Karen Nazaryan submitted letter to UN Sec Gen on Baku and Sumgait events
12:06 / 02/24/2010
On the occasion of the anniversary of tragic events of Sumgait and Baku, as well as on the pogroms and massacres of the Armenian population in other Azeri cities, RA Permanent Representative to UN, Ambassador Karen Nazaryan has submitted a letter to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Ambassador’s letter states that the Azerbaijani side keeps spreading very low in quality and cheap in content propaganda materials with the sole target to mislead the international community through impressive falsifications and defamatory facts and figures.
“I regret the fact that Azerbaijan does not cease playing the game of getting into the image of victim of so-called &‘Armenian aggression.’ With this aim Azerbaijan falsifies not only the well-known truth about the tragic events, but also the witnesses of the Azerbaijani sources of the time. The cynicism of the way it’s done is frightening in its simplicity”.
Ambassador Karen Nazaryan also refers to the interview of the former President of Azerbaijan Ayaz Mutalibov with Czech journalist Dana Mazalova in April 1992. Mutalibov stated that the militia of the Azerbaijani National Front actively obstructed and actually prevented the evacuation of the local civilian population from the military operation zone through the mountain passages specifically left open by Karabakhi Armenians. The hope and intention of the Azerbaijani opposition was to utilize civilian losses of such a magnitude to instigate a popular uprising against the Baku regime and seize the reins of power.
In a witness account brought by The Helsinki Watch report of September 1992 an Azerbaijani woman is quoted as confirming that Armenians had notified the Azerbaijani civilian population to leave the town with white flags raised. In fact the Azerbaijani militia shot those who attempted to flee.
The letter further notes that “The international community has already witnessed and confirmed the countless atrocities of Azerbaijani Government towards the defenseless Armenian population. As a response to a peaceful and constitutional demand of the Nagorno-Karabakh people to exercise its right to self-determination, the Azeri authorities organized an armed mob which launched pogroms against Armenians living in the Azeri city of Sumgait in 1988.
These massacres were the first acts of mass killings on the territory of Soviet Union, as witnessed by the criminal proceedings launched by the Soviet authorities. Immediately after declaring its independence Azerbaijan freed the accused murderers and openly saluted them as national heroes through mass media.
Armenian Ambassador strongly believes that the better solution would be the restoration of the fundamental and lawful rights of the Armenians of the Nagorno-Karabakh by addressing their inalienable right to self-determination.”
Armenian Ambassador strongly believes that the better solution would be the restoration of the fundamental and lawful rights of the Armenians of the Nagorno-Karabakh by addressing their inalienable right to self-determination.”
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