in English — https://aga-tribunal.info/en/ombudsman-4-2-2022-en/
2 февраля 2022 года Защитник прав человека (Омбудсмен) Армении Арман Татоян опубликовал на сайте, а 4 февраля представил на пресс-конференции, внеочередной экстренный доклад о новых проявлениях и опасностях санкционированной государством в Азербайджане армянофобской политики в послевоенный период.
AGA-Tribunal.info приводит информацию и на русском, поскольку редко когда какие доклады омбудсменов Армении и Арцаха, правозащитных организаций публикуются на русском и распространяются в России.
О пресс-конференции 4 февраля
Репортаж на русском и полная видеозапись (на армянском) — https://aga-tribunal.info/tatoyan-4-2-2022/
Полное название и текст внеочередного доклада
АЗЕРБАЙДЖАНСКАЯ ПОЛИТИКА НЕНАВИСТИ И ВРАЖДЕБНОСТИ К АРМЯНАМ КАК КОРЕННАЯ ПРИЧИНА НАРУШЕНИЙ ПРАВ ЧЕЛОВЕКА ПО ЭТИЧЕСКИМ ПРИЧИНАМ: ДОКАЗАТЕЛЬНО ОБОСНОВАННЫЙ АНАЛИЗ ПОСЛЕВОЕННЫХ СОБЫТИЙ
В докладе 59 страниц. Полный текст на английском — https://ombuds.am/images/files/3101f60c869b0f378dbc737b002e5054.pdf
Комментарий Армана Татояна
Арман Татоян опубликовал свой комментарий в Фейсбуке 6 февраля 2022 г. Перевод на русский от AGA-Tribunal.info.
«Власти Азербайджана разжигают религиозную вражду на государственном уровне, абсолютной лживо обвиняя нас в исламофобии.
Как, например, они могут объяснить знаменитый Указ основателя ислама Мухаммеда, который он издал в 626 г. н.э. после визита армянского патриарха Иерусалима Авраама и его 40 делегатов. Согласно этому Указу он распространил свою защиту на Святую Гробницу Христа, на армянские церкви и монастыри «в Иерусалиме, Дамаске и арабских областях», в том числе монастырь Св. Акопа в Иерусалиме, учебные заведения и имущество. Оригинал Указа сохранен.
Исторические факты свидетельствуют об уважении нашего народа, а также об уважении Армянской церкви к исламу и другим религиям, в т.ч. в самих исламских странах.
Со многими народами исламского мира армяне веками дружили.
Эта политика властей Азербайджана также разжигает неприязнь к армянам, проживающих в странах, где исповедуют ислам. Это разжигает вражду между народами.
В Арцахе, например, сохранились Верхняя и Внутренняя мечети в Шуши, были полностью отремонтированы Верхняя мечеть и здание медресе, школа, разбит парк. В Ереване есть действующая мечеть.
В отличие от такого отношения, азербайджанские вооруженные силы:
- разрушили и осквернили церкви Газанчецоц и Канач Жам в Шуши,
- разрушили церковь Зоравор Сурб Аствацацин в Мехакаване в Арцахе,
- осквернили церковь Св. Егише в Матагисе,
- уничтожили армянские хачкары в Шуши, Гадруте.
Армянская церковь Святого Григория Просветителя в Баку осквернена, превращена в архив библиотеки, с купола спущен крест, алтаря нет, надгробия, примыкавшие к церкви, разрушены.
В настоящее время в Азербайджане на государственном уровне делается всё, чтобы изменить принадлежность армянских церквей и монастырей.
Эта политика уже проявляется в новых формах пыток армянских пленных, связанных с пропагандируемым в Азербайджане отношению к их религии.
Поэтому надуманные азербайджанские обвинения и заявления абсолютно лживы, имеют политические мотивы и очень опасны для мира.
Все эти факты подробно изложены в опубликованном 2 февраля докладе Защитника прав человека Армении и представлены на данной пресс-конференции».
Содержание доклада
ВВЕДЕНИЕ ……….3
I. ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ПОЛИТИКА АЗЕРБАЙДЖАНА ОРГАНИЗОВАННОЙ НЕНАВИСТИ И ВРАЖДЫ К АРМЯНАМ …………6
II. НЕНАВИСТЬ, РАСПРОСТРАНЯЕМАЯ ПРЕЗИДЕНТОМ АЗЕРБАЙДЖАНА ……19
III. НЕНАВИСТЬ И ВРАЖДА К АРМЯНАМ КАК ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЙ
ИНСТРУМЕНТ И ЕГО ВЛИЯНИЕ В ОБЩЕСТВЕ ….…25
IV. ВОЗБУЖДЕНИЕ НЕНАВИСТИ К АРМЯНАМ ПО РЕЛИГИОЗНЫМ
ОСНОВАНИЯМ …..….35
V. ОСУЩЕСТВЛЯЕМАЯ АЗЕРБАЙДЖАНОМ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ПОЛИТИКА РАСИЗМА ПРИВЕЛА К ПРЕСТУПНЫМ ДЕЯНИЯМ ВОЕННОСЛУЖАЩИХ И ГРАЖДАНСКИХ ЛИЦ……49
VI. РАСПРОСТРАНЕНИЕ В МЕЖДУНАРОДНОЙ СФЕРЕ РАСОВОЙ НЕНАВИСТИ, ПРОВОДИМОЙ ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВОМ АЗЕРБАЙДЖАНА …….52
Введение в докладе
Страницы 3-5.
Monitoring and evidence-based analyses, fact-finding missions of Armenia’s Human Rights Defender’s Office have previously confirmed that the Azerbaijani policy of state-supported Armenophobia and enmity have become root causes of gross and massive human rights violations and ethnically motivated crimes by the Azerbaijani armed servicemen.
