AZERBAIJANI WRITER: NOVEL IS AIMED AT SHOWING REPENTANCE FOR OUR DEEDS
18:52 01/02/2013 ” SOCIETY
Anti-Armenian hysteria continues to expand in Azerbaijan in connection
with the publication of the novel written by writer Akram Aylisli
“Stone Dreams” which tells of the massacres of Armenians in Nakhijevan
in the early 20th century and in Baku at the end of the century.
Azerbaijani writer and winner of state awards was accused of “sympathy
for the Armenians”. Pro-governmental youth crowded in front of his
house. They burnt his portraits and shouted anti-Armenian slogans.
Website Aznews.az held a survey with the Azerbaijani literary critics
and public figures. It turned out that most of them had not have even
read the book. Those who had read it refused to comment on it.
Meanwhile, Azerbaijani poet Musa Yagub believes that dark clouds are
looming over Aylilsi head. “I think it is an intentional organized
campaign against Akram. Something is being planned against him”, said
Musa Yagub.
Executive secretary of the ruling party “Yeni Azerbaijan” Siyavush
Novruzov said in his turn that the “Akram Aylisli’s biggest dream is
to become an ambassador to Armenia,” Azxeber.com says. “Probably, he
also wants to win a Nobel Prize, just like Orhan Pamuk who recognized
the Armenian Genocide,” said Siyavush Novruzov and reminded that it
was Zia Buniyatov that had expressed assumptions about Aylisli’s
Armenian origin as the latter was born in Nakhijevan, in a village
populated by Armenians. “Now, this fact was confirmed,” said the
functionary of the ruling party.
“Is it you who should serve an example for the young people, you
unscrupulous and dishonest person!” young Azerbaijani poet Ahmed
Shaheed said about Akram Aylisli, the Strategiya.az writes.
Azerbaijani MP, poet Musa Guliyev also accused Aylisli in habing an
Armenian origin. In an interview with the Modern.az, Musa Guliyev
noted that by this novel Aylisli gave another reason to Armenians to
claim that they cannot live side by side with barbarous Azerbaijanis.
“In the introduction he writes that the book is devoted to his
“compatriots” and it is not by chance. This means that he is about
Armenians in Agulis,” Musa Guliyev stated.
Meanwhile, Asim Mollazade, Azerbaijani MP, found a “Russian trace” in
this incident. As Ann.az reports Mollazade called the novel “a
political scandalous trick”, he said that all the events described in
the novel are pure inventions, and the novel itself is an order from
Russia aimed at undermining the public consolidation in Azerbaijan.
Akram Aylisli in an interview given to Kulis.az stated that in 1988,
when the first version of his novel about Agulis was published, he
warned that they should not start a fight against the Armenians, as
they may lose it. “And what did we gain in the result of the war? I
was factually right,” he noted. The Azerbaijani writer also drew
attention to the impossibility of holding a dialogue with the
Armenians of Karabakh due to the hostile propaganda against them.
“We will have another variant if no Armenian will be left there. But
it is impossible. As for Agulis, there really occurred a massacre in
that village in 1919. This is a history, a fact. Any aged resident of
Agulis can attest it, because they saw it with their own eyes. My
uncle, my mother, my grandmother saw this. As for the publication of
the updated version of novel, it is my protest against the current
politics. It is not directed against the people. Tomorrow we will have
to make it up with the Armenians. We are doomed to it.
In connection with the events in Sumgait, we must bravely talk about
every fact of injustice and call a spade a spade. If not the writer
then the people of Azerbaijan will have to do it. The novel was aimed
at showing repentance for our deeds,” the Azerbaijani writer stated.
Source: Panorama.am