YEREVAN—Azerbaijan continues to insist that the mass exodus of over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh in late 2023 was voluntary, despite widespread evidence and international concern pointing to forced displacement.
In an interview with Berliner Zeitung, Hikmet Hajiyev, assistant to the president of Azerbaijan and foreign policy adviser, reiterated Baku’s position: “It was their own decision,” he said, referring to the Armenian population that fled following Azerbaijan’s mili
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Turks do not know the meaning of the word “truth”.
Question: How do you know when Aliyev and Hajiyev are lying?
Answer: When their lips are moving.
The world is catching on to the fact that the regime in Azerbaijan is full of pathological liars.
The title of Hikmet Hajiyev, assistant to the president of Azerbaijan and foreign policy adviser, should tell you all you need to know about this scoundrel. He is basically an advisor to a dictator who considers all Armenians, regardless of where they are born and raised, as number one and arch-enemies of the 107-year old artificial republic of Azerbaijan, a gas station disguised as a country. You should have seen the look on his face when after the end of the 2020 joint Turkish-Azerbaijani invasion of Armenian liberated territories when a foreign reporter showed him video clip of a father and son executed in cold-blood in Hadrut when they had already disarmed and were in their full custody. He was also shown the before and after pictures of an Armenian chapel when it was demolished and wiped off the map as if it never existed. He was tongue-tied and looked like a deer caught in headlights. When these people talk about Armenians, rest-assured they are knowingly and deliberately lying because, given the fact that they have established themselves on our ancestral lands, their existence and legitimacy is preconditioned on denigrating, dehumanizing, marginalizing and even eliminating us off the map. We also shattered many of those Turkish myths drilled into their heads since childhood when we handed them their devastating and utmost humiliating defeat in their short and artificial history with our 1994 victory they will not forget in a thousand years!
How can one make peace with these people? This is not a rhetorical question. The fool Pashinyan can delude himself as much as he wants. But really? How on earth can peace be possible with such a genocidal regime, which regards Armenians as the eternal arch-enemy, dehumanizes them, and teaches to hate Armenians from kindergarden onwards and in their 100% state-controlled media?
It is shameful that the world watched as another genocide attempt (driven by Turks)
PS: Politics and greed (on both sides) is changing humans and there writes (look at what’s happenin to Palestine
Apart from the ethnic cleansing of all Armenians from Artsakh, Azerbaijan continues with its destruction of Armenian heritage in Artsakh. It just destroyed a statue of Ivan Aivazovsky, simply because he was Armenian. And this documented state-sanctioned vandalism by Azerbaijan, is just the tip of the iceberg, because many more remain undocumented and shrouded in secrecy, because Artsakh is off-limits to foreigners and even to most Azerbaijani civilians. Only satellite photos scratch the surface of this cultural Armenian Genocide, and the scope is surely much worse, because so many acts of vandalism remain secret. The Armenian (Pashinyan) government’s reaction to this cultural Armenian Genocide, remains shamefully muted. And there are too many idiots in Armenia, whether it is the government or its supporters, who entertain the idea that peace is possible with that genocidal fascist dictatorship called Azerbaijan, when its genocidal mentality has not changed a bit since 1915, just like Turkey’s, which just pretends to play the “good cop” to Azerbaijan’s “bad cop”.
Azerbaijan clearly didn’t have an utmost and humiliating defeat in 1994 that they won’t forget in a thousand years if so they would be good little puppy like Germany and Japan are with the USA. Certainly wouldn’t have been able to successfully reverse their losses a generation later. Besides in a thousand years who knows what the world will be then? Thus whilst it was clearly a defeat exaggerated hyperbole decieves and deludes …
Charles
I don’t know if you are being too native about Azerbaijanis or you somehow missed all that the rest of us witnessed as to what actually took place over the years. I know them up-close like you can never know them. I know their true character and I know how they think, act and react. They are like an open book to me. If you think I’m just saying things like I have some kind of hangup or even an “inferiority complex” for saying those things or displaying a knee-jerk reaction then you are very much mistaken. We were responsible for putting Azerbaijan on the map for the whole world to see with our victory that drew world’s attention to the region. This terrorist artificial petrostate was practically unknown to the world before their devastating and humiliating defeat. They have been crying and begging for a quarter century. They won’t forget our 1994 victory over them for a thousand years because we gave them a cemetery with hundred thousand dead Azerbaijani soldiers buried in there up-to-date. Every time they visit that cemetery they will remember how we shattered all those empty Turkish myths drilled into their heads since childhood that they belong to a “noble” race and are “invincible” like Germans thought they were. You have a birds-eye view of them but I see things you don’t and can’t because, like I said, you don’t know them like I do. Deep down in their psyche they had lost their manhood to us and had to recover and even then they could not and had to hire NATO member Turkey’s terrorist defense ministry and fatherless Syrian ISIS paid-mercenaries to try to recover it for them.
These people have never been able to fight us on their own. When they did they lost. Remember what Turkey’s genocide denier and terrorist-in-chief Er-dog-an said referring to Israel’s attack on Gaza and the mass killings of the Palestinians and I quote “We can enter Gaza just like we entered Libya and Karabakh” taking credit for what took place humiliating Aliyev!
Few conflicts are single players no man is an island. The affairs in Ukraine and Israel now are cases in point but that’s the way of the world. Bit like Charles de Gaulle in Paris in 1944 “by the France and for the France. ” Granted Armenia fought the good fight and Azerbaijan which on the face of it had the advantage lost but its all context and degrees . Alas international protocols and lack of support and confidence by Armenia and the destructive tie in with Russia meant a generation later it was lost.
As for Erdogan he is just engaging in hyperbole for the Muslim mob regarding Gaza whist keeping contract in serving as conduit for Azeri oil and gas for Israel which helps support their war machine.