From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.history
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Subject: X-Soviet Armenian president's crimes must be addressed.
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 17:40:42 EDT
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <1992Oct6.005835.13398@ntmtv> nahabed@ntmtv.UUCP (Roupen Nahabedian) writes:

>with our fourth neighbor, Azerbaijan.  Armenia, which has no territorial claims
>against Azerbaijan, has insisted, at the same time, that the people of
>Nagorno Karabagh cannot be reduced to an ethnic minority, that they cannot
>be denied the right of self-determination, and that this population cannot
>be sacrificed using the principle of territorial integrity as a cover.

Oman. Did you ever read newspaper at all? 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 terrorists are holding up the trains, firing at the vehicles
and disrupting contact between Nakhicevan and Azerbaijan. 

As in the past in Turkiye, and today in Azerbaijan, for utopic and idiotic 
causes the Armenians brought havoc to their neighbors. A short-sighted and 
misplaced nationalistic fervor with a wrong agenda and anachronistic methods
the Armenians continue to become pernicious for the region. As usual, they 
will be treated accordingly by their neighbors. 

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. 

The article below is taken from The Sunday Times, 1 March  1992, a
British Weekly, written by Thomas Goltz, from Agdam, Azerbaijan.

    ARMENIAN SOLDIERS MASSACRE HUNDREDS OF FLEEING FAMILIES.

    The spiralling  violence gripping the  outer republics of  the former
Soviet Union gained new impetus  yesterday with cold-blooded slaughter of
hundreds of women and children in war-racked Nagorno-Karabakh.
    Survivors  reported that  Armenian soldiers  shot and  bayoneted more
than 450  Azeris, many of  them women and  children, who were  fleeing an
attack  on their  town. Hundreds,  possibly thousands,  were missing  and
feared dead.
    The attackers  killed most of  the soldiers and  volunteers defending
the women  and children.  They then  turned their  guns on  the terrified
refugees. The few  survivors later described what  happened:" That's when
the real  slaughter began," said  Azer Hajiev,  one of three  soldiers to
survive. " The  Armenians just shot and  shot. And then they  came in and
started carving up people with their bayonets and knives."
    " They were shooting, shooting, shooting", echoed Rasia Aslanova, who
arrived in Agdam with other women and children who made their way through
Armenian lines. She said her husband, Kayun, and a son-in-law were killed
in front of her. Her daughter was still missing.
    One boy who arrived in Agdam had an ear sliced off .

    The survivors  said 2000  others, some of  whom had  fled separately,
were still missing in the gruelling terrain; many could perish from their
wounds or the cold.
    By late  yesterday, 479 deaths had  been registered at the  morgue in
Agdam's morgue,  and 29 bodies  had been buried  in the cemetery.  Of the
seven corpses  I saw awaiting  burial, two  were children and  three were
women, one shot through the chest at point blank range.
    Agdam hospital was  a scene of carnage and terror.  Doctors said they
had 140 patients who escaped slaughter, most with bullet injuries or deep
stab wounds.
    Nor were they safe in Agdam. On friday night rockets fell on the city
which  has a  population  of 150,000,  destroying  several buildings  and
killing one person.

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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