Anti-Armenian policy, crimes and pogroms by Azerbaijan were throughout the 20th century

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/baku_13-1-2020/ More detailed in Armenian (հայերեն) – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/baku_13-1-2020_hy/ (Text was provided by the Consulate General of the Republic of Armenia in Sankt Petersburg, Russia) None of the perpetrators and organizers of three Armenian pogroms in Baku in early and late 20th century was duly punished. Contemporary Azerbaijan is notorious for flourishing Armenophobia, distorting history of Baku, thus erasing the memory of the Armenian creative role and constructive contribution in the development of Baku.

President Armen Sarkissian’s message on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Armenian pogroms in Baku

հայերեն – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/pres_13-1-2020_hy/ на русском – Source – web site president.am President Armen Sarkissian’s message on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Armenian pogroms in Baku Dear Compatriots, Today, we pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the pogroms in Baku. Thirty years ago, in January of 1990, purges of the Armenians were ordered in Baku, claiming the lives of hundreds of Armenians; many were injured, subjected to tortures, were expelled, some were lost without a trace. After the pogroms, Baku, which had had the Armenian population of 250,000, was totally purged of Armenians.

Statement on the Day of Remembrance of the victims of the crime of Genocide committed by Azerbaijan against the Armenian people (January 13, 1990)

in Russian (на русском) – https://aga-tribunal.info/12-1-2020/ Statement on the Day of remembrance of the victims of the crime of genocide committed by Azerbaijan against the Armenian people (January 13)   The beginning of each year is marked by two tragic dates – the period of the establishment of Soviet power in Transcaucasia and its collapse: – January 9-12 – the days of memory of the Shamkhor massacre that terrified even Stalin himself.  Troops were returning to Russia from the Caucasian front were they fought against Turkey. Thousands of Russians (mostly Cossacks) were brutally killed in January 1918 by those who seized […]

Address to the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia

հայերեն – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/na_9-12-2019_hy/ на русском – https://aga-tribunal.info/na_9-12-2019/ On December 9, 2019, the Tekeyan Cultural Center in Yerevan hosted the conference “Unrecognized genocides of the 20th century”. The participants adopted the Address to the National Assembly of Armenia and handed it over in the prescribed manner. The following is a translation into English by “Miaban”.

Crimes of the Republic of Azerbaijan against the Armenian people and humanity

на русском – https://aga-tribunal.info/crimes/ հայերեն – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/crimes_hy/ Based on materials from the publication of the National Assembly (Parliament) of the Republic of Western Armenia. The crimes committed by the successive governments of the Republic of Azerbaijan against the Armenian people, against humanity and civilization, over the past 100 years, are a copy of the handwriting and program of the successive governments of the Republic of Turkey. We cannot cover a longer time interval, since an artificial state called Azerbaijan was created in 1918.

Osip Mandelstam about Shushi

The famous Russian poet Osip Mandelstam was in Shushi 11 years after massacres in Shushi, in 1931, saw a horrible picture of “forty thousand lifeless windows which are visible there from all sides” and wrote a poem called “The phaeton driver” dedicated to this tragedy. A little-known “early late” Osip Mandelshtam poem (1931) that marks his return to poetry after more than half a decade of writing prose and prose only. Composed on their return to Moscow, Nadezhda Mandelstam writes that it depicts their actual journey out of Armenia, where he’d began to write poetry again in 1930. Source of translation – here.

Professor Eduard Markaryan on the Armenian Genocide in Azerbaijan

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/markaryan_2/ Below are quotes from the book of the outstanding world-famous scientist Eduard Sarkisovich Markaryan (1929-2011) “Global Aspects of the Armenian Genocide. Experience of Sociocultural Analysis”, 2005. Translation is made by “AGA-Tribunal.info”.

Statement by the spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia on the centennial of pogroms of Armenians in Agulis

in Russian հայերեն December 24, 2019 Source: MFA of Armenia Today we commemorate the centennial of massacres of Armenians in Agulis. A century ago, on the night of December 24 to 25, 1919, the peaceful Armenian population of Agulis was massacred, while this ancient Armenian settlement of Nakhichevan was left in ruins.

An Open Letter 27.7.1990 on Anti-Armenian Pogroms in the Soviet Union

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/open_27-7-1990/ Source – New York Times    Screenshot An Open Letter to the world community is a letter signed by 133 scholars and public figures with an appeal to the world community in connection with the anti-Armenian pogroms and blockade carried out in the Azerbaijan SSR. The letter was published in the New York Times on July 27, 1990.

