ArmInfo. THE SAME SEPTEMBER week that a mass grave was discovered in Izium, Ukraine, Azerbaijan launched brutal attacks on the sovereign territory of Armenia, killing hundreds.
The first event was on the front page of The New York Times, in The Washington Post, and on CNN, and denounced by world leaders and international organizations. The latter was a one-day story that was swiftly buried. This is stated in an article by leader of the American rock band System of A Down, Serj Tankian, published in Rolling Stone magazine.
In particular, he emphasized that: "I was not surprised. Tired of the world's mayhem, we pick and choose which outrages actually cause us outrage. Vladimir Putin's Russia is seen as a rogue power - while the kleptocratic dictatorship of Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev flies under the radar. It's understandable in a way, since the corruption is clear but the underlying issues are complex. So let me try to simplify. Since it helps any story to feature a cartoonishly evil antagonist, I'm glad to report it all began with Joseph Stalin. On July 4, 1921, the Caucasus bureau of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party voted to integrate the mountainous Karabagh region - today, much of Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia, 95 percent of whose population was ethnically Armenian - into Armenia. The logical idea was to create ethnically cohesive republics in the Soviet Union. But the Soviet leader had more clever plans: He wanted the republics to not make sense, to reduce their chances of ever succeeding as viable countries. So the next day, he intervened to integrate Karabagh into Soviet Azerbaijan, as part of an autonomous province," Tankian emphasized.
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