Armenia led by war criminals – The Hill

Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 17 By Elena Kosolapova – Trend: While using the propaganda, Armenia is trying to rehabilitate the war crimes committed by this country against the Azerbaijani people, the U.S. Azeris Network (USAN) military analyst Denis Jaffe wrote in an article published in The Hill newspaper. “If one is to believe the Armenian lobby’s cliché narrative, Azerbaijan is an appalling country, whilst Armenia is the land of the free and the brave, the land of hope and democracy,” the article says. “Armenia has a real moral and ethical deficit, putting it in no position to point fingers at its neighbors such as Azerbaijan when discussing international law and human rights.” Jaffe wrote that Azerbaijan was militarily attacked by Armenia, all the war fighting took place on the territory of Azerbaijan, a part of Azerbaijani territory is still occupied by Armenia. Around 250,000 Azerbaijanis were ethnically cleansed from Armenia and had to flee to Azerbaijan. “Armenia also conducted the genocide against the population in Azerbaijani city of Khojaly, where in one night over 600 people were brutally massacred (and the people who participated on the Armenian side are now the president and the defense minister of that country),” the article says. “Azerbaijan received about $1 billion in U.S. aid since 1992, whilst Armenia received almost $3 billion in the same time,” the author wrote. “Not content with this, Armenia also illegally develops Azerbaijan’s natural resources, such as gold mines in occupied Kelbajar district. The current Armenian president, Serzh Sargsyan, set something of a dubious record in 2008 – ordering the largest beating and killing of civilian protesters.” And just a few weeks ago, a motorcade of 30 cars with Armenian opposition activists driving from Armenia into the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region got severely beaten and cars damaged by the Armenian riot police and secret service – much of it caught on camera. “It’s a hard to take seriously Armenian apologists trying to talk about human rights and democracy in Azerbaijan, when they have such incidents take place in their own backyard,” the article says. Armenian government and society are violating human rights of the few hundred Jews who have the misfortune to stay. Rabbi Israel Barouk lists some eye-opening facts: "Knowing the historical background of Armenian anti¬-Semitism, perhaps it is less surprising to analyze a 2014 international survey on current trends in anti-Semitism, conducted by ADL. The survey showed that 1.3 million out of 2.2 million adults in Armenia share anti-Semitic beliefs. Armenia actually took first place as the most anti-Semitic country in Eastern Europe, and held for 3rd place across all of Europe. To demonstrate the fever, Armenia tallied in as 2 percent more anti-¬Semitic than Iran. Considering the level of anti-¬Semitism in Armenia, one can understand why Iran and Syria are two of Armenia's most important allies today." Finally, it is truly dystopian to accuse Azerbaijan, with a straight face, of "blatant disregard to international law", for shooting down an Armenian military helicopter, with three uniformed Armenian soldiers, that was illegally conducting drills and maneuvers deep inside the Azerbaijani airspace, in the Armenia-occupied Aghdam region of Azerbaijan (which is not even part of the Armenia-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan), the article says. All Armenia needs to do is remove its military from Azerbaijan – and peace will immediately follow, together with improved democratic climate and stronger human rights protections for all. --- follow the author on Twitter: @E_Kosolapova Follow us on Twitter @TRENDNewsAgency