From: han@anadolu.michigan.com (hasan.b.mutlu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.history
Subject: 'Minass-ian Baci' Gets It Straight: The Armenian Genocide Of Azeris.
Date: 17 Aug 92 01:42:32 GMT





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hhrant@ocf.berkeley.edu (Helgge Minassian)

>   Please, people, get it straight:
>     1.  Armenians were never supposed to make any advances
>     in Azerbaijan.  They did so only because Azerbaijan

Do you have a terminal cold?

           M A S S A C R E  I N  K H O J A L Y

Hostilities between  Armenia and Azerbaijan boil  over after some
200 civilians are slaughtered in a disputed enclave

While the details are argued, this much is  plain: something grim
and unconscionable  happened in  the Azerbaijani town  of Khojaly
two weeks ago.  So far, some 200 dead Azerbaijanis,  many of them
mutilated, have  been transported out  of the town  tucked inside
the Armenian-dominated enclave of  Nagorno-Karabakh for burial in
neighboring  Azerbaijan.  The  total   number  of  deaths  -  the
Azerbaijanis claim 1,324 civilians have been slaughtered, most of
them women and children - is unknown. But the explanation offered
by the  attacking Armenians,  who insist  that no  innocents were
deliberately killed, is hardly convincing.

The assault represents an  alarming escalation in the hostilities
that are rapidly pushing  Christian Armenia and Muslim Azerbaijan
toward all-out  war. With  increasing belligerence over  the past
four  years, the  two  republics have  pressed their  territorial
claims to Nagorno-Karabakh, a  4,400-sq.-km piece of turf located
within Azerbaijan's boundaries but home mainly Armenians.

Videotapes  circulated  by  the Azerbaijanis  include  images  of
defaced civilians, some of them scalped, others shot in the head.
Armenians claim the footage is fake. They insist that they left a
corridor open for civilians to flee Khojaly, but that Azerbaijani
soldiers led  a group 200 civilians  into harm's way. The  use of
surface-to-air missiles, artillery rockets  and armor proves that
both sides  are equipped with state-of-the-art  weapons that were
bequeathed  by,  sold by  or  stolen  from disintegrating  Soviet
units.

Although  Nagorno-Karabakh  is  small, the  implications  of  the
violence  are large.  Officials from  other republics  regard the
outcome  as a  test for  the  future prospects  of the  patchwork
Commonwealth   of  Independent   States.  Nursultan   Nazarbayev,
President  of Kazakhstan,  warns  that the  burgeoning clash  may
"create  a precedent  for uncontrolled  development of  conflicts
within  the C.I.S."  Late  last week  Azerbaijani President  Ayaz
Muttalibov resigned under heated criticism that he had mishandled
the  Khojaly crisis.  But the  dispute with  Armenia is  far from
settled.

By Jill SMOLOWE

-Reported by Yuri ZARAKHOVICH/Moscow

SOURCE: TIME March 16, 1992

Hasan B-) Mutlu

                     'Kill Turks and Kurds wherever you find them 
                      and in whatever circumstances you find them. 
                      Turkish children also should be killed as 
                      they form a danger to the Armenian nation.' 
                                     (Hamparsum Boyadjian - 1914)