ACTUAL QUOTE
Council of Parliamentary Union of Organization
of Islamic Conference (PU OIC):
“The PU OIC parliaments recognize the massacre by Armenian armed forces against Azerbaijani peaceful population in Khojaly town of Azerbaijan Republic as a mass crime against humanity. In addition, inter-parliamentary platform urged the member-states to assess this crime on the national level”.
From the Abu Dhabi Declaration, adopted in the 13th session of the Council of PU OIC, January 19, 2011
Peter SEMNEBY,
EU Special Representative for South Caucasus:
“We concern about the situation around Nagorno Karabakh and each incident shows that it needs to make more efforts to solve the conflicts… Our position remains unchanged. EU recognizes the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan”.
From the statement to press, Baku, January 24, 2011
Sven ALKALAJ,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina:
“Bosnia and Herzegovina’s position in the Nagorno-Karabakh issue is very clear – we support sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan in this matter. From the 2011 Bosnia and Herzegovina as a member of UN Security Council and in this period will continue to support Azerbaijan on that basis”.
From the interview to IA APA, Baku, January 12, 2011
Aleksey MUKHIN,
general head of the Center of Political Information of Russia:
“The OSCE can not really intervene in the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, but is compelled to demonstrate their interest to it, that “not to drop out of a holder” of the negotiating process… And regarding Armenia and its role in the conflict, Mukhin said the country will continue to play rather passive role, since it doesn’t poses any real abilities for the resolution of the conflict and obliged to hide behind Russia, carry on dialogue with Armenian Diaspora in Russia and Turkey”.
From the interview to IA Day.az, Moscow, January 13, 2011
Armenians about Armenians
Robert ARAKELOV
KARABAKH DIARY
(beginning in the previous issues)
THE UNLUCKY COMPANY
The Executive committee of Stepanakert suggested renaming the street “Friendship of nations” into Lizetta Tatevosyan Boulevard, and each citizen considered as honorable to name their new-born daughters as Lizetta or with the similar endings such as Janetta, Jorjetta or Muzetta. As the readers of the newspaper required write about the history of Tatevosyan’s family comprehensively, the head editor sent his smartest journalist on an official journey to the village on Saturday, ordering him to prepare an article of a complete page about Lizetta Tatevosyan and her family, staying there at least for a week. The correspondent went, and the head editor gathered his workers and invited also the workers of the Executive committee at that night in his cabinet for the decisive solution of the problem about how to change the name of the street “Friendship of nations”. The problem was about that views of the citizens were separated: some of them suggested to name it as Lizetta Tatevosyan boulevard, others suggested as the prospect of “Mother Lizetta and seven heroes”, others suggested as “Riu de Lizett” in French according to the views of Dimboyan, the chairman of “Gathering of poets of Artsakh”. While they were ending their discussion as the majority of them agreed with the third – Dimboyan variant as it was sounded romantically in French, the doors of the cabinet opened and the breathless correspondent who was sent to the village of Mrs. Lizetta in the morning came in. They weren’t waiting for him so soon and just a look was enough to understand that something extraordinary happened. There was a sudden silence in the room and everybody was looking at the correspondent. The correspondent calmly sat on the chair at the door, putting his both hands on his head, started to swing as he was at burial. And suddenly the head editor lost his patience and shouted: “What happened, Ashot?” This shout as if woke up the correspondent and he said:
– I won’t say you anything, I will only read the complete list of the names of Lizetta Tatevosyan’s sons and you will decide what to do.
And the correspondent, taking the list from the package of his coat, started to read:
– Tatevosyan Petros Samvelovich;
– Tatevosyan Nikos Manvelovich;
– Tatevosyan Tatush Mamedovich;
– Tatevosyan Gavrush Samadovich;
– Tatevosyan Rachik Shotaevich;
– Tatevosyan Vachik Ivanovich;
– Tatevosyan Rantik Gabriel-Manuel-Fidel-Manuel-Carlos-Amigos don Juanovich.
