Davit Ishkhanyan warns Baku trial targets Armenian statehood
David Ishkhanyan has appealed to the Human Rights Defender of Armenia from a Baku prison, requesting assistance in obtaining and providing his family with the full texts of the indictment and the verdict.
“Greetings to everyone.
We learned from the press that Ruben Vardanyan appealed to the Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia, asking her to visit him. I do not know whether the respected Defender will have the sense of responsibility and determination to visit us as well. If that happens, she will gain more detailed information and see firsthand how the entire investigation was conducted and the extent of the serious and blatant violations that marked the entire process. Both the investigation and the trial were carried out with blatant violations of human rights, international law, international norms, and even the procedural requirements of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
At the end of the trial, during my final statement, I was unable to deliver my remarks in full. I was simply not allowed to deliver at least 30% to 40% of my final statement. But I managed to express what I now want to repeat to my people, and I would like to quote a small part of it:
This trial is not against 15 individuals. This trial is against the Armenian people and Armenian statehood, with clear objectives and a long-term strategy. I began to suspect this during the investigation, and the trial itself turned that suspicion into conviction. Time will prove the truth of my words and thoughts.
As for Azerbaijan’s Human Rights Defender, yesterday Azerbaijan’s Human Rights Ombudsperson, Sabina Aliyeva, visited us, and we were able to relay certain information to her. Since March 12, I had prepared an appeal letter to hand over to her, but for the past one or two months, for various reasons, I was unable either to meet with her or to deliver it. Yesterday I finally handed over my appeal letter, and in it I had one clear request: that she help ensure the full text of our verdict, in both Azerbaijani and Armenian, is delivered to my family and relatives.
The Human Rights Defender said she would ensure the Azerbaijani version is delivered to my family and that she would try to facilitate the matter.
As for the Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia, I now want to address her verbally and ask that she intervene and obtain, from the relevant Azerbaijani bodies, perhaps also through her counterpart, the full Armenian and Azerbaijani texts of our indictments and the full text of our verdict, and provide them to my family and relatives.
In these difficult times, I wish our people strength of spirit, strength of will, and unity. And I must say: Stay strong.”
It is a mark of Pashinyan’s treachery that Davit Ishkanyan is being ignored.
Pashinyan wants to erase the memory of Artsakh.
Naivety and wooly mindedness will not save Armenia from the Turks.
The leaders and people of Artsakh to Armenia and Armenians are now the Palestinians to the people of the Arab world. Like the Palestinians in other nations who are constantly stirring up trouble, pushing the release Artsakh’s leaders and allowing them to re-enter Armenia are going to create BIG HEADACHES to the Armenian nation. Artsakh is dead. Let it go. Unless Armenia becomes a nuclear superpower overnight with thousands of drones and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, then everyone screaming about Artsakh, the right to return, and the rest, are all DREAMING!
Davit Ishkhanyan and the other Artsakh leaders and politicians who are rotting in Azerbaijani prisons as hostages (they are not “prisoners” or “POWs” in the legal sense), happen to be the archtraitor Pashinyan’s enemies and potential rivals, who criticised him for his treachery, for his betrayal, and for his selling out of Artsakh. No wonder why Pashinyan won’t lift his finger for them. He hopes that they die one by one in Azerbaijani prisons, and in this way remove his potential rivals.
Normally, it would have been the duty of the Armenian government to relentlessly campaign and clamor for their release, and also lobby other countries to pressure Azerbaijan to release them. Tragically, since Armenia is under the rule of the archtraitor and appeaser Pashinyan, it falls to Armenian Diaspora lobby groups and organizations, who relentlessly campaign hard for their release, just like they relentlessly worked hard to advance Armenian national interests on their own, when there was no independent Armenia at that time to support them. It has practically reverted to that situation under the quisling and satrap Pashinyan.
I just read: Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated that Armenia’s current foreign policy course would eventually lead to irreversible alignment with Brussels’ anti-Russian agenda. She warned that such a development could bring political and economic consequences for Armenia.
my question:
what would Pashinian do if Russia expells Armenians from Russia, they send over 4 billion dollars every year to Armenia?
David Ishkanyan and those detained with him were staunchly pro Russia thinking it’s peacekeepers would protect them and what remained of Arktash yet they would do nothing to protect them from arrest and Pashinyan increasingly anti Russia able to act freely..