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CENTURY GENOCİDE-AGDABAN TRAGEDY
The committed acts against our people
due to its bitterness, scale and consequences should be
characterised as a crime against the humanity, be estimated
international politically and legally, its ideologists and
organisers be decently punished. We have no right to forget
these actions and their lessons. Historical absent-mindedness
and forgetfulness can result in bad ending for our nation.
Heydar Aliyev
The realised actions in Agdaban village
of Kalbajar region, at night, on the 7-th of April, 1992
will never be cleaned from the memory of our people. Because,
that time not any kind of little crime but historical genocide
activities were realized against whole Azerbaijani nation
and one of the biggest crime was committed. The instigators
of this tragedy are our malevolent Armenian neighbors who
dream to create “Great Armenia” from sea to sea on the account
of Azeri lands. Agdaban Tragedy is one of the constituent
parts of the historical ethnical cleansing policy of Armenian
aggressors against Azerbaijani people. In 1992, at night,
7 April, 1992 by the help of the Armenian armed forces in
Nagorno Karabakh and foreign defenders of armed forces of
Armenian Republic attacked Agdaban village of Kalbajar region,
burnt a village of 130 houses, inflicted reprisals to 779
people of peaceful village civillians, killed 67 people
ruthlessly, realised genocide activity as an indelible stain
on humanity. Within a night 8 old men of 90-100 years old,
2 juvenile children, 7 women were burnt alive on fire, 2
people were missing and 12 people were badly injured. Our
historical, architectural and cultural monuments were destroyed,
saint places and graveyards were humiliated and ruined.
Armenian seperatists plundered and burnt manuscripts of
virtuoso of classic azeri ashug poetry Ashug Gurban and
his son Ashug Shamishir following their vandalism policy
against our cultural heritage. People were killed with cruelty
as for being turkish, helpless old people, children, women
were taken as hostages bearing inadmissible oppression and
insultings at that night.
Armenian soldiers skinned the heads of
killed people, took out their eyes, altogether they have
submitted the biggest crime against humanity in the universe.
Agdaban tragedy, armenian aggressive policy against our
nation, their barbarism and using the most villian ways
against humanity has entered into history and will be eternally
kept. The people who were killed and dead on that night
are dear children of our nation, they gave their life as
sacrifice for the intergrity of our republic, they are victims
of national struggle of our people, they are Martyrs. Tragic
death of patriots of motherland becoming victims demonstrate
the patriotism, heroism and braveness of our nation. Armenian’s
bad intention in committment of Agdaban genocide was to
terrify our people, to seize citizens by fear, to break
down their resistance and reconcile them with the terror
acts realised within several years against azerbaijani people.
But armenian invadors couldn’t realise their bad ambitions.
Agdaban people didn’t lose themselves
or bow displaying heroism and bravery before the armed enemy
supplied with modern weapons from head to foot. Rural population
demonstrated real heroism and patriotism fighting in this
unequal battle. Our target is to spread all realities of
Agdaban tragedy to the world public, to take significant
steps in declaration of the tragedy as a real genocide act,
to write books, to shoot documentary and feature films,
to carry out valuable research works, to bring the tragedy
to the agenda in parliaments of different countries and
international organizations, to estimate it from political-legal
point of view trying to question the instigators of Agdaban
tragedy before an international court. This incomparable
genocide, committed mass and terrible terror acts were not
only against our people as a new bloody page of the purposeful
reactive policy of Armenian chauvinists aiming Azerbaijan
state independence and territorial integrity but also was
a large scaled crime against whole humanity. But unfortunately,
no measures were taken to prevent this tragedy by the leadership
of the republic during that period; on the contrary they
kept the world public unaware of this crime.
Our great leader Heydar Aliyev said prudently:
“Prevention of an event is easier than eradication of its
result after it happens. It is a fact that if our country
were under the leadership of our national leader Heydar
Aliyev within hard days of our people including Agdaban
tragedy, tragedy of January 20, Khojaly tragedy, occupation
of our lands, and other committed tragedies realized against
our nation which had formerly happened would have been prevented.