There was a deep silence in the room and the cabinet of the head editor of “Soviet Karabakh” was like to a provincial branch of the museum of wax figures “Madam Tusso”… I won’t tire the readers with the complete details of how they escaped from that situation. I will only say that the company of “Let’s reach and outrun the Azerbaijanis in the number of childbirth” was operatively delayed and there was a call to the citizens about “Artsakh – the 51th state of America” to distract their attention from the below-mentioned company. There were sent telegrams to the USA, they started to rise up the problem of a new state at the meetings of Zori Balayan, and the local radio started the correspondence courses of English. People forgot about the company and the street “Friendship of nations” was renamed into “Riu de madam Elen Bonne” as the result of insistences of Dimboyan. They say, the restless Dimboyan, being informed about that one of the splendid night restaurants in Paris is called as “At Maxim’s” and name of the head editor of the newspaper “Soviet Karabakh” is Maxim too, tries at present to rename the shashlik cabaret “Artsakh” which is located at the Ryu street into “At Maxim’s from Artskah” in French, promising the visitors high quality of duck foods prepared at the kitchen of the “Soviet Karabakh”. The leadership of the city doesn’t protest to this idea. We will see. But cancans started training.
(to be continued)
How started the Karabakh war?
(beginning in the previous issues)
The body named as “district soviet” in Nagorno-Karabakh adopted a decision to separate from Azerbaijan at its meeting held on July 12, 1988. Representatives of Azerbaijani population were not invited to that meeting.
Azerbaijani Turks, which were living in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, were absolutely undefended in face of Armenian armed groups. Azerbaijani Turks in Nagorno-Karabakh were continuously attacked by Armenian groups. In Armenia attacks of Armenian armed groups during November-December of 1988 resulted in deportation of over 250 thousand Azerbaijani Turks from their native lands. All this was accompanied by unseen atrocities against peaceful population. 216 people were killed, including 57 women, 5 babies and 18 children of various ages. In November of 1988 in north-eastern part of Armenia in Vartan village 12 Azerbaijani were burned alive. As a result of policy of “ethnic cleansing” Armenians captured 172 settlements in which Azerbaijani Turks were living by centuries, 8 thousand sq.km of area. Local population which stayed alive was withdrawn by 1991. The last village Nuvedi with Azerbaijani Turks population was devastated on August 8 of 1991. People were forced to flee from their lands under the constant threat of death. Moral values inherent to Azerbaijani and Armenians were distinctly shown during the earthquake stroke in December of 1988 in Armenia. Immediately after the earthquake, on December 11 a special group flew by air to earthquake area. But the plane, which hurried for help was lead to disaster by control instruction crew of airport in Leninakan. 73 Azerbaijani were killed in a plane crash and only one person survived. No hospital in Armenia took care of that man and he was urgently transported to Baku. French rescuers arrived to help those suffered from earthquake, became eyewitnesses of an awful thing. They found a pipe with welded end from which they extracted 71 corpses of Azerbaijani children. It became known that Armenian bandits on November 12 pushed the children into the pipe and welded its both ends. This happened in front of eyes of Medina Sharifova, the mother of one of the children. The government in Moscow headed by M.Gorbachov supported “ethnic cleansing” and aggressive policy implemented by Armenia and did not hide their interest in strengthening of a country aggressor on expense of Azerbaijan’s territories. Significant role in continuation of events by this scenario belonged to Armenian surrounding of M.Gorbachov. After the earthquake M.Gorbachov arrived to Armenia, held a series of meetings there and criticized the activity of “Committee of Karabakh”. But this criticism left only in words. And despite the fact that immediately after M.Gorbachov’s visit the members of this Committee were imprisoned and sent to Moscow, six months later they were freed and upon return continued their activity.
Along with deportation of Azerbaijani Turks from Armenia, Armenians under various excuses tried to remove the control of Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. In a short time they succeeded in doing this. On June 24 of 1988 Moscow sent its envoy to Nagorno-Karabakh and thus, Arkadiy Volskiy was assigned the “representative of Political Bureau” in the region. On January 12 of 1989 Nagorno-Karabakh by decision of M.Gorbachov was withdrawn from the control of Azerbaijan and given directly to subjection of Moscow. To directly rule this region from the center there was established a special body – Special Governing Committee, which was headed by A.Volskiy, who never hided his pro-Armenian position. By this measure Moscow aimed as a next stage to speed up the annexation of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia. From the first day of his arrival into Karabakh, A.Volskiy supported Armenians, their armed groups and made everything possible to withdraw Azerbaijani Turks from these lands. Moscow also hoped that its open support would prevent Azerbaijan nation from serious resistance and tried to calm down and assure Azerbaijan by false promises. But soon after the enemies understood that they had a mistake.
