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Qabil Ashirov
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The Garabagh clan under the auspices of the Armenian Apostolic
Church go the extra mile to ax the peace negotiation between
Azerbaijan and Armenia which is much more tangible than ever. For
dozens of days, Armenian clergies have been calling people to pour
into the streets to overthrow the Government which the clan had
tried previously but could not do. However, it seems the clergies
will live the same fate in their efforts to topple the pro-Western
PM who still holds a strong influence among his supporters.
However, this action of the Armenian Church once again proves that
the hands of clerics smeared the blood of innocent Azerbaijanis in
the Garabagh wars. In other words, the Garabagh conflict is more
religious than inter-ethnicity.
Reading the history one can easily conclude that it was the
Armenian Church who ignited the Garabagh conflict and its history
goes back not thirty years but hundreds of years. History says that
the head of the Armenian Church wrote a letter to the Albanian
Church, the first state in modern Azerbaijan, in the Middle Ages
and required to subjugate. However, the head of the Albanian Church
rejected the demand and noted that Albania had made Christianity
the religion of state before Armenia and it was the Armenian Church
that then subjugated to the Albanian Church. Despite the failure
before the Albanian Church, the Armenian Church did not step back
from its ambition.
As is known, later, the majority of Albans converted to Islam.
Nevertheless, little Albanian community existed especially in
Garabagh until the Russian invasion. When the Russian Empire
invaded Azerbaijan, The Armenian Church repeated its requirement
once again and wrote a letter to the Russian Czar to eliminate the
Albanian Church and give its property to the Armenian Church.
Unfortunately, the Czar accepted the request, and the Albanian
Church was eliminated. The Chzar's decree was not limited to the
elimination of the church - all Albans living in Garabagh either
had to go to the Armenian Church or leave Garabagh. In other words,
Albans living in Garabagh was forcefully Armenified. To top it all
off, the Russian Empire settled some Armenians migrated from Iran
in Garabagh. Thus, the number of Armenians inflated and the
demography changed in favor of Armenians in Garabagh. After 150
years, with an allegation that the majority of the population is
Armenians in Garabagh, Armenia tried to annex the region. Thus, the
conflict emerged.
Taking advantage of the chaos in the political center in Baku,
Armenians were able to invade not only Garabagh but also seven
adjacent districts. As a result of the First Garabagh War in the
1990s, over 700,00 Azerbaijani citizens with different origins,
such as Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Meskhetians, Russians, Udis, and so
on, turned into IDPs and dispersed throughout Azerbaijan. Over
20,000 Azerbaijani civilians were brutally killed. Over 50,000
Azerbaijanis were wounded. In the meantime, the economy of
Azerbaijan shrank.
Through the invasion, the Garabagh Clan usurped the power in
Yerevan. In this country, a real church power began to form - so
that as the people became poorer, the clergy began to get richer.
The fact that the feudal regime and the church took over all the
powers in the country indicated that serious upheavals would arise.
Every sixth person in Armenia left the country. So to say, the
population in the country was going to dramatically deplete. Two
borders out of four were closed down and Armenia became isolated.
Radicals in Armenia tried to invade new territories to get out of
the vicious circle and attacked Azerbaijan once again in 2020.
Thus, the Second Garabagh War started but resulted in a humiliating
defeat for Armenia.
Finally, Armenians understood that nobody would come to save
them. So peace negotiations became indispensable through which the
Pashinyan Government had to give back the four Armenia-occupied
Azerbaijani villages, and the delimitation and demarcation process
between the two countries was started. However, it seems that the
peace process does not suit the clerics because they will lose
their leverage over reigniting the conflict created by the Church.
It is the conflict that, beyond doubt, has been the main source of
income for the Church for dozens of years. And finally today, the
real reasons why the Armenian Church is an obstacle to peace are
revealed.
Going astray from the main notion of religion, the clerics do
not care about the ordinary lives of either Armenians or other
nations. Their main concern is about the wealth through which they
think can have full control over the authority. Hopefully,
Armenians will not allow them to impede the peace process for both
their safe future and the security of the region.
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