After holding the power, with the persistent demands of
the people Government and Parliament of Azerbaijan pursue
the policy of informing the world powers, their parliaments
and the vast masses about the realities of the crimes committed
historically by Armenian chauvinists against Azerbaijanis
with all its scales and terrors and recognition of all these
as genocide policy since 1993.
These incidents have been estimated politically with the
decree of “Genocide of Azerbaijanis” signed by our national
leader Heydar Aliyev on March 26, 1998.
We can decisively say this historical document
that is of state importance plays an exceptional and non-substitutive
role in spreading voice of justice of Azerbaijani people,
and lighting the mixed pages of the history and informing
the world public with realities. The above-mentioned decree
put important responsibilities before each Azerbaijani for
restoration of historical memory and its strengthening and
displayed the necessity of public struggle against Armenian
chauvinism. That is why our people will never forget the
service and braveness of our national leader.
Peace-loving people of the world, civilized
countries, prestigious international organizations should
recognize the realities of Karabakh and Agdaban tragedies,
this crime committed against humanity should be legally
estimated. There are irrefutable proofs that can be produced
as evidences for the terrorism policy of this country, which
committed Agdaban genocide. So, the President of Azerbaijan
Republic, Ilham Aliyev has firmly objected to twofold standards
of international union struggling against separatism and
terrorism about the issue during his speeches before international
unions, at meetings with the heads of states, during talks
and discussions.
As a result of the policy of the president
all the world union has already began to support the justified
position of Azerbaijan. It gives hope that sooner or later
the perpetrators of Agdaban massacre will be decently punished.
Over the XX century Azerbaijani people
bared Armenian aggression and ethnical cleansing four times.
These happened in 1905-1907, 1918-1920, 1948-1953 and finally
in 1988-1993. All over the history Armenians have perpetrated
bloody crimes and terror acts against our nation. At present
20% of Azerbaijani lands are under occupation. More than
one million people were driven out of their native lands,
18 Azerbaijanis were killed, more than 20 thousand peaceful
civilians were injured, more than 50 people became invalids,
more than 4 thousand people were missing and taken as hostages,
877 towns and villages were plundered and destroyed. Purposeful
work program started by the national leader Heydar Aliyev,
and followed by the president of the country Ilham Aliyev
finally resulted in of Armenia as an aggressor by European
Union and Security Council of UNO, they recognize the territorial
integrity of Azerbaijan and note it in their resolutions.
While addressing our people on the Day of Azerbaijanis Genocide,
on March 31, 2006 the president of the country Ilham Aliyev
said: “I am confident that owing to patriotism, national
unity and purposeful activities of our nation, and political
volition of Azerbaijan leadership we will achieve all our
objects as well as restoration of territorial integrity
and sovereign, revealing those who commit real massacres
of decades regularly, and propagate hatred and hostility
among people and nations.”
Azerbaijani nation always hold the same
opinions with our honorable president on national tasks
such as spreading realities of Azerbaijan to the world,
both enthusiastically and professionally.
The president of Azerbaijan Republic has
declared constant position of Azerbaijan in all his meetings.
He has stated that Nagorno Karabakh is the territory Azerbaijan
and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan is being recognized
by the whole world and UNO and conflict can be solved only
within the framework of international legal norms. Our honorable
president has also mentioned that territorial integrity
of Azerbaijan is not the subject of the talk.
We can never consent to the separation
of Nagorno Karabakh from Azerbaijan. We hope that in consequence
of purposeful policy of our respected president Ilham Aliyev
our occupied lands will be liberated from invaders, all
our refugees and internally displaced people will return
their native lands.
Javid
Gurbanov
Chief of Roadtransservice Department
Ministry of Transport,
Deputy of National Assembly
Candidate of Technical Sciences
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