THE AZERBAIJANI MASS MEDIA CONTINUE PRACTICING FORGERIES
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2009-12-24 17:37
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
The Azerbaijani mass media have once again lost their way in broad
daylight, trying to depict the Karabakh party in an unfavourable
light. During a day, the woman, who was killed on December 20, 2009
on the NKR and Azerbaijani armed forces’ contact-line first by an
"Armenian" serviceman, then, as it was found out, by an Azerbaijani
soldier, turned from an "Armenian woman" into an Azerbaijani one.
Moreover, a photo of a Georgian woman made in August 2008 during the
war in South Ossetia was attached to the information.
The Azerbaijani mass media have practiced forgeries in their
anti-Armenian propaganda for a long time. This was fixed not only
by the Karabakh party. The Moscow edition New Region notes that the
Azerbaijani mass media have, at least, three times used forgeries for
the last three months, applying photomaterials of various countries
for "proving the facts of the Armenian aggression". Besides the
abovementioned forgery of the Azerbaijani Agency Vesti.az related to
the killed woman, the edition notes as an example the distribution
of a photo of a Georgian soldier killed in August 2008 "to confirm"
the Karabakh party’s losses allegedly taken place as a result of the
NKR Defense Army units’ attacking the Azerbaijani positions. In fact,
everything was exactly the contrary.
Besides, the Russian edition unmasked Trend Azerbaijani information
agency, which had informed of the completion of a documentary about
the Karabakh conflict, attaching a photo of alleged "victims of the
Armenian aggression", which, in fact, turned out to be a photo of
deceased citizens of Kosovo taken from a Canadian francophone website.
This forgery related to the tragic events in Khojaly and placed at some
Azerbaijani websites, including the one of the basic anti-Armenian
misinformation center of the Heydar Aliyev Fund (),
the leader of which is the Azerbaijani President’s wife, was earlier
diclosed by the NKR Foreign Ministry.
We have to state once more that against the background of the
proceeding meetings of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents and
the optimistic statements of the international mediators on certain
progress in the Karabakh conflict settlement process, official Baku
and its improvised mass media continue their aggressive information
war against the RA and NKR, using all the means for introducing the
Armenian parties as the misdeeds’ actors and for injecting a new
portion of Armenian-hatred poison into the international community’s
and their own people’s mind.
Unfortunately, this destructive policy of official Baku isn’t properly
assessed by corresponding international structures, which is fraught
with nullifying the multiyear peacemaking efforts.
"Democratic" Azerbaijan "integrating" into the West and its
"independent" mass media should finally realize that freedom of speech
is not freedom of misinformation.
We hope that in the coming year, the international community will
take the counterproductive actions of the Azerbaijani authorities
more seriously.