Republic of Armenia : Terrorism as a part of state policy

international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis Wednesday February 04, 2004 16:24 by Mike

KARABAKH : THE CHRONICLE OF THE ARMENIAN AGGRESSION

The policy of ethnic cleansing pursued by the Armenians in the territory of Armenia has been crowned with an absolute result - today not a single Azerbaijani is living in the territory of Armenia. They were forcibly driven out by means of extremely brutal methods. They were killed by the doctors in hospitals, tortured, beheaded, burnt alive.

Karabakh is an ancient Azerbaijan land, one of the first centers of human civilization; testified by the archaeological excavations in the caves of Azikh, Khanlar and some others. Originally Karabakh was a part of the Caucasian Albania - an ancient Azerbaijan state, ethnically consisting of the Turkish and the tribes speaking in the Caucasian language. And in the Middle Ages Karabakh was a part of the Azerbaijan states formations like Atabeys, Eldaghizes, Gara-Goyunlu, Ag-Goyunlu, Safavids. With the start of disunity of feudalism some khanates were formed in the Azerbaijan territory, among them the Karabakh khanate, the first governor of which was Panah Ali-khan. Governor's new residence - Panahabad, a fortress, later called Shusha became the capital of the Karabakh khanate. The Karabakh khanate rapidly developed during the years of Ibrahim-Khalil khan's reign, establishing diplomatic and commercial relations with other Azerbaijan khanates, as well as with Turkey, Iran, Georgia As a result of the Russian-Iran and Russian-Turkey wars in the first third of the XIX| century the Northern Azerbaijan, including the Karabakh khanate, was made a part of Russia. According to the post-war peaceful treaties the migration of the Armenian population from the territory of the neighboring Moslem states to the territory of former Azerbaijan khanates began. More than 1.000.000 Armenian migrants were settled in the new lands, including Karabakh. In that way the Russian tsarism tried "to dilute" the population of its new Moslem outskirts with Christians. That was the time when the first territorial conflicts between the Armenian migrants and local Azerbaijani population began.
History testifies: ?????? ?.?. "????? ?????? ???????? ????" (?????-?????????, 1911 ???. 59-61): "From 1828 to 1830 we settled to Transcaucasus more than 40000 Persian and 84600 Turkish Armenians and installed them in the best government lands of Elizavetopol and Erivan provinces, where the number of the Armenian population was very small. Happily ended Turkish war of 1877-79 endowed us with a stream of new Asiatic settlers: about 50 thousands Armenians and about 40 thousands Greeks were settled in the Kars region... By the time of the arrival of the re-appointed governor of the region G.S.Golitsin in 1897 there already were not 100thousand of the Armenian settlers as in 1894, but about 900 thousand. The greatest number of the settlers are of the Armenian origin, from 1 mln 300 thousand persons living in Transcaucasus nowadays, more than 1 mln don't belong to the native population of the region and have been settled here by us.
...Using false testimony, the Armenians, who were landless migrants, seized vast areas of lands" belonging to the state.
History testifies: ?.?.????????? "??????? ? ??????????? ????? ?? ?????? ? ???? ???????" (???. ? 2-? ?????. ??????, ?. 1971, ?. 339 - 341): "The Armenians mostly have been settled in lands of the Moslem Landowners.
...The settlers live in crowds and make the Moslem grumble at the lack of space. ... Besides we discussed a great deal of those instilling which should be done to the Moslems so as to reconcile them with their burden, which is not going to be long, and to eradicate their fears that the Armenians will have the lands for ever which they were first allowed to settle."

Ethnic "Cleansing" and Seizure of Territories
Inspired by the support of the tsarist colonial authorities the Armenian leaders put forward the idea of creation of a buffer "Armenian state" - The Great Armenia "from sea to sea". Their territorial claims cover huge territories of Azerbaijan (Nakhichevan, Zangezur, Karabakh) and Georgia. Armenian terrorist organizations repeatedly arranged bloody massacres of Azerbaijanis in Zangezur, Baku, Karabakh and other places (in 1895, 1904-1905,1918 etc.), and thousands of peaceful population turned victims of these massacres.
With the decay of the Russian Empire and formation of three independent Transcaucasian states (1918-1920) the territorial claims of Armenia led to the beginning of the Armenian Georgian and Armenian-Azerbaijan wars. Hundreds thousand of Azerbaijanis were driven out of their native lands, the province of Zangezur was captured as a result and Nakhchivan was cut off the main land of Azerbaijan. Under the pressure of Bolsheviks, who occupied the mountainous part of Karabakh, where the Armenian migrants formed the majority as a result of the migration policy of the tsarist authorities and ... attacks of the Armenian bandits, Karabakh was declared an Armenian autonomy within the territory of Azerbaijan.
Then in 1946, 1961, 1965, 1976 the Armenian leaders again tried to tear away the mountainous part of Karabakh from Azerbaijan with the help of the leadership of the former USSR. Attempts of violent seizure of other territories of Azerbaijan included in the mythical "Great Armenia", did not cease. 1984 -1.700 hectare of lands were seized in the district of Gazakh; 1985 - 40 hectare of lands in the district of Lachin; 1986 - the Armenian side tried to capture lands in the district of Gadabey and Gazakh.
Then come the events of February of 1988. The armed Armenian separatists ported and directed from Armenia began a new large-scale territorial expansion During 1988-93 the Armenian armed formations, using considerable military, political and financial support from abroad, carried out mass deportation of the Azerbaijanis from Armenia, seized the mountainous part of Karabakh and other seven bordering districts - about 20 per cent of the Azerbaijan territory. In December of 1993 - February of 1994 - the national army of Azerbaijan repulsed the attacks of the Armenian troops in the directions of Beylagan and Tartar and launched a counter attack liberating 25 populated areas. Despite of the resolutions of the UN Security Council No 822, 853, 874, 884 which demand the unconditional evacuation of the occupied Azerbaijani territories, the Republic of Armenia violates the UN Charter, the OSCE principles, the Paris Charter and continues her aggression against Azerbaijan. The basic norms of international law - respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of states, inviolability of borders, non-interference into one's internal affairs, right to live and security of millions of Azerbaijanis? have been violated by Armenia.

