Dear compatriots!\u200e<\/p>\n
Today Azerbaijan is living through the 8th year of its independence. One of the most distinguished \u200eresults achieved in the period of independence is obtaining of possibility to create the objective \u200epicture of the period and events that were hidden<\/p>\n
, falsified and misrepresented in the course of \u200emany years. One of these events is day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis the anniversary of which is \u200ebeing celebrated today and which has received its political and legal appraisal.\u200e<\/p>\n
Celebrating annually the 31 March – day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis, we return repeatedly to our \u200ehistorical past and commemorate with a heavy heart the implicit actions taken against our people.\u200e<\/p>\n
Our people faced several severe tragedies in XIX-XX centuries. Armenians, these cruel and guileful \u200eexecutors of imperial politics of big countries have repeatedly committed ethnic purges and \u200egenocide against Azerbaijanis, inflicting hardships, national tragedy and misfortunes to our people. \u200eHundreds of thousands of civilian Azerbaijanis were annihilated because of their ethnic affiliation, \u200edriven out of their native lands, ancient settlements of Azerbaijan were destroyed.\u200e<\/p>\n
The politics of genocide, carried out by Armenian nationalists due to the imperial politics of tsarist \u200eRussia at the launch of the century and Soviet regime in 40-50s, strengthened even more starting \u200efrom the mid-80s under the veil of “perestroika” policy and brought new tragedies to the people of \u200eAzerbaijan. Unfortunately, neither the international community, nor the leadership of the Republic \u200eof Azerbaijan gave appropriate appraisal to these bloody actions in due time, consequently creating \u200efavorable conditions for successful activity of nationalist-separatists forces.\u200e<\/p>\n
In consequence, hundred thousands of Azerbaijanis were annihilated and driven out of their \u200ehistorical lands because of their ethnic affiliation on the first stage of the Nagorno-Karabakh \u200econflict kindled since 1988; atrocious crimes were committed against the people that protested such \u200einjustice in Baku and other parts of Azerbaijan in January 1990; bloody Khojaly genocide was \u200ecommitted in 1992. \u200e<\/p>\n
As a result of the adventurous ethnic purge movement of the Armenian aggressors and ideologists \u200eof “Great Armenia”, more than one million of our compatriots were driven out of their native lands \u200eand were subject to inhuman sufferings. Only in the 20th century, more than 2 millions of \u200eAzerbaijanis fell victims of the atrocious genocide committed in either form by our enemies. \u200eHowever in spite of these tragedies, hardships and injustice, our people survived, protected its \u200eindependence and demonstrated strong will. \u200e<\/p>\n
Today, we take a look at our history once again. We are proud of our successes and regret for our \u200elosses. Now, all conditions have emerged for Azerbaijan to live as an independent state, spread its \u200ejust voice in the world and strive for eliminating injustice occurred in the past. \u200e<\/p>\n
Among our main tasks are: to form in the present and future generations a strong memory about the \u200egenocide committed against our people in the last century; to achieve a political and legal \u200eassessment of those tragedies in the whole world; to make efforts to liquidate their consequences \u200eand prevent such acts in future. For that purpose we should only demonstrate strong and steadfast \u200enational unity. We can prevent any treachery and aggression against our people only with steadfast \u200estruggle and will on the way to independent Azerbaijan state, which is the highest goal for all of us.\u200e<\/p>\n
I call upon you to unite and struggle steadfastly on the way of defending the national interests and \u200erights of our people.\u200e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear compatriots!\u200e Today Azerbaijan is living through the 8th year of its independence. One of the most distinguished \u200eresults achieved in the period of independence is obtaining of possibility to create the objective \u200epicture of the period and events that were hidden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-genocides-of-azerbaijanis"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}