ZOMBYING OF THE AZERBAIJANI PUBLIC AT THE TOP LEVEL PURSUES QUITE
SPECIFIC GOALS: POLITICAL ANALYST

STEPANAKERT, MARCH 30. ARMINFO. “Ilham Aliyev’s speech is nothing but
a vaccine ruining the immune system of the Azerbaijani people. The
zombying of the Azerbaijani public at the top level pursues quite
specific goals,” David Babayan, Karabakh political expert says
commenting on the so-called “Genocide of Azerbaijanis” marked on
March 31 in Azerbaijan.

The analyst says that the Azerbaijani president presents Armenians
as the only enemy of Azerbaijan in the world. Such a policy
affects the Karabakh conflict’s settlement, which is moved from the
Karabakh-Azerbaijan to Armenia-Azerbaijan relations, hereby having
a negative influence on the stability in the South Caucasus, on the
whole. No constructive steps or compromises can be expected from a
country whose leader propagandizes anti-Armenism. Moreover, in his
speech, Ilham Aliyev openly claims also Zangezour, D. Babayan says.

The expert believes that creating the image of an enemy, makes the
Azerbaijani public manageable and radical. In fact, this radicalism
will easily turn into terrorism. The barbarian destruction of the
khachkars in Julfa is nothing but a cultural terrorism, D. Babayan
believes. If the president says that Armenian occurred in Nakhijevan in
the 19th century, they cannot be Armenian Christian cultural monuments
of the 9th century, D. Babayan says.

He says by such policy, the Azerbaijani authorities give their
national minorities to understand that any demand for observation
of their rights will be considered a solidarity with Armenians and
enmity to the Azerbaijani people. The given approach is nothing but
a forced mechanism to form the Azerbaijani people. The Azerbaijani
(Turkic) elite tries to forcefully assimilate Lezgins, Talishes, Tats
and other peoples into a single Turkic ethnos. It should be noted
that the ethnonym “Azerbaijanis” originate only in 1936 and then the
Soviet authorities took the course of forming the united Azerbaijani
people of all the Islamic peoples of Azerbaijan, D. Babayan said. The
analyst says the unhealthy craving for historical falsifications is
the state policy of Azerbaijan now.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress