Opinion: Should Armenians ever appear under Azerbaijani rule, they will kill them all (video)
Over 660 000 Armenians lived in the Soviet Azerbaijan but today the Armenian authorities are not talking about their rights, Mariam Avagyan, a representative of Congress of refugees from the Azerbaijan SSR, said during a discussion organized at the Modus Vivendi Centre. “Our authorities were subjected to external pressure from the first day and did everything to make the process natural. These people were deprived of their former passports and given RA citizenship instead.” In this context, Mariam Avagyan also spoke about the Madrid Principles. “There is no single word about the rights of Armenians living in the Soviet Azerbaijan in the document.” Expert of Nakhichevan studies Argam Ayvazyan added in turn, “More than 27 000 Armenian monuments, monasteries and churches were leveled to the ground but Armenia failed to condemn the vandalism committed by Azerbaijan.” “Armenians of Nakhichevan, I am speaking of the 3000 people of 1988, made part of Armenians in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan had the highest autonomy, it was a sovereign state. Today, they do not kill Armenians because there are no Armenians there. Should Armenians ever appear under Azerbaijani rule, they will kill all of them,” said Ara Papian, Head of the Modus Vivendi Centre. The participants of the discussion agreed that the 660 000 Armenians who lived in Azerbaijan had both property and territorial rights, and Artsakh should raise the issue.
