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Qabil Ashirov read more The new season of Armenian Farce in Karabakh, scripted by
Armenian intelligentsia and public figures and starred by Nikol
Pashinyan and Arayik Harutyunyan, is underway. Watching it some
immediately realize that Armenians planned to shoot drama, but due
to inexperience, it turned out a comedy. Therefore nobody is
interested in it, except Armenophiles around the world.
As is known, Armenians and their mouthpieces have tried to
persuade the world that Azerbaijan does not comply with its
commitments under the 9 November statement for several months.
Ostensibly, Azerbaijan aims ethnic cleansing and therefore keeps
Karabakh under blockade. They go extra miles to substantiate their
accusations, but they have not been able to prove it so far, like
their preivouse baseless claims. Just leafing through history is
enough to unearth the lies made up shamelessly by Armenians.
In retrospect, like in the former unrecognized Nagorno Karabakh
Autonomy of Azerbaijan, many ethnic groups lived in Armenia during
the USSR. However, when the regime collapsed and Armenians took
over the total power, the first and third biggest ethnic groups -
Azerbaijanis and ethnic minorities of some Muslim Kurds were
totally expelled from Armenia where they had lived for thousands of
years. Armenians did not have mercy on other ethnicities as well.
For example, Russians were the second ethnic group after
Azerbaijanis, and four of five Russians have left Armenia over 30
years.
They have not limited themselves to ethnic cleanings only in
Armenia. They wrested Karabakh and adjoining seven rayons
(districts) out of Azerbaijan and expelled the multiethnic
population, including Azerbaijanis, Russians, Kurds, Udins,
Meskhetians and so on.
Following the invasion, this self-styled "civil" horde started
deliberately destroying the historical heritage of the local
population, more precisely, demolishing mosques, caravanserais,
Russian orthodox church, and Armenenization of Albanian churches
such as Amaras and Khudavang monasteries, and building new Armenian
churches instead. Their shamelessness extended to such a degree
that they coined a new slogan "New Wars, New Territories" and
invited Armenians in the USA to come to fight against Azerbaijan
for invading new territories. It was the limit, Azerbaijan did not
intend to tolerate this knavishness of Armenians anymore. The
44-day War broke out and ended in a humiliating defeat for them.
With the above said in mind, we can say that Armenia is the last
country in the world to accuse other countries of ethnic
cleansing.
Unlike Armenia, Azerbaijan is the multiethnic, multicultural and
multireligious country. There are tens of nations with different
origins living in peace and prosperity in Azerbaijan. Besides,
30,000 Armenians live in Azerbaijan despite the war with Armenia,
and massacres made by Armenians in the First Karabakh War. One of
these Armenians living in Azerbaijan is Zoya Arutyunyan, the sister
of former Armenian Defense Minister. She lives in Kurdamir with her
children and nobody disturbed her even during the both Karabakh
wars. Also, it must be underlined that without questioning ethnic
background, Azerbaijan embraced Muslim Kurds who had lived in
Armenia for thousands of years and were dispelled by Armenians in
the 1990s.
As for Azerbaijan's not complying with its commitments under the
10 November agreement, it is another ridiculous accusation voiced
by Armenia. Before coming to Azerbaijan's commitments, they had
better recall their own ignobility and negligence to stipulation in
the signed document. First and foremost, neither Armenia nor its
mouthpieces should forget about the 4 statements of the UN over the
withdrawal of Armenian Armed Forces from Azerbaijan's territories.
Armenian responded the UN statement with the motto "New War, New
Territories," let alone withdrawal.
For the Human Watch report on the Khojaly massacre, first, they
tried to put the blame then-Azerbaijani government, but later the
former Armenian president Serj Sargsyan confirmed that it was
committed deliberately to terrorize local people. It is worth
noting that in Khojaly, Armenian terrorists slaughtered 613
civilians including children, elderlies, and women. Another
organizer of the Karabakh crisis Murad Igoryan went even further to
call locals a political instrument and emphasized that Armenians
needed to get rid of them.
In regard to the 10 November, Azerbaijan fulfilled all
commitments that it overtook - it stopped military operations,
allowed local Armenians to return to their homes, and kept open the
only route through Lachin to Azerbaijan's Karabakh. Unlike
Azerbaijan, Armenia has never complied with a single item of the
statement that was signed by Nikol Pashinyan. For example, the 7th
item of the statement reads: "Internally displaced persons and
refugees shall return to the territory of Karabakh and adjacent
districts under the control of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees." However, considering refugees as a political tool,
Armenia has never attempted to allow IDPs from regions that are
under the control of separatists to return to their homes. Under
the 9th item of the statement, Armenia overtakes a commitment to
provide Azerbaijan with entrance to its exclave Nakhchivan through
Armenia. However, Armenia goes the extra mile to evade the item and
has not opened the communication line yet.
In the fourth item, Armenia undertook a commitment to withdraw
its armed groups from Karabakh. Even they declared that Armenia
withdrew its Armed Forces from Karabakh in September 2022. However,
a few days ago 4 Armenian soldiers lost their lives in a shootout
that stemmed from their provocations and Armenia pleaded with the
Russian Peacekeepers for two days to help Armenians to take the two
corpses of dead servicemen to Armenia. Here arises the question, if
Armenia really withdrew its Armed Forces from Karabakh as they
claimed, why are they taking the corpses of dead servicemen to
Armenia? The answer is clear, Armenia did not withdraw from
Karabakh.
So in the end, I would like to recall Armenians that lie has
short legs. Hey, you cannot cheat everyone forever, therefore it is
better to stop the farce. Believe me, you are weak, you do not have
any resource to get strong and nobody will come to fight with you,
except you will be left alone in the battlefield facing Azerbaijan,
your nightmare. If you want to live in peace and prosperity you
have to find a common language with your neighbors, otherwise, the
viability of Armenia is under question.
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Qabil Ashirov is AzerNews' staff journalist, follow him on
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