Yearly reports by the European Comission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) and recently, the decision of the International Court of Justice [1] (ICJ) are a further proof of the true reach of the government-administrated vilification of Armenians.
This policy is the true depiction of the current state of the struggle for peace. As long as there is no strong commitment (moreover, state-supported active policy of hatred) towards eradicating racism and rolling back the effects of a continued decades-long tradition of devilification of Armenians and the Armenian nation, solutions for peace will never be long-lasting.
The International Community needs to take immediate action towards counteracting state-perpetuated hatred amongst member states of the United Nations, especially amongst those with large diasporal
representations, so as prevent further violations and promote respect for human dignity.
Direct consequences of the mentioned policies are human rights violations (massive and gross). Vivid examples of consequences of these policies are atrocities, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Azerbaijani armed forces in September-November 2020, the 2016 April war and other attacks of Azerbaijani servicemen (including border guards) aimed at innocent Armenians.
The Human Rights Defender of Armenia documented numerous cases of willful killings and brutal torture of Armenian servicemen and civilians, acting with open faces and with no consideration of the responsibility and reprehensibility for the acts committed out even thinking about responsibility, being confident that they would only be applauded for their actions. There is also widespread information in mass media and social networks. In addition, there have been multiple reported cases of indiscriminate attacks of innocent Armenian civilians by Azerbaijani servicemen since the end of active battles of the latest Artsakh war on 10 November, 2020.
One of the creadible documents showing the existence of the state-sponsored hatred and Armenophobia is the 2020 joint evidence-based report of the Human Rights Defender of Armenia and the Human
Rights Ombudsman of Artsakh “On organized hate speech and animosity towards ethnic Armenians in Azerbaijan as root causes of ethnically-based torture and inhuman treatment by Azerbaijani armed forces” [2].
This report has documented application/existence of systemic Armenophobia by public authorities, including high-ranking officials and public figures (amongst others cultural and sports representatives) of Azerbaijan, as well as widespread hate speech amongst the general public.
It clearly proves the Azerbaijani policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide through terroristic methods in Artsakh.
The results of Azerbaijani state supported hatred against ethnic Armenians were also revealed during the outbreak of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on April 2016. Within his ad hoc reports, the Ombudsman of Artsakh in cooperation with the Human Rights Defender of Armenia presented Azerbaijani’s hatred policy towards people of Armenian ethnicity and its horrific consequences, including beheading, torture, and mutilation of combatants’ and civilians’ dead bodies, as well as indiscriminate shelling of civilian objects, and more [3].
Reports and objective evidence have shown that while committing the torture of Armenians, live beheadings, mutilating the bodies of the victims, cutting ears, and committing other atrocities, the servicemen of the Azerbaijani Armed forces use the same rhetoric and expressions as the political authorities of Azerbaijan, starting from the President.
The continuous monitoring of Armenia’s Human Rights Defender’s Office has revealed that the policy of Armenophobia after the 2020 Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war is still being promoted and encouraged by the Azerbaijani authorities and continuously substantiated by new developments in more extremist forms. The most significant recent development is the intensification of the hatred spread in the religious realm. Evidence suggests that rather than roll-back, the government of Azerbaijan is expanding on its policies of intolerance and discrimination.
The Human Rights Defender’s Office has studied and singled out the materials from their primary sources in Azerbaijani. All the evidence of hatred and animosity towards Armenians presented in this report is not meant to be exhaustive or is not meant to cover all cases of Armenophobia in Azerbaijan.
The primary reasoning behind writing the current report is the fact that Azerbaijani state-coordinated policies and the spill-over incidents that have breached the rights of Armenian citizens henceforth directly interfering with the primary duty of the Human Rights Defenders Office of Armenia – namely to protect Armenian citizens from gross violations of their rights, with no distinction as to the origin of perpetrators.
The purpose of the monitoring activities by the Human Rights Defender of Armenia have been to document the evidences of the state-supported policy of Armenophobia and show that the main reason and source of the violations of the rights of the Armenians by the Azerbaijani armed forces is
policy that has reached levels of fascism [4].
This report shows that this is not only about rhetorics or words used but about a long-standing institutional policy that have been implemeneted in real life (science, education, culture, sport, etc.).
For the Azerbaijani authorities, anti-Armenianism is a domestic and foreign policy tool, a source of nourishment. It is a deliberate policy of keeping one’s own people in Armenophobia in order to divert them from their internal state problems.
This is a policy full of jeopardising perils of perpetuating hostility between the peoples of the two countries and not only in the region, but also worldwide. Not only do these actions violate the basic principles of international law and undermine the entire international system of human rights, but is also a threat to the democracies and human rights of those countries where Armenians and Azerbaijanis live. The policy aims at maintaining the enmity between the two people around the world.
1 See the official decision available at: https://www.icj-cij.org/public/files/case-related/180/180-20211207-ORD-01-00-
EN.pdf (07 December 2021).
2 Ad Hoc Public Report is available in English at
https://www.ombuds.am/images/files/2032f021fe81176414a649d588ad0e86.pdf
3 Artsakh ombudsman: “Interim public report on atrocities committed by Azerbaijani military forces against the civilian population of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and servicemen of the Nagorno Karabakh Defence Army on 2-5 April 2016, https://artsakhombuds.am/ru/document/560
4 Roger Griffin, one of the most prominent scholars on fascism defines it as “a genus of political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of populist ultranationalism”, palingenetic meaning ‘rebirth’. See R. Griffin, The Nature of Fascism (London, 1991).