PA CE to consider azeri genocide issue

Besides responding to Armenia-masterminded "genocide" talk, it is also necessary to put forward the initiative of achieving international recognition of the genocide of Azerbaijanis, says chairman of the permanent commission for international relations and inter-parliamentary contacts Samad Seyidov, who is a member of the Azerbaijan delegation in the PA CE.

According to him, it is necessary to raise the issue of the genocide of Azerbaijanis in March 1918 and on February 26, 1992. Preparations for such discussions in the PA CE are already underway.

Prior to the discussion of any issue in the Assembly, it is required by the procedure to collect signatures of 20 PA members, while the Azerbaijan delegation consists of 6.

Armenians themselves unleashed genocide of Azerbaijanis in 1905-1907, 1918-1920, 1948-1953 and 1988-1993. Chronicles of the perpetrated atrocities will never be committed to oblivion:

In 1905-1907, Armenians obliterated over 300 villages, brutally killing ten of thousands of people in Baku, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Nakhchivan, Ganja, Garabagh, and Zangazur.

A similar massacre was executed in March-April 1918, when Armenians slaughtered over 50,000 Azeris in Baku, Shamakhi, Guba, Mughan, and Lankaran. 1,920 houses were burnt with total death toll of 132,000 people.

Some 500,000 Azeris residing in Armenia were driven out of their homes in 1948-1953 and 1988-1989. Thus, Armenians succeeded in their "Armenian without Turks" obsession.

As a result of Armenia's aggression against independent Azerbaijan in the 90s, 20% of Azerbaijan territories have been occupied, 20,000 Azeris have been slain, over 50,000 crippled, 724 towns, villages and residential settlements burnt. In 1992, Armenian militants exterminated a thousand residents of the Khojali town of Garabagh, including children, women and the elderly.

Parliamentary group on genocide to be set up

"It is necessary to set up a special parliamentary group to collect facts of genocide of Azerbaijanis on part of Armenians from 1918 till 1992, inform the parliaments of different countries of the discovered evidence and thus raise the issue internationally", says chairman of the Ana Vatan Party Fazayil Agamali. The proposal to bring up the issue in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly was recently initiated by the chairman of the permanent commission of the Milli Mejlis on international relations and inter-parliamentary contacts Samad Seyidov.