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AGHDAM EVENTS 'EYEWITNESS' AZERBAIJANI PHOTOGRAPHER CONFUSES EVIDENCE AND CAN'T SHOW ANY PHOTO OF 'ATROCITIES'
13:19 05/03/2015 >> SOCIETY
On the 23rd anniversary of the events in Aghdam, site Panarmenian.net
turned to the memories and 'evidence' of the "National Geographic"
photographer of Azerbaijani origin - Reza Deghati who is notorious for
a series of contradicting statements made regarding the above-mentioned
events. The site states that the photograph demonstrates bias claiming
that in January 1990 he arrived in Baku where 'Armenians were killing
Azerbaijanis.' This is how he described a week-long massacre of
Armenians in Baku.
Besides, the photograph claims that "then Azerbaijani ambassador of
UNESCO to Paris Elnura Huseynova" met him in Baku. What happens is
that Azerbaijan was a member of the USSR (note that he got his visa
in Moscow) in 1990 and did not have a representative in UNESCO.
Azerbaijan set on an autonomous cooperation with that organization
on 3 June, 1992, that is 2 years after the mentioned arrival in Baku.
Moreover, the name of the Azerbaijani ambassador to UNESCO was not
Elnura, but Eleonora.
Further, he tells about his arrival in Azerbaijan on 28-29 February,
1992 on the occasion of the events in Aghdam. Citation, "So... With
that team I arrived in Aghdam, where people, who had managed to save
themselves from the atrocities of the Armenians in Khojalu, gathered.
At that time the Red Cross Community negotiated with the Armenians to
return the dead bodies. I took some photos when we exchanged captives
on Aghdam - Khojalu border. At that time one of the Armenian soldiers
showed me a teaspoon taking it out of his pocket. I asked why he
needed that. The soldier declared that they used it to gouge out the
captives' eyes."
It is very important to note that he is not only a journalist, but
he is a photographer, that is, a person who carries with him all the
necessary equipment to capture the historical events on the spot. And
here again inconsistencies come out in his story. First, the Armenian
side itself transferred the corpses of the 'people from Khojalu' to
Azerbaijan without preconditions 2 days later. And this is not the
Red Cross Community's merit; the reason was commonplace and simple:
it was impossible to keep them in a country undergoing famine because
of blockade.
Second, the sources and archives titled "Azerbaijan" from Deghati's
exhibitions, including his website and other propaganda resources, have
been studied. Everywhere a few photos taken in Aghdam are featured
as 'khojalu' photo-evidence that depict living, healthy people,
without any trace of atrocities and tortures. Several sobbing women,
an old woman at the mosque in Aghdam, mourning over a man's body in
the mosque, and that is all. It is quite strange that a professional
photographer, witnessing 'atrocities and horrors,' did not take any
photo of the victims of 'khojalu' and of 'the executioner with a
silver spoon.'
Further, Deghati organized an exhibition "Parole de liberte,"
demonstrating the 'horrors of khojalu' at Paris metro station
Luxemburg in 2010. However, there was only one photo related to
the events in Aghdam on the stand. The rest depicted Afghanistan,
Africa, Sarajevo. Yet the inscription emblazoned in the centre reads,
"Azerbaijan. Aghdam. April, 1992" while he claimed that he had been
in Aghdam and Khojalu in February, rather than in April.
And at last, in 2015 the title "Photos from the Khojalu genocide"
appeared in the Azerbaijani press. 15 of the published 21 photos
demonstrated scenes depicting living crying people what is natural
for wartime, including men in transport - apparently refugees from
Khojalu. 3 photos of graves, it is unknown who are those people, but
judging by the headstone it is a man at whose age one is supposed to
fight - a far cry from being a civilian and a 'genocide victim.' And
3 more photos depicting corpses. Those corpses belong to adult and
mature men who can never be ranked as civilians. Remarkably, one of
them is in a striped vest which is given to the military people.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
13:19 05/03/2015 >> SOCIETY
On the 23rd anniversary of the events in Aghdam, site Panarmenian.net
turned to the memories and 'evidence' of the "National Geographic"
photographer of Azerbaijani origin - Reza Deghati who is notorious for
a series of contradicting statements made regarding the above-mentioned
events. The site states that the photograph demonstrates bias claiming
that in January 1990 he arrived in Baku where 'Armenians were killing
Azerbaijanis.' This is how he described a week-long massacre of
Armenians in Baku.
Besides, the photograph claims that "then Azerbaijani ambassador of
UNESCO to Paris Elnura Huseynova" met him in Baku. What happens is
that Azerbaijan was a member of the USSR (note that he got his visa
in Moscow) in 1990 and did not have a representative in UNESCO.
Azerbaijan set on an autonomous cooperation with that organization
on 3 June, 1992, that is 2 years after the mentioned arrival in Baku.
Moreover, the name of the Azerbaijani ambassador to UNESCO was not
Elnura, but Eleonora.
Further, he tells about his arrival in Azerbaijan on 28-29 February,
1992 on the occasion of the events in Aghdam. Citation, "So... With
that team I arrived in Aghdam, where people, who had managed to save
themselves from the atrocities of the Armenians in Khojalu, gathered.
At that time the Red Cross Community negotiated with the Armenians to
return the dead bodies. I took some photos when we exchanged captives
on Aghdam - Khojalu border. At that time one of the Armenian soldiers
showed me a teaspoon taking it out of his pocket. I asked why he
needed that. The soldier declared that they used it to gouge out the
captives' eyes."
It is very important to note that he is not only a journalist, but
he is a photographer, that is, a person who carries with him all the
necessary equipment to capture the historical events on the spot. And
here again inconsistencies come out in his story. First, the Armenian
side itself transferred the corpses of the 'people from Khojalu' to
Azerbaijan without preconditions 2 days later. And this is not the
Red Cross Community's merit; the reason was commonplace and simple:
it was impossible to keep them in a country undergoing famine because
of blockade.
Second, the sources and archives titled "Azerbaijan" from Deghati's
exhibitions, including his website and other propaganda resources, have
been studied. Everywhere a few photos taken in Aghdam are featured
as 'khojalu' photo-evidence that depict living, healthy people,
without any trace of atrocities and tortures. Several sobbing women,
an old woman at the mosque in Aghdam, mourning over a man's body in
the mosque, and that is all. It is quite strange that a professional
photographer, witnessing 'atrocities and horrors,' did not take any
photo of the victims of 'khojalu' and of 'the executioner with a
silver spoon.'
Further, Deghati organized an exhibition "Parole de liberte,"
demonstrating the 'horrors of khojalu' at Paris metro station
Luxemburg in 2010. However, there was only one photo related to
the events in Aghdam on the stand. The rest depicted Afghanistan,
Africa, Sarajevo. Yet the inscription emblazoned in the centre reads,
"Azerbaijan. Aghdam. April, 1992" while he claimed that he had been
in Aghdam and Khojalu in February, rather than in April.
And at last, in 2015 the title "Photos from the Khojalu genocide"
appeared in the Azerbaijani press. 15 of the published 21 photos
demonstrated scenes depicting living crying people what is natural
for wartime, including men in transport - apparently refugees from
Khojalu. 3 photos of graves, it is unknown who are those people, but
judging by the headstone it is a man at whose age one is supposed to
fight - a far cry from being a civilian and a 'genocide victim.' And
3 more photos depicting corpses. Those corpses belong to adult and
mature men who can never be ranked as civilians. Remarkably, one of
them is in a striped vest which is given to the military people.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress