Western Azerbaijan Community Denounces Deutschlandfunk Radio's Racial Discrimination
Date
1/14/2025 5:08:42 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 14. The public
broadcasting entity Deutschlandfunk, representing the Federal
Republic of Germany, disseminated a program replete with defamatory
assertions regarding the Azerbaijani populace and state on January
12, 2025, the statement of the Western Azerbaijan Community said,
Trend reports.
“The material's plot was based on an interview with scandalously
famous Azerbaijaniphobe Tessa Hoffman. The program claimed that
allegedly illegal actions were committed against Armenians in
Azerbaijan in 1990, and the history of the conflict left in the
past was presented following the concept of radical Armenian
nationalism.
However, the program did not mention anything about the ethnic
cleansing committed by Armenia against more than one million
Azerbaijanis during the conflict, the occupation, and destruction
of the territories of Azerbaijan, as well as the annihilation of
its cultural heritage. Similarly, the facts of ethnic cleansing of
300,000 Azerbaijanis from Armenia in 1987-1991 and the murder of
216 Azerbaijanis in Armenia are silenced,” the statement reads.
The statement also stresses that instead of broadcasting racist,
hateful programming and creating tensions in the region,
Deutschlandfunk should condemn Armenia's racist policies, including
a recently revealed statement made by Armenia's first president
Levon Ter-Petrosyan during his presidency in which he affirmed that
ethnic cleansing against Azerbaijanis was a state policy.
“We, as the Western Azerbaijan Community, condemn the racial
discrimination by the public radio station Deutschlandfunk and call
on the management of the radio station to take appropriate measures
against this unacceptable step,” the community's statement
says.
To note, at the conclusion of the 1980s, a significant
demographic shift occurred, resulting in the forced displacement of
300,000 Azerbaijani individuals from their residential territories
within Armenia. Their coercive expulsion was coupled with
extrajudicial executions, involuntary vanishings, the obliteration
of assets, and looting.
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