Yuriy POMPEYEV, professor, doctor of culturology, member of Council of writers of Russia, academic of RANS
Chronicle of the announced murders
Khojali lessons
(beginning in the previous issues)
On February 26 and 27, nearly in the early morning the minister for foreign affairs of Iran Ali Akbar Velayati arrived in Ganja with the mission of peace. He couldn’t fly to Khankendi: Armenian side didn’t guarantee the safety of the flight on the contrary of recently made agreement about stopping firing. It seems the agreement was only about Khojalians. Visit of Velayati to the zone of undeclared military activities was delayed purposely: professional killers from the line of self-sacrifiers and soldiers of special regiment of Russia proved to all countries that they didn’t need any mission of peace and agreement. Their way was escalation of aggression and violence.
But the time has come again awakened Armenian chronic disease appropriation of foreign lands, as it was at the beginning of the last century. And the Armenians, who always sat in the place of honor guest at our table and ate our bread and salt, began to fight against us. Over the three-year war imposed to us by them, destroyed hundreds of settlements, about 20 thousand of our citizens were killed and hundreds of thousands have been injured, many were missing. Personally, I lost in the course of this war many relatives and friends.
19 years ago not without the aid of Russian “big brother” Armenians expelled us from homes. The people, who have left the houses with barehanded, were endured incredible moral and physical tortures during the first times. In those days and the state was weak, after the entire Soviet device went wrong, and the national government only just revived. On the other hand, strong flow of refugees and internally displaced persons during such time was put by the leaders of the republic in the extremely difficult situation. But gradually with humanitarian assistance of the separate countries and the international organizations tent small towns were broken, and the whole 10-12 years people were compelled to live in tents that seriously affected their health.
Already in the territory of the republic there are no tent small towns, the state constructed tens standard small towns where all conditions for normal life are created. However, these small towns far don’t cover all internally displaced persons, and their most part still has serious housing and social problems.
But matter not only in it. Even if all to one immigrant would be provided with the dwelling and work, it everything can’t exactly calm them soul. No highest living conditions can compensate feeling of draft on native places where our natives are buried. No pleasure, any fun can clean taken roots in the heart of an eye of the internally displaced person grief and melancholy for numerous losses…
Till today our lands remain under the Armenian occupation. Certainly, we won’t leave at the enemy and a span of our lands and we will restore territorial integrity of the country. But the deepest moral wound put to the Azerbaijani people by Armenia, hardly will recover. At the same time intrigues of this conflict imposed to us by Armenia, also have now an effect. Here, for example, Ramil Safarov who serves sentence of a life imprisonment in Hungary for murder of the Armenian and to which, by the way, this August was executed 35 years, my close relative. Personally I, of course, regret concerning the happened. But after all and it is bitter result of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. Why the killed Armenian should profane a flag of Azerbaijan and by that to exasperate Ramil? Why innocent old men, women, children, these two young officers should pay off with life because of political ambitions of group of the Armenian villains, entering of this opposition?
Yes, many questions continue to remain open. And, I think, while the conflict won’t be solved, questions and problems won’t decrease, on the contrary, they will be more and more, and they will lead, eventually, to war renewal. I don’t understand, whether it is wanted by the international organizations, which here are fruitlessly “occupied” twenty years with negotiation process on conflict settlement?
As one of the millions army of refugees and internally displaced persons as the participant of the Karabakh war, I address to the international community, to the United Nations, OSCE and its Minsk Group: don’t allow to happen to new troubles in our region, don’t tighten more negotiation process, be wise and fair!
Vahid ALISHOV,
Internally displaced person from Jabrail district
From the editor: On August 31 of this year, R.Safarov, referred to the letter, was extradited from Hungary to Azerbaijan and by the order of President I.Aliyev pardoned.
Congratulations, Azerbaijan!
With freedom you Ramil!