The Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) of Armenia, Arman Tatoyan, presented a new special report on the policy of hatred conducted by the Azerbaijani authorities towards Armenia and Armenians.

As Tatoyan told a press conference Friday, this report is based on the monitoring conducted after the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war in the fall of 20220, its research was conducted in its original—Azerbaijani—language, and it presents many specific facts.

According to the ombudsman, the Armenophobic policy backed by the Azerbaijani authorities is based on two “pillars”: religious and national affiliation—and this extends to all domains. Moreover, it is not so much about Armenia’s authorities or the Armenian statehood, but about ordinary Armenians.

The Human Rights Defender stressed that the intensification of the religious component is accompanied by a policy of destroying Armenian cultural heritage.

Tatoyan added that the policy of hatred towards Armenians is one of the key factors for the Azerbaijani authorities to be able to retain power by sidetracking the Azerbaijani public from their domestic issues, and therefore the Azerbaijani authorities are not going to end this policy of theirs.

Arman Tatoyan noted that the objective of this report is to show the fake peace-lovingness of Azerbaijan.