Western Azerbaijan Community Hammers Human Rights Watch's Bias Against Compatriots

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 28. Human Rights Watch, positioning itself as a champion of human rights, has published an annual report on the state of human rights in the world, and the part of the report on Azerbaijan, along with numerous slanderous allegations, raises the issue of creating conditions for the return of Armenians left from our country, but in the section dedicated to Armenia, there is not a phrase about the return of exiled Azerbaijanis, the statement of the Western Azerbaijan Community said, Trend reports.

“We consider it discrimination by Human Rights Watch against the Azerbaijani people on ethnic and religious grounds. Racial discrimination is not acceptable in any case. When this discrimination is carried out by organizations describing themselves as champions of human rights, it is a double blow to human rights. We would like to especially recall that shortly before the publication of this report, a notorious speech by former President Levon Ter-Petrosian was circulated confirming that the ethnic cleansing carried out by Armenia against Western Azerbaijanis was a state policy, and we sent a special appeal to Human Rights Watch in this regard.

We demand that Human Rights Watch and the forces behind it stop using human rights as a political tool, racial discrimination against Azerbaijanis, and support for Armenia's policy of ethnic cleansing,'' the statement reads.

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