AZERBAIJAN CONTINUES PROPAGANDA WAR MISLEADING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

HULIQ, NC
Jan 10 2008

It is true that in today’s world the strength of arms will not conquer
any land or resolve any war. Azerbaijan continues wrongly accusing
Armenia and misleading international community on the issue of Nagorno
Karabakh conflict.

Khazar Ibragim, the spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan,
in today’s edition of Today.AZ is in offensive mode saying "Armenia
not only held ethnic cleansing in Azerbaijan but also continues to
occupy Azerbaijani lands."

This is outright lie because it is the mass killings of Armenians
in Sumgait in February 1988 and in Baku that escalated the conflict
between Armenia and Azerbaijan prompting people to take arms.

Many educated people know about how people of Azerbaijan massacred
ethnic Armenians in the azeri city of Sumgait. U.S. congressman Frank
Pallone in 2006 has called for recognition of Sumgait Massacres of
ethnic Armenians. "Mr. Speaker, I stand to recognize the massacres
in Sumgait, Azerbaijan and the continued Turkish and Azeri aggression
against the Armenian people."

Mr. Pallone goes on saying "Mr. Speaker, These crimes were never
adequately prosecuted by the government of Azerbaijan, and most of
its organizers and executors were set free. Despite the attempt by
the government of Azerbaijan to cover up these crimes, enough brave
witnesses came forward to give an accurate account of these offenses."

This is what has result in the present negotiation stage to recognize
the self-determination rights of the Armenian community of Nagorno
Karabakh. If the Kosovo Albanians think that due to the massacres
of Serbs it’s impossible to live with Serbia and Kosovo should be
independent state, the same holds true in case of Nagorno Karabakh
and Azerbaijan.

Armenia will mark the 20th anniversary of the Armenian massacres in the
Azerbaijani town of Sumgait. Vartan Oskanian, the Foreign Minister of
Armenia noted that Sumgait is highly important because it is closely
connected with the Karabakh conflict. The military component of the
Karabakh conflict settlement originated in Sumgait and if Azerbaijan
wants to make peace with Armenia it needs to remember this and condemn
any ethnic cleanising. The first attempt of ethnic cleansings took
place there, and led the people of Karabakh to the irreversibility
of the idea of self-determination and independence of Nagorno Karabakh.