Azerbaijan’s Human Rights Commissioner issued a statement on the occasion of “Azerbaijani Genocide Day.”
The statement refers to “the events of March-April 1918,” which, according to the statement’s authors, “have gone down in history as the mass murder of thousands of innocent people based on their nationality and religion.”
“International organizations and UN member states must take a principled stance against the series of ethnic cleansings and genocidal crimes committed by Armenians against Azerbaijanis and recognize the events of 1918 as genocide,” the Azerbaijani Human Rights Commissioner demands.
As a reminder, Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan recently declared his refusal to restore historical injustice. He explained his decision by citing a desire to strengthen peace. “Talks of genocide breed talk of genocide, talk of return breeds talk of return, and it all boils down to one thing: preventing the people of Armenia, including the people of Karabakh, from finding peace by keeping them as refugees and migrants.”
Apparently, Baku isn’t even considering abandoning the rhetoric of war and genocide. The denial of the real Armenian genocide is countered by a fictitious “genocide of Azerbaijanis,” and alongside the rejection of international recognition of the Armenian genocide, the issue of “recognition of the genocide of Azerbaijanis” is being pushed onto the agenda.