From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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Subject: Some had their head cut off, and many had been burned, "vizzy".
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 16:38:38 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <1992Nov15.192016.1673@physics.ucla.edu> viznyuk@physics.ucla.edu (Sergei Viznyuk) writes:

> Just a lii-i-ttle remark. First, it was not _Russian_ Interior
>Ministry Forces which were engaged (on whatever side) in Karabakh mess,
>but _Soviet_. Second, the "Helsinki Watch" has discredited itself

So our brazen faced "vizzy the forger" is back. You remembered the first 
time it happened? The Karabag region of Azerbaijian was populated by 
Turkish-speaking Azeris until the Azeri population was devastated by 
invading Armenians during World War I. Armenian forces massacred Turkish 
men, women, and children of the towns and villages which lay in their 
path. Armenians then settled the areas, and this became to constitute 
the majority. The Armenians are not seeking a 'reunification' with 
x-Soviet Armenia by any means. That is not the stated intent or the 
final goal of their bloody Dashnak ideals. They have claimed that if 
Greater Armenia (Hayatistan) is not created, that Azerbaijan will turn 
into another Lebanon. To this end, they have stockpiled ammunition, 
weapons and trained soldiers to murder defenseless Azeris. The crux of 
the Azerbaijani frustration is not reported upon, but concealed behind 
homilies such as Shiite and natural enmity of the Turks against the 
Armenians. There are presently, 250,000 refugees from Armenia in Azerbaijan. 
The international community has never asked their fate. There are over 
50,000 Meshketian Turks from Uzbekistan in Azerbaijan that the Azeris are 
also helping. 

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. 

Report taken from The New York Times, Tuesday, March 3, 1992

                    MASSACRE BY ARMENIANS BEING REPORTED

     Agdam,Azerbaijan,March 2 (Reuters) - Fresh evidence emerged today 
of a massacre of civilians by Armenian militants in Nagorno-Karabakh, 
a predominantly Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan.
     The Azerbaijani press agency Azer-inform reported renewed Armenian
missile fire on the Azerbaijani-populated town of Suscha on Sunday night.
It said several people have been wounded in another attack, on the settlement
Venjali, early today.
     The republic of Armenia reiterated denials that its militants had killed
1,000 people in the Azerbaijani populated town of Khojaly last week and 
massacred men, women and children fleeing the carnage across snow-covered
mountain passes.
     But dozen of bodies scattered over the area lent credence to Azerbaijani
reports of a massacre.

                         Scalping Reported
     Azerbaijani officials and journalists who flew briefly to the region
by helicopter brought back three dead children with the back of their
heads blown off. They said shooting by Armenians has prevented them 
from retrieving more bodies.
     "Women and children have been scalped," said Assad Faradshev, an aide
to Nagorno-Karabakh's Azerbaijani Governor. "When we began to pick up bodies,
they began firing at us."
     The Azerbaijani militia chief in Agdam, Rashid Mamedov, said: "The bodies
are lying there like flocks of sheep. Even the fascists did nothing like this."
                         
                         Truckloads of Bodies
     Near Agdam on the outskirts of Nagorno-Karabakh, a Reuters photographer,
Frederique Lengaigne, said she had seen two trucks filled with Azerbaijani
bodies.
     "In the first one I counted 35, and it looked as though there were as
many in the second," she said. "Some had their head cut off, and many had
been burned. They were all men, and a few had been wearing khaki uniforms.

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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