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In Azerbaijan, children in preschool and kindergarten are taught from a young age that Armenians are their archenemies who have stolen their land. You already eliminated the Jews in the 30s and 40s, right? You should be able to understand us.” In 2004 Azerbaijan’s defense minister said, “Within the next 25 years there will be no state of Armenia, these people have no right to live in this region.” In 2005, the mayor of Azerbaijan’s capital Baku said to a German delegation: “ Our goal is the complete elimination of Armenians. Historians, archaeologists, and scholars studying any Caucasian issues are actually warned not to use the libraries and archives in Azerbaijan, not only for the false revisionist scholarship they’ve created over the past 100 years but also for any translations from ancient Greek, Roman, and Persian sources, because even in these translations they’ve erased any mention of Armenian presence in the Caucasus. It is actually a colony, a territory artificially created on ancient Azerbaijani lands.” In 2015 he revised his sentiments saying, “Armenia is not even a colony, it is not even worthy of being a servant.” In 2012 the dictator of Azerbaijan, and also nominally, President, Ilham Aliyev, publicly said, “Armenia as a country is of no value. So deep and broad is the anti-Armenian sentiment in Turkey and Azerbaijan that it cannot help but bubble up like venom and bile even in public settings from the top public official. Stoking intolerance of neighboring countries is the playbook by which they distract their own citizens from their descent into illiberal totalitarianism. These countries have bottom-of-the-barrel rankings in press freedoms, religious freedoms, human rights and on and on. Armenia’s enemies do not even have the shame to hide Geneva Convention violations.Ī propaganda machine that manufactures hatred of Armenians has become a unifying rally cry for two regimes that manipulate ethnic intolerance even as they choke away the freedoms from their own populations. The same day Azerbaijan released a video showing the execution of two Armenian prisoners. Last week, Armenian surgeons stayed up all night performing life-saving surgery on an Azeri prisoner of war. I specifically say regimes of Turkey and Azerbaijan rather than nations, because Armenians do not deal in the same ethnic character assassinations of entire populations as do their enemies. They salivate in their daydreams about the annihilation of the inconveniently located Armenians living between them. You don’t have to take my word for it as they frequently march to the repetitive, droning motto “one nation, two states”. The regimes of Turkey and Azerbaijan are two sides of the same coin. Artsakh is the flashpoint of a battle between global civilization and sectarian tyranny. Make no mistake, the battle for Artsakh is not some ethnic grievance in which Armenians seek support because they make up some percentage of some constituency in this city or in that district of our adopted home countries. Their love affair is forged in hatred of the Armenian people and their collective denial of the rights of Armenians to exist on their ancestral homeland. This is a depraved politics which the entirety of the civilized world has rejected and yet it rears its ugly head in this twisted love affair between Turkey and Azerbaijan that threatens the lives of millions of indigenous Armenians living on their ancestral homeland. Gregory) in the fifth century.īut the time for a history lesson is not now because Armenians are under attack now by sick political pathologies that stew in ethnic hatred and proud boasting references to genocide. If the goal was to discuss ancient history, it would be relevant to mention that the oldest standing structure in Artsakh is a mausoleum dedicated to St. Rather it has served as the beating heart of Armenian life and culture for millenia. Yet for Armenians, Artsakh is anything but obscure. The American media frequently refers to Artsakh as an enclave, oblast or an obscure region of the world. Rally in Worcester, Mass., Octo(Photo: Nooshig Varjabedian) Editor’s Note: The following was a speech delivered by the author at a rally outside Worcester City Hall on Friday, October 16.