Friday, December 11 2020 12:26

ArmInfo.Armenian Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan criticized the statements of the leaders of Azerbaijan and Turkey at the military parade in Baku, where claims  were expressed on the territory of the Republic of Armenia.

 Thus, the statement of the Ombudsman of Armenia, in particular, says: "On  December 10, during a military event in the capital of Azerbaijan,  the President of this country stated that Zangezur, Lake Sevan and  Yerevan [the Republic of Armenia] are the historical lands of  Azerbaijan. After that, the President of Turkey praised the  organizers and perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman  Empire, as well as the massacre of Armenians in Baku in September  1918.

In addition, the speeches of the presidents of both Azerbaijan and  Turkey were full of threats to the life and health of the entire  population of Armenia, insults and expressions inciting hatred  against the entire Armenian people. An analysis carried out by the  Office of the Human Rights Defender of Armenia confirms that today's  speeches by the presidents of Azerbaijan and Turkey contained the  same accents and words of hatred and enmity that the Azerbaijani  military used during this war to torture, brutal killings or inhuman  treatment with exceptional cynicism against Armenian servicemen and  civilians ".

Tatoyan stressed that it was precisely such statements that over the  years have created in the Azerbaijani institutional system of  propaganda of hatred and enmity on the basis of ethnicity towards  Armenians, open encouragement of impunity and support at a high state  level.  The Armenian Ombudsman stated that the war crimes and crimes  against humanity committed by the Azerbaijani armed forces in  September-November 2020, with their degree of cruelty, do not even  fit into the human imagination.  "These are actions of such cruelty  that even require scientific research in order to finally understand  the degree of atrocities that a person is capable of. In his speech,  inciting hatred towards Armenians and threatening the entire Armenian  people, the President of Turkey noted that today is the day of  glorification of the souls of Ahmed Cevad. Bey, Nuri Pasha, Enver  Pasha, members of the Islamic Army of the Caucasus It is an  established fact that these people are Young Turks who organized and  committed the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire,  accompanied by murder, mutilation, torture and rape.

Among them, in particular, Enver Pasha, as the Minister of War of the  Ottoman Empire (1913-1918), during the years of the Armenian Genocide  was one of the main organizers of atrocities, and Major General Jevad  Bey, during the First World War, being the commandant of the city  Constantinople (now Istanbul) and a member of the Turkish state  special, ideological organization of pan-Turkism "Teshkilat-i  Makhsus", directly organized and carried out acts of genocide.  Moreover, these people, in particular Nuri Pasha, brother of Enver  Pasha, in the ranks of the Caucasian Islamic Army, participated in  the massacres of Armenians in Baku in September 1918, which were  accompanied by torture and rape. The praise of these people by the  Turkish President, especially such an action during a public speech  at a military parade, is a clear genocidal intent. Even more  incitement to hatred is the obvious goal of this speech.

Added to this are the two presidents' obvious false claims that the  Armenians carried out the destruction of Azerbaijani or Turkish  religious objects or values. These statements are a clear  terrorization, an obvious threat to the life and health of the entire  people of Armenia, the entire civilian population, which are  absolutely prohibited by international law. The above-mentioned  speeches also confirm the Azerbaijani policy of ethnic cleansing and  genocide by terrorist methods in Artsakh during this war, "Tatoyan  said.  In conclusion, the Human Rights Defender of Armenia called on  the international community to take decisive preventive measures on  the above-mentioned, absolutely condemnable, phenomena that violate  the basic principles of international law and undermine the entire  international system of human rights and humanitarian protection.