AZERBAIJANI ‘FIRE’ FABLE
By Aghavni Harutyunian

AZG Armenian Daily
20/06/2006

The recent favorite topic of Azerbaijani online newspapers was "the
conflagration of fields" by Armenians in non-existent bordering
settlements.

Moreover, the made-up tumult grew into accusation and false
denunciation to international structures "on annihilation of Azeri
settlements by the Armenians."

Perhaps the cause for worry about these extremely dubious settlements
is conflagration in Nagorno Karabakh lowlands that cannot be stifled
because of the firing from the Azeri side.

It should be reminded that a few years ago authorities in Nagorno
Karabakh applied to the Azerbaijani side via the OSCE Minsk Group
suggesting to cooperate in stifling the seasonal fires.

It’s not something new that the Azeri side does not discern methods
used against the Armenian side. If editing of their own officials’
statements is an everyday business, it is perhaps the boredom that
makes Azerbaijani journalists to bring diversity in the anti-Armenian
propaganda by using illogical creativity. Such as declaration of
uncommitted genocide, for one, or "subversive fires", quotations from
Zori Balayan’s "unwritten book" etc.