HAY TAD CYPRUS Vs EURO NEWS
Gibrahayer – Nicosia
Armenian National Committee of Cyprus Press Release (24 February,
2010) – The Armenian National Committee of Cyprus is greatly
disappointed that the TV channel Euro news has produced and broad
casted in early February a false and biased video report on the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict named `Forgotten Victims Of A Frozen
Conflict’ (
-a-frozen-conflict/).
The Euro news reporters, among many inaccuracies, have failed to
comprehend the following:
That Nagorno-Karabakh was never part of Azerbaijan, as such a country
never existed till 1918 when Azerbaijan was formed. That to the
peaceful and civilised demonstrations of the Armenian in Yerevan and
Stepanakert in February 1988, the Azeris responded with massacres of
innocent Armenians in Sumgait and later in Kirobavad and Baku where
the Soviet army interfered to stop the massacres. During these
massacres, some Armenians where burnt ali ve, after which the Azeris
used to dance over the charred bodies. These were scenes reminiscent
to the genocide of the Armenian in Western Armenia from 1915 to 1923.
In 1988 that Azeri forces started the forced evacuation of the
Armenian population of Shahumian north of Nagorno-Karabakh in 1988,
whilst in 1991 the Azeri Ministry of Interior Forces (OMON) forcibly
evacuated the Armenian population of a few dozen villages of southern
Hadrut area of Nagorno-Karabagh. The report misses to point out that
Nagorno-Karabakh was completely blockaded by the Azeris, with no links
(neither aerial, nor land) to the outside world from 1988 to 1992. Its
population had to face hunger and the cold harsh prolonged winters of
those years.
The report also misses to point out in contradiction to a few Islamic
monuments which are relati vely new constructions, there are thousands
of Christian Armenian monuments (many of them ancient) in and around
Nagorno-Karabakh.
Euro news should not sacrifice the truth for the benefit of `balanced
reporting’. The story of Armenian over the centuries has been that of
a retracting country with settlers forcibly settling its areas. On the
other the story of the Turkic Tatar tribes (such as that of the modern
day Azeris) was that of an ever expanding settlements. This had to
stop somewhere and it stopped in Nagorno-Karabakh.
We urge all Armenians to go to the Euro news web site at
and protest the airing of the aforementioned report.
Contact The Chairman of The Armenian National Committee Cyprus Hagop
Manougian on [email protected]