The impact of this communication operation was restricted. If some have been trapped, everyone is not fooled, or has no interest to argue with that petro-dictatorship, denounced by all NGOs in the world for his defiance of rights man (which probably justifies his claim to want to rule the Nagorno-Karabakh) …

This sudden attention to these events, what arouse Baku, however, could easily turn against its authors. In striving to put under the spotlight this forgotten conflict, Azerbaijan tip the reality of a war that has claimed more than 30 000 dead and that his revenge impulses may well rekindle that are likely to add war against war violence in a saturated region.

These maneuvers also invited to recall some truths that the Armenian side fails to put forward, while it is still absorbed by the genocide of 1915. In the long list of butcheries that marked the last 150 years of its history, it would seem Indeed that, for her, while killing fewer than a million deaths is not worthy of being remembered the world. Most of the atrocities she endured, which would be considered as crimes that in the eyes of any other people, go for it by “profit and loss”.

It is such as to be confined to the contemporary era, the pogroms of Sumgait, who bloodied days of this port city on the Caspian, hundreds of kilometers from the disputed enclave. This hunting Armenian was launched by the Azerbaijani authorities February 28, 1988 to “punish” the Parliament of Stepanakert who asked to exercise a few days before its right to self-determination. At that time, there was no war in Azerbaijan. But rather a antiarménien racism inscribed in the DNA of this country and a strong tradition of the massacre. This Kristallnacht that lasted several days without the police did respond gave “the” conflict. She made hundreds of deaths and thousands of wounded among the peaceful population of the city that had 30,000 Armenians, all targeted simply on the basis of their belonging to the selected group. You said genocide?

Should also return to the massacres of Armenian civilians in the city of Kirovabad in November 1988 (nearly a hundred dead and missing)? The pogrom in Baku from 13 to 19 January 1990 which caused 300 to 400 deaths among the Armenians and put an end to the ancestral presence of hundreds of thousands of them in this city of the Caucasus. Must mention the slaughter of 10 April 1992 in the village of Maragha which Baroness Caroline Cox, Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and witness the disaster, described in these words: “decapitated heads, dismembered bodies, remains of children, bloody land and separate members of the body in places where Azerbaijanis were sawing sharp men. We have seen sharp machetes, with coagulated blood, they used to dismember people … After killing this way the residents of Maragha, Azerbaijanis looted and burned the village […] I n ‘never forget that terrible day. “?

The Armenian problem is they are struggling under the number of horrors. And they know too well the weight of the word genocide, which Ankara and Baku deny the merits regarding the extermination of a million and half Armenians in 1915, to allow the use of any will, like the Turco-Azeri to describe the events of Khojaly who have between 31 dead according to reporters on-site at the relevant time and 613 deaths, according to the Baku regime. Conversely, Azerbaijan and Turkey have an interest to squander this concept, to trivialize, to empty it of its meaning. Erdogan has thus does not hesitate to accuse the Chinese of committing “genocide” during the Xinjiang unrest July 10, 2009, the French have also been guilty of a “genocide “against the Algerians (which earned him a rebuke Ahmed Ouyahia, prime minister of this country, who asked at the time to stop this type of exploitation) or the Israelis to commit to Gaza July 2014.

These manipulations (remember the hijacking by Baku photos of the former Yugoslavia war to illustrate the “Armenian atrocities” in Nagorno-Karabakh) is to obfuscate, to mislead public opinion by playing with words, images and emotion. These methods can not however hide the nature of the conflict that Andrei Sakharov, Nobel Peace Prize, described in these words: “The war in Karabakh is a matter of national pride for Azerbaijan and survival for the Armenians” .

Since the late nineteenth century, pan-Turkism work to the final annihilation of the Armenian entity in the region. The war in Nagorno-Karabakh, triggered by Baku threatened to be revived by his mad arms race today, is part of this geostrategic perspective. The tour of Armenia, including President Aliev continues to declare that it is “an artificial state constructed on the Azerbaijani lands”, is also scheduled. Such is the trend. Incontestable. For nearly a century and a half. And except for Khojaly, that is if for once the sheep are well turned into wolves, as it tries to persuade us, alas that prove the rule.

Ara Toranian