Ankara sent letters to the schools on the anniversary of the death of the mass murderer of Armenians Abdul Hamid II

February 24, 2018 By administrator

Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II mass murderer who slaughtered Armenians in 1880s.

Ankara Provincial Directorate of National Education, II. Declared mobilization throughout the province for the 100th anniversary of Abdülhamit’s death. In the letter sent to all school directors, instructions were given for organizing the event.

It was requested to organize an activity committee related to the subject, to organize the contests related to the topic, to prepare magazines, newspapers and wall newspapers, organize interviews and to commemorate the programs attended by all the students.

New York Time 1990 article clearly says what the #Azerbaijani nationalism looked like, Slaughter of Sumgait Armenians

January 17, 2018 By administrator

Sumgait massacre

Azerbaijan is no Lithuania. True, resurgent nationalism arouses people in the Caucasus just as it arouses the Baltic republics. But there the comparison ends – and the trouble for Moscow begins.

Nationalists in Lithuania are struggling to wrest independence from Moscow by nonviolent, political means. Nationalists in Azerbaijan also talk of independence, but their protest includes bloody pogroms against their Armenian neighbors. Nor do Azerbaijani nationalists limit their actions to Soviet Azerbaijan. They transgress the border with Iran to make common cause with Azerbaijanis there.

Mikhail Gorbachev seems prepared to bargain with Lithuania’s nationalists. But Azerbaijan’s violent nationalists leave him no choice but to send in the troops.

The nationalism now surging from Omsk to Tomsk is an understandable reaction to decades of forced assimilation. Stalin redrew borders, relocated populations and suppressed cultural and religious differences, all in the name of internationalism. But ancient national aspirations did not dis-appear.

This week’s massacre in Baku, of predominantly Christian Armenians by Muslim Azerbaijanis, shows nationalism at its nastiest. Generations of religious hatred erupted in spasmodic violence two years ago as armed Azerbaijanis rampaged through the town of Sumgait and slaughtered 32 people, mostly Armenians. After the 1988 earthquake that killed 25,000 Armenians, Azerbaijanis blocked railways to Armenia, holding up aid. Now the rivals vie for control of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave that Stalin incorporated into Azerbaijan in 1923.

The Armenians sought protection from Moscow. Mr. Gorbachev first resisted but renewed strife forced him to intervene. The Azerbaijanis added to his unease by declaring their interest in carving out a state on both sides of the national border. This was a clear threat to Iran’s territorial integrity and its warming relations with the Soviet Union. Teheran asked the Soviets to beef up border patrols.

Mr. Gorbachev and his reformist Kremlin allies are prepared to tolerate, even encourage, moderate nationalists who challenge central control and demand autonomy. But Moscow rightly feels that, in a polyglot country with 104 different nationalities, ethnic violence is beyond the pale.

Azerbaijan dramatizes Mr. Gorbachev’s larger dilemma. To generate economic thrust, he wants to shift power from Moscow’s stodgy bureaucracies to the regional republics. But how can he do this without unleashing nationalist hatreds and irredentism? The problem is illustrated by the struggle over Nagorno-Karabakh, a region as big as Long Island with a population of 160,000.

Putting either Azerbaijanis or Armenians in charge would leave one people at the mercy of the other. Moscow has to assume direct control. But that runs counter to Mr. Gorbachev’s desire for devolution. And the troops, once introduced, will be difficult to extricate. Nothing so challenges Mr. Gorbachev’s resourcefulness, and his fragile coalition of reformists and moderate nationalists, as the flow of blood in the Caucasus.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/19/opinion/nationalism-at-its-nastiest.html

Yezidi MP in Iraq: ‘We Are Being Slaughtered’ (Video)

August 6, 2014 By administrator

Children are among the tens of thousands stuck for days in the Shingal mountains, where dozens have already died of starvation and thirst. Photo: Rudaw

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A Yezidi MP in the Iraqi parliament broke down in tears as she pleaded for immediate help for thousands from her community stuck for days on an arid mountain, where more than 60 children and the elderly have died of starvation and thirst. report Rudaw

“We are being slaughtered under the banner of ‘there is no God but Allah,’” Vian Dakhil told MPs, referring the families who fled to the outskirts of Shingal, which fell to Islamic State (IS/ISIS) militants on Saturday.

In tears, Dakhil said that an entire religion is being exterminated by the Islamic zealots, who remain holed up in Shingal under heavy fire from Peshmerga forces.

“There is now a campaign of genocide being waged on the Yazidis,” Dakhil said.

“Brothers, leave all political disputes aside, we want humanitarian solidarity! Speak here in the name of humanity: save us! save us!” Dakhil appealed.

She added that, “Thirty-thousand families are besieged in the Shingal mountains without water and food. They are dying. Seventy babies have died,” she said.

“Our women are taken as slaves and sold in the slave market,” Dakhil said, referring to the IS practice of taking women as war booty.

Yezidi leaders have continued to seek international help for the tens of thousands displaced by the ongoing fighting and are at imminent risk of death.

They have reported that over the past three days the militants have killed many from the community and taken 500 Yezidi women as hostages. IS fighters have posted pictures of dead Yezidis on the Internet.

Earlier this week, Kurdish President Massoud Barzani vowed to “defend Shingal and our Yezidi brothers and sisters.”

IS fighters, who have already driven out Christians from their ancestral homes in northern Iraq – including Zumar — have been especially targeting the Yezidis, a gentle community they consider to be “devil worshipers.”
The United Nations has called the situation in Shingal and other parts of Nineveh province “a humanitarian disaster.”
With no Iraqi forces left in those regions, the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters remain the only barrier between the militants and the Kurdish community of Yezidis and Christians in the province.

On Monday, Barzani ordered more than 10,000 Kurdish fighters into an offensive against IS, which has declared an Islamic Caliphate in captured territories in Iraq and Syria, with its capital in Mosul. Iraq’s second-largest city fell to the militants in June.