Political and Legal Aggression
On December 1,1989, the Armenian parliament together with the National Assembly of the Nagorno Karabakh adopted a joint resolution "On the reunification of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Nagrno Karabakh"
On January 9,1990 the Supreme Soviet of Armenia adopted the state plan of economic development of the Republic for 1990 which also included the Nagorno Karabakh.
In May of 1990 the Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia. 12 electoral districts were organized in the Nagorno Karabakh. At present 12 deputies of the Armenian Parliament are from the Nagorno Karabakh including Robert Kocharyan, the chairman of the so-called Defense Council of the Nagorno Karabakh .
In August of 1990, the Armenian Parliament adopted the "Declaration on the sovereignty of Armenia" which again confirmed the joint resolution on the reunification of Armenia and the Nagorno Karabakh . In June of 1992, the Armenian Parliament passed a resolution in which the following was said in particular:
1. In order to guarantee the security of the Republic of the Nagorno Karabakh and its population the Republic of Armenia is to ensure their defense.
2. To consider any document stating that Nagorno Karabakh is an integral part of Azerbaijan as unacceptable for the Republic of Armenia.
3. To carry out a purposeful military mobilization in the Republic of Armenia, in connection with the situation to create necessary conditions for observing law and order, and take measures for preserving military secrets.
Strictly following the second item of the above mentioned resolution Armenia is the only state among the participants of many conferences that rejected the final document on the Karabakh conflict, not accepting the part of the document where the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan was mentioned:
- the annual conference of the foreign ministers of CSCE countries in 1993 in Rome;
- on April 15, 1994, in Moscow, Armenia again rejected another similar document -"Declaration on observance of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of borders of states" - signed by all the presidents of member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States;
- the summit OSCE countries in 1996 in Lisbon
- in September of 1994 a resolution on the unification of monetary systems of Armenia and the Nagorno Karabakh was adopted.
We stress these facts because Armenia is a member state of the United Nations, OSCE and CIS, the Charters of which recognize the territorial integrity of all member
states, including Azerbaijan.

Genocide
The policy of ethnic cleansing pursued by the Armenian Nazis in the territory of Armenia has been crowned with an absolute result - today not a single Azerbaijani is living in the territory of Armenia. They were forcibly driven out by means of extremely brutal methods. Out of the 216 killed 57 were women, 5 infants and 18 children. They were killed by the doctors in hospitals, tortured, beheaded, burnt alive. The Azerbaijanis were also burnt in the territory of thus, during the Armenian attack to Baganis Ayrum, a bordering village with Armenia, 7 Azerbaijanis were driven into the shed, were thrown petrol and burnt. The youngest of the victims was several months old, and the oldest was 70. The Armenian monsters of cruelty repeated the same terrible act in a farm in the same Karabakh . They burned there 6 people alive. And an absolute result was achieved in Karabakh , not a single Azerbaijani remained there. But one day the Karabakh tragedy shook the whole world. At night of the 26th of February 1992 the Armenian terrorists, supported by division 366 of the joint military forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States, seized the Azerbaijani town of Khojaly. In order to imagine how they were killed, and generally to understand what is the meaning of primordial Armenian antiturkism and anti-Islamism, we quote a document, prepared by the independent authoritative lawyers from Moscow. It is called: "Report of the lawyers centre "Memorial" on mass violation of human rights, connected with the seizure of Khojaly settlement by the armed formations at night between the 25th - 26th of February 1992". Let us quote only one example: "The corpses taken off to Agdam had the traces of gibing. The doctors of hospital train of Agdam fixed more than 4 scalped bodies, one beheaded body. The cases of alive persons being scalped were also stated."

The Consequences of the Armenian Aggression
As a result of "ethnic cleansing", followed by summary massacres, executions and torture of peaceful inhabitants in Yerevan, Gugark, Masis, Gafan, Spitak and other settlements of the Republic of Armenia, 216 Azerbaijanis including 57 women, 5 infants, 18 children have been killed. Over 200 thousand Azerbaijanis have been forcibly driven out from 172 burnt Azerbaijani villages in the Armenian Republic. Today Armenia has become the only monoethnic state among the 15 former USSR republics. And in Azerbaijan itself, as a result of Armenian aggression, over 800.000 Azerbaijanis from the upper part of Karabakh and regions adjoining to it have become refugees. About 600000 refugees out of 1 million are children, women and old people. More than 18000 Azerbaijanis, mainly women, old people and children , have been killed by the Armenian butchers.
Over 50000 people have been wounded or have been taken hostage, including 320 women, 173 old people and 71 children. 17000 km of land (about 20% of the territory of the whole republic), have been occupied by the Armenian armed forces. The Armenian troops control over 100 km of the Azerbaijan frontier with Iran. More than 6000 industrial, agricultural and construction enterprises, more than 107000 residential buildings, 741 secondary schools, 219 kindergartens, 250 medical centers have been destroyed. More than 300 cultural-historical monuments of Azerbaijan, including the Mausoleum of Molla Panah Vagif, U.Hajibeyov's and Bul-Bul's museums and others have been pillaged and destroyed, thousands of Azerbaijani cemeteries have been ruined. Decade long tragedy is still continuing.