common sense and human morality
suggest that Azerbaijan should, as they say, to be silent in a rag, as
all the arguments, I mean the evidence, is absolutely against it. But,
as we know, the criminal authorities of this country have long lost
all the human features, having turned into moral monsters, for which
the killing of innocent people and outright lies have become a norm of
state behavior.
This is confirmed also by the fact that the noted
propaganda campaign involved the state structures of Azerbaijan,
including the President himself, which try to internationalize the
issue and bring it to the international arena. Thus, recently, head of
the Azerbaijani delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe Samad Seyidov has stated that "the sentence against
the Azerbaijani hostages will be also discussed" at the winter session
of this European organization. According to him, the PACE
member-states will be required (!!!) to protest against the trial. "As
always, we will put forward our claims based on specific facts. But,
the main thing is that the international organization regard this
issue not from the position of double standards, but by justice".
We believe there is no need to say what is "justice" in
the Azerbaijani understanding. This is its complete lack. Now, as for
the "specific facts" mentioned by Seyidov. Does he intend to submit to
the MEPs the testimony of the saboteurs published by the mass media
about how they penetrated into the NKR territory with weapons and spy
equipment, how they collected information about the military sphere,
how they killed the 17-year-old boy? Surely not, because, agree, this
kind of actions do not fit into the image of peaceful hostages, which
official Baku persistently tries to shape from thesubversive-killers.
And, of course, at the PACE session Seyidov, trying to prove the
unprovable, willnot utter a word about it and will pour a hefty dose
of blatant lie on the PACE members.
But, the Armenian delegation should not remain silent at
the PACE session. Having quite a lot of convincing facts on hand, it
should do everything to turn the process of discussion of this issue
into a kind of trial against the Azerbaijani authorities, who have
committed the graviest crimes against civilians and are committing yet
another grave crime - deception of the authoritative European
organization and the international community as a whole. We think that
the PACEsession will give the Armenian delegation quite a good
opportunity to present the real picture of what happened and,
consequently, the true face of the Azerbaijani authorities, as well as
todemonstrate to the MEPs the obvious superiority of the NKR over
Azerbaijan in terms of the development of democracy, adherence to the
norms and principles of a civilized society. And first of all, the
moral superiority. This was proved also by the abovementioned
transparent and unbiassedtrial over the Azerbaijani subversives
conducted in full compliance with the procedural canons of
administration of justice inherent to a democratic state, which cannot
be said about Azerbaijan, where Armenian hostages are brutally killed
without any trial. We'd like the sentence over the Azerbaijani
subversives to be followed by another sentence (now international)
finally passed against the criminal leadership of Azerbaijan, which
has long cynically violated the universal norms of a civilized
society. Then it will be possible to put the final end.
Leonid MARTIROSSIAN
Editor-in-Chief of Azat Artsakh newspaper
http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1679:-the-armenian-delegation-at-pace-should-present-corresponding-facts-against-the-lie&catid=3:all&Itemid=4