From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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Subject: Re: "Travesty International" and the Armenian genocide of Azeris.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 21:22:37 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <1992Nov16.045241.25958@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger) writes:

>Two things:
>1. Why are there no articles more recent than early March?

See "Turan News". 

>2. Remember: Those who oppose Armenia's ownership of Nagorno-Karabakh
>on the grounds that it is not connected to Armenia conveniently ignore
>the fact that Azerbaijan owns Nakhichevan, which is completely
>separated from the rest of Azerbaijan.

Imagination can cause plenty of stress, certainly more than it should.
Nagorno-Karabag is a mountainous enclave that lies completely within 
Azerbaijan with no border or history whatsoever connected to x-Soviet 
Armenia. Besides the geographical aspect, Nagorno-Karabag is the 
historic homeland and the 'cradle' of the artistic and literary heritage 
of Azerbaijan, which renders the Armenian claims preposterous, even 
lunatic. Early in this century the Armenians pulled the same trick 
on the Turks as well. They claimed that they were a majority in the six 
Eastern provinces of Turkiye while they accounted for only one-fifth. In 
this stunt, they relied on the Christian solidarity against Islam. No one 
in his or her mind could have imagined that one day such a devious turn 
of event could have plagued the Azeris. One cannot even imagine the 
reverse case to occur, for the Armenians either would have slaughtered 
the Azerbaijanis, or put them to forced exile to maintain their own
majority. 

Azerbaijan is dedicated to establish a free and independent state
as agreed in 1917 in Moscow, during the Muslim States of Russia
Convention. This was agreed upon not only for Azerbaijani Turks
but also Northern Caucasian Turks, Turkestan Turks, Idil-Ural
Turks and others. 

Here we are, almost at the end of the 20th century, and a whole 
community, the Azeri Turks of x-Soviet Armenia and Karabag, is 
facing forced assimilation, torture and murder on one hand and 
forced exodus, expulsion and genocide on the other, all because 
of their ethnic and religious background. And one should ask herself: 
is the world community really so powerless? Where are all those human 
rights advocates? Where are all the decent people? Are we going to 
let this human tragedy go on and do nothing about it? The number
of Azeris murdered by the terrorist Armenian army and its savage
gangs is increasing. On the one hand they wish to distort the truth
and on the other, they beg mercy from Turkiye.

The scenario and genocide staged by the Armenians 77 years ago in 
the Ottoman Empire is being reenacted again - this time in Azerbaijan. 
There are remarkable similarities between the plots, the perpetrators, 
and the underdogs. In addition, Nakhicevan and its Azeri population
of about 300,000 have been under virtual siege since 1988. The
Armenian soldiers are holding up the trains, firing at the vehicles
and disrupting contact between Nakhicevan and Azerbaijan. 

        Milliyet, March 4 1992, p. 1, by Altan OYMEN

           IT'S INHUMANE TO IGNORE THIS VIOLENCE

The stories of survivors of Karabag massacre are in Milliyet today.

69 year old Hatin Nine telling:

-''My Twin grandchildren were cut to pieces in front of my eyes. They told
me: We won't kill you. But the babies have to die in front of your eyes.''

72 year old Huseyin Ibrahimoglu:

- ''Our Turkish village in Khojalu Town was blown up in two hours.
  While killing children and babies mercilessly they said: You are
  Turks, you must die.''

28 year old Gulsum Huseyin:

- ''They bayonetted my 3 year old daughter in her stomach in front of
    my eyes.''

Are these stories lies? Have the eye-witnesses been day-dreaming?
Were these stories forged by Turkish journalists in the region?

The nonsense of such a claim is clear from the writings of British
Journalists, too. Two days before we had quoted from a Sunday Times
article. They[British] reported the events in Karabag even before
Turkish journalists. What is more here are the pictures. Pictures
of people who were bayonetted, whose eyes were gouged, ears cut off.

Even the Armenian Radio couldn't claim these "lies." They are saying
"exaggeration." That means ''somethings'' have happened but the
situation is not as bad as reported. Perhaps that village of Khojalu
town was destroyed in 4 hours, instead of 2... Or Gulsum Huseyin's
3 year old daughter was bayonetted in her chest instead of stomach...

The massacre is clearly seen with all its dimensions. The effects of
this massacre on Karabag and environs cannot be reduced by any word.

Some of the western press', led by some French Newspapers, ability
to ''close their eyes'' is nothing but complicity in this massacre.

Yesterday we gave samples from Le Figaro. Until yesterday's print
no news about the real events in Karabag were printed. So were the
French TV channels.. The subject they considered related to Karabag
was ''The necessity of protecting Armenians against Azeri attacks.''

The age we are living in is termed a human rights age. There are lots
of organizations such as United Nations and CSCE(Conference on Security
and Cooperation in Europe), and rules, all designed to fight against human
rights violations. International reactions must be made with international
cooperation. With support of everybody and every organization claiming
to be civilized.

Could there be a more serious human rights violation than that of the
right to live -and with such levels of barbarity and cruelty-? Where
is the cooperation? Where are the reactions? And the intellectuals,
journalists, writers, TV stations of certain western countries such
as France who are fast to claim leadership of "human rights?"
Where are you?

Serdar Argic

                     'This war quickly developed into one of extermination. 
                      We closed the roads and mountain passes that might 
                      serve as ways of escape for the Tartars [Turks] and 
                      then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
                                                       (Ohanus Appressian)

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