US Makes Billion Dollar Aid to Armenia Despite of the Occupation
Journal of Turkish Weekly
May 8 2005
The US Government does not like military occupations. Washington
imposed embargos against Syria and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq for Lebanon
and Kuwait occupations. Serbia which breached international law in
Kosovo and Bosnia was bombed by the American air planes. However
Armenia which occupied 20 percent of another European country’s
territories (Azerbaijan) is not under such an American threat. As a
matter of fact that Washington prefers to give a gift to ‘occupier’
and ‘aggressive’ state as the EU named Yerevan:
The Millennium Challenge Account was unveiled by the Bush
administration in 2004 and Armenia is among 17 developing nations
eligible for the program’s first $1 billion aid allocation.Armenia
has already been a leading per-capita recipient of U.S. assistance
which has totaled more than $1.5 billion since 1992, when Armenian
forces poured into the Azerbaijani territories. More than 1 million
Azerbaijanis have been refugee since then. Baku accuses Armenia of
committing genocide in 1918 and in Hocali. The Economist (London)
described the picture in Hacali after the Armenian attacks as follow:
‘Some of the bodies of Azeri refugees slaughtered by Armenian fighters
as they tried to escape from the town of Khojally were clearly visible
from the helicopter. The town had been captured by the Armenians on
February 25th. A week later bodies of men, women and children lay
scattered where they had fallen in the bleak snow-covered mountains
of Nagorno-Karabakh. Several had apparently been shot at point-blank
range. One survivor told how he had seen Armenians shooting people
lying on the ground. Two of the men had been scalped, and one woman’s
fingers had been hacked off.’ (‘A View To A Slaughter’, The Economist,
7 March 1992.)
JTW 8 May 2005