“Los Angeles Times” on the barbaric crime of cultural genocide by Azerbaijan

Below is the article By Catherine Womack from “Los Angeles Times”, Nov 7, 2019.   For centuries the sacred khachkars of Djulfa stood tall along the banks of the River Aras — hulking and ornately carved 16th-century headstones, an army 10,000 strong, steadfastly guarding the world’s largest medieval Armenian cemetery. Earthquakes, war and vandalism diminished their ranks, but by the middle of the 20th century, thousands of khachkars still remained. Today, however, not a single statuesque sandstone sculpture stands at Djulfa, in the remote Nakhichevan region of Azerbaijan. Despite a 2000 UNESCO order demanding their protection, evidence published in the art journal Hyperallergic this year indicated that the monuments […]

About genocidal policy and crimes of Azerbaijan in the Statement addressed to UN

(in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/wa_7-8-2019_/) On August 7, 2019, the Republic of Western Armenia sent a large and unprecedented Statement to the UN “On the demarcation of the border between the state of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan”. In particular, it contained information on the genocidal crimes by Azerbaijan against the Armenian people. Below are some fragments from the Appeal.

Continuation of the “Proclamation of 132” of July 27, 1990 on the protection of civilization from savage barbarity

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/appeal-27-7-2020/ Open Appeal to the world public Continuation of the “Proclamation of 132” of July 27, 1990 on the protection of civilization from savage barbarity On July 27, 1990, 132 prominent scientists and public figures addressed an Open letter to the world public regarding the deliberate atrocities committed by the authorities of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Rrepublic (Az. SSR) against the Armenian population. The authors of the Letter compared these egregious crimes to the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. However, the 30 years that have passed since the Letter have repeatedly proved that Azerbaijan actually continues the […]

Round table “Operation “Ring”. Military terrorism as an instrument of genocidal politics”

(same in Russian) On May 31, 2019 at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) was held the Round table “Operation “Ring”. Military terrorism as an instrument of genocidal policy” dedicated to the 28th anniversary of this atrocity in 1991.

Statement by the Foreign Ministry of Armenia on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of Maragha massacre

in Armenian – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/mfa_10-4-2019_hy/ in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/mfa_10-4-2019/ April 10, 2019 Web site of MFA of Armenia Today marks the 27th anniversary of the crime committed by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in Maragha village of Artsakh. During the several hours of control over the village the Azerbaijani army turned it into a slaughterhouse by subjecting to torture in the most cruel way and killing more than 50 civilians, as well as taking as many captive, mostly women, elderly, children and the disabled. Two weeks later, the Azerbaijani army once again established control over the village, this time completely destroying it. To date, […]

To the 27th anniversary of the genocidal crimes by Azerbaijan in the village of Maraga

(in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/ks_7-4-2019/) In connection with the anniversary of the massacre of the population of the Karabakh village of Maraga, carried out by the armed formations of the Azerbaijan Republic on April 10, 1992, the Coordination Council of the Russian-Armenian Organizations (CC RAO) made a special statement. We offer the text of the statement in full:

Artak Beglaryan. The crimes of Azerbaijan are in full compliance with the legal formulation of the UN 1948 Convention on the Genocide

(in Armenian, in Russian) Source Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan issued a statement on the 31st anniversary of the massacres of Armenians organized by Azerbaijan in Sumgait in February 1988. The text of the statement is presented below:

Giulio Centemero. Sumgait massacre has happened as a murder of people as such

(հայերեն  https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/italy_6-3-2019_hy/ на русском  https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/italy_6-3-2019/) Source – Armenpress Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy, responsible for the Armenian-Italian inter-parliamentary relations, representative of the ruling Lega party, Giulio Centemero, has delivered remarks on the 1988 Armenian massacres in Sumgait Video of his speech on March 6, 2019 – here.

Letter from Coordinating Council of Russian-Armenian Organizations to UNESCO Director-General

(same in Russian https://aga-tribunal.info/unesco_7-3-2019/ հայերեն – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/unesco_7-3-2019_hy/ This Letter was published on the web sites: “Armenpress” information agency – in English. in Russian, in Armenian, in Arabic News.am – in English, in Russian, in Armenian) To: Mrs. Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General From: Coordinating Council of Russian-Armenian Organizations Dear Ms. Azoulay!

February 28, 2019 – Truth Movement continues

(in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/28-02-2019/) A rally commemorating the victims of atrocities from Azerbaijan was held on February 28, 2019 in the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Tsitsernakaberd in Yerevan. The event took place at the khachkars and was organized by a number of public organizations, including the organizing committee “In Defense of the Artsakh Republic”, the Assembly of Azerbaijani Armenians, the Congress of Armenian Refugees from Azerbaijan. The key organizer is the “Yerevan group on the legal recognition of the Armenian Genocide in Azerbaijan” of the “Hachmeruk” (Crossroad) public organization. “Yerevan Group” regularly covers materials on the topic and is a platform […]

Azerbaijan and greatest cultural genocide of 21st century

(in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/guardian_2-3-2019/) The Guardian on Armenian cross-stones Source in The Guardian – here. There is a photo of Armenian art researcher Argam Ayvazyan in 1981, next to a 14th-century khachkar in Nors, near his birthplace. Source of the article below – https://news.am/eng/news/499138.html   The 21st century’s most extensive campaign of cultural cleansing to date may not have happened in Syria, but in largely ignored part of the Transcaucasian plateau, The Guardian reported. According to a report published in the art journal Hyperallergic in February, the Azerbaijani government has, over the past 30 years, been engaging in a systematic erasure of the country’s historic […]