Nikol Pashinyan and the “Demolish the State” party actively circulate the following ignorant dilemmas:

If we say Artsakh, they will call our country “Western Azerbaijan”.

If they say genocide and ethnic cleansing, they will accuse us of “genocide”.

If we say rights of Artsakh Armenians, they will also say that we “have rights” too.

Many people fall into the trap of these theses, but there is a deep anti-logic here, and the facts speak of a completely opposite reality. Let’s take turns.

The “Western Azerbaijan” invasion concept came into circulation two months after Artsakh was recognized as part of Azerbaijan. At that time, in December 2022, Aliyev directly announced: “There has never been Armenia in this area. Today’s Armenia is our land… Now that the Karabakh conflict has been resolved, this is the issue on our agenda. Of course, it was premature to talk about it before the resolution of the Karabakh conflict. But we should not waste time. A return concept should be developed…”

When we don’t talk about Azerbaijani crimes proven by facts, when we are even ready to refuse lawsuits submitted to international courts, Azerbaijan “judges” our compatriots, accusing them and our state of being “fascist” without any grounds and without facts. Aliyev himself directly said in January of last year: “Armenia is a fascist state that is a threat to the region…”

The rights of the Armenians of Artsakh have been established by various decisions of international courts, which at the moment, yes, cannot be implemented, because Armenian hatred is propagated at the state level in Azerbaijan, but this does not mean that this right does not exist. International courts actually rejected claims related to Azerbaijanis in Soviet Armenia. Different specialists have talked about it many times. In this matter, the Azerbaijani side does not have any factual basis either.

In other words, with his “mirror” dangerous and super ignorant comparisons, Nikol Pashinyan is simply helping Aliyev to invent a non-existent history at our expense, to invent non-existent rights at our expense. He dismisses the director of the Genocide Museum-Institute for presenting a factual book about the Genocide to the US Vice President. recognize the events as “genocide committed by Armenians”.

Every time I am convinced anew that Nikol Pashinyan is the person of Azerbaijan in Armenia. All his statements and steps in the short-term, medium-term and long-term terms are used to serve the interests of the Azerbaijani side. The important thing is that all this is done by mutilating the words “peace” and “independence”…

Azerbaijani scholar Tatevik Hayrapetyan

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