(to be continued)
Georgians about Armenians
Nodar BERULAVA
Specialties of the psychological portrait of the Armenian nationalism
Nationalism is enough universal and full natural existence of our life. Traditionally, beginning from soviet times, we usually give negative meanings to this term, note it as an “aggressive” character and compare with “patriotism” – higher national feeling, tolerant to relations with other nations and giving rights for their acts. But the modern understanding of nationalism is much more complicated and keeps many characters in itself. It should be affirmed that at present time, far from ideal world, nationalism often serves not only for aggressive aims, but also is “the last settlement of scoundrels” and sometimes makes full defensive reaction of ethnos against abroad attacks. For our minds, it isn’t always needed to look over some aggressions of the nationalism by negative means as the passive, tolerant patriotism has clearly “defensive”, cultural character in the modern Georgia, practically appears as an incomplete effective barrier against the more persistent ideology of the neighbor nation (Armenians – red.).
According to this fact, we try to investigate some aspects of national feelings of the national ideology of the neighbor nation, and to compare it with ours, open their historical and psychological sources as possible and to base them on individual observations.
Let’s begin from that there aren’t the completely same nationalisms. Absolutely, the common moment here is less or more increased feelings of the originality of a nation, but each concrete event has its specialty, “accent”. For example, the most important part of national consciousness of Georgians is the national pride, feeling of belonging to ancient, completely original, honorable nation even it loses the national liberty. It isn’t by chance that now, when the Georgian nation had to shy for its helplessness in some tasks which their ancients were proud of, the new enemies have the intention of bringing, for example, a split among Georgians which they hadn’t planned even although the complicated relations among different branches of the Georgian nation are at the daily round level.
Of course, the national pride is the enough common peculiarity also for Armenians and is characteristic for them more than Georgians. But Armenians’ peculiarity is the feeling of sorrow for the lost historical chances, permanent historical “injustice” that “so talented nation” didn’t deserve, loneliness, and the idea of not waiting for a gift and not giving a gift, but to receive all gifts from the greedy fortune. It becomes clear the permanent search for strong supporter of Armenians and its distinctive for some other little nations and the deep belief is that the supporters aren’t permanent and if the fortune allows them to live under the shadow of a supporter, it will be possible to do this without conscience torture. This sounds to some of you as unexpected, but Georgians are maybe the only nation whom the majority of Armenians have indeed “alliance” feeling and have special intimacy. But, according to history, the last two centuries, this doesn’t mean that Georgians can’t have danger from this country. There are many things in Georgia that Armenians don’t have: fertile soil, sea, comfortable geographical position e. t. c. It was heard from Armenians many times that they could use these advantages better than “unpractical” Georgians. It should be noted that, if the second half of the XX century was characteristic for Georgians with the idea of national independence or decent existence under the empery, for Armenians it was typical with their disgrace, defaming of the stony country of the Caucasus without any special resources and exit to sea. Their main national aim is spreading. But how, it is another problem. It is clear that at first, to win those who are weak if the complete situation in the region allows. About the ideas of historical justice, Armenians can’t remember who treated Armenia justly. At last, he will be right who will prove that he is right and he wouldn’t regret for any power or methods for this. And here is the famous aggressiveness of the Armenian historiography and the complete history and policy of an Armenian official outside the level of his education.
(to be continued)
Samuel A.Weems
“Armenia: secrets of terrorist “Christian” state”
The great series of Armenian frauds
Vol. I
(beginning in previous flimsies)
Charter Six
AMERICAN ADMIRAL SEES ARMENIAN’S CLAIMS AS “ABSOLUTELY FALSE”
Peace conference gives Armenians nothing after hearing their claim for money damages
President Wilson, a preacher’s son, bought into their stories. Hovannissian brags about the success of the Armenian agents` work in reference to Wilson. He writes that the president “was undoubtedly stirred by an appeal from thirty state governors who asked recognition for the de facto Armenian government so that the representatives of that courageous Christian Armenian nation can participate in the Peace Conference at a time their question will be under consideration” (P 294 from the book of Hovannissian).
This is another example of how Hovannissian deals with half-truths. The real truth is that on January 8, 1918, President Wilson appeared before a joint session of Congress in Washington, Colombia, and set forth the aims and objectives of the United States in seeking peace after the end of World War I. He listed several specific nations to be helped: Russia, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Serbia, Montenegro and Poland. Not once did he mention Armenia. This is what the president said as to peace: “What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in, and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression. All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interest, and for our own pan we see very clearly that unless justice is done to others it will not be done to us. The program of the world’s peace, therefore, is our program; and that program, the only possible program, as we see it is this” (2).
President Wilson then presented to Congress what became known as his 14 Points for World Peace. The president dealt with the Ottoman Empire in point 12: “The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but other nationals which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees” (3).
These statements differ greatly from what the Armenians claim Wilson promised and what they were to receive. All Wilson ever told the Armenians and other peoples who sought independence was, “Undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development”. Armenia received such an opportunity.
The president promised “other nationalities” within the Ottoman Empire “an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development” and that was all. The Armenians got that and much more while attempting to deny the same promises to Georgia and Azerbaijan.
Christian officials asked for increased humanitarian aid and got it. (4) American charitable assistance to Armenia continued throughout the year. In fact, private charities poured money into this tiny country. The American Relief Administration alone delivered more than 50,000 metric tons of food before the fall of the year. Note that the Muslims, who suffered at much larger scale in terms of loss of life and property, didn’t even get recognition, let alone such massive humanitarian help.
In an effort to tap every possible source of free aid, one Armenian official even attempted “to secure sundry supplies and equipment from the surplus depots of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe, but, lacking international recognition and foreign credit, Armenia failed to qualify” (P 294).
(to be continued)
National Heroes of Azerbaijan
Native land was covered with black clouds…
The news about barbarous invasion of the Soviet armies in the night from 19th to 20th January 1990 in Baku city, which entailed the killing and wounding of hundreds of townspeople, has outright upset it. And it was going to celebrate its 26th birthday in number. But could not, that is not up to it…
Siyavush Hasan oglu Hasanov was born January 20, 1964 in the Yengidzhe village of Sharur district of Nakhchivan. After eight-year education, he entered to the 54th technical training college in capital of Azerbaijan, where he mastered the profession of a painter. Having worked some months as a painter in the House-Building Plant of the Baku Main Construction Administration (HBP MBCA), Siyavush went on active military service in the ranks of army of the former Soviet Union, which took place in Stavropol Territory of Russia.
Demobilized from the army, Hasanov continued his career in HBP. After a while there was an offer to create a detachment of 300 men to sending for work for 3 years period in Tyumen. In this list was also Siyavush. Some time passed, the boys have accustomed and willing to work. And continued to work, but terrible news about the bloody January events has not allowed… The next day after that sleepless and nightmarish night, it was decided to return home.
At once, after S.Hasanov’s returning has joined in the National Movement for fatherland protection. And when it was declared a voluntary self-defense battalion for protection of Karabakh, Siyavush was one of the first registered in its structure. He is a member of this battalion, fought with courage and has executed set of important combat missions in different regions of Azerbaijan, including in Gazakh, Geronboy, Gedebey, Shusha.
When Shusha – an impregnable fortress of Azerbaijan has been occupied by the Armenian armed gangs, Siyavush several days couldn’t find any peace. After all, this ancient Azerbaijan town reserve was built and developed by then-blood, kept by courage of thousands of famous sons of this nation.
After the failure in Shusha, S.Hasanov joined in police detachment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic. January 18, 1992, this detachment went in the direction of Agdere district and on the way released from enemy forces several villages, demonstrating the true courage and bravery.
25 June 1992 the new battle-order has been given to detachment: to release Girmizikend village. The detachment moved forward to the village. Suddenly, he came under fire of the enemy. Immediately strengthen its position, the detachment began to reflect an enemy counterattack. Fight became all more fiercely. Position was aggravated with that the tank of the opponent all approached to strengthening of the Azerbaijan policemen more close. Siyavush without hesitation pulled a hand grenade and threw it right on target. In a flash, the enemy tank was caught in a flame. But fire from the Armenian party didn’t stop.
Ammunition has ended in Siyavush, and he remained on the battlefield actually unarmed. That is a time an enemy bullet struck him… For the last time he looked at heavens of the Native land, which were still covered with black clouds. A fierce fighting proceeded on all border of Agdere district.
The body of the brave and fearless fighter was taken from the battlefield in a week…
He was family.
On July 21, 1992, Siyavush Hasan oglu Hasanov was posthumously conferred the honorary title of the National Hero of Azerbaijan by the decree of the President of Azerbaijan.
The hero was buried in the Alley of Martyrs in Baku.
Gadir NASIROV,
“Voice of Karabakh”