The Azeri-Turk President Orders to Falsify History
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AZERI-TURKS DESTROYING ARMENIAN CEMETERY IN WESTERN ARMENIA CAPTURED ON
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ILHAM ALIEV PREFERS TO FALSIFY HISTORY AND SPREAD ANTI-ARMENIAN
HYSTERIA, INSTEAD OF MAKING CONCESSIONS
YEREVAN, 24.12.05. Ilham Aliev, President of Azerbaijan, prefers to
falsify the history and spread anti-Armenian hysteria, instead of
making concessions for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement. Hayk
Kotanjian, councellor of RA Defence Minister, member of RF Academy of
Military Sciences, expert of the U.S. National Defence University,
stated this during the press conference, today. He said that on
December 14, 2005, when co-chairs of Misk group arrived, Ilaham Aliev
called for the Azeri historians to elaborate a program that would deny
any evidence of historical existence of the Armenians in Nagorno
Karabakh, in his speech during the 60th anniversary of the National
Academy of Science of Azerbaijan. Aliev also promised great financial
subsidities for the scholars involved in this project. The project is
based on the theory of Aliev, that says that the Armenians appreared in
Nagorno Karabakh only in 70-ies of the 19th century and have no
historical rights for the territory of NKR.
Hayk Kotanjian stated that Aleiv emphasized the importance of creating
`historical grounds and evidences` for his theory of anti-Armenian
hysteria, imparting startegic importance to it.
Kotanjian said that we deal with unprecedented case of public and
political order for historical falsifications concerning the disputable
territory to the fundamental science.On the other hand, Aliev anounced
about state sponsorship for spreading anti-Armenian hysteria by means
of mass media.
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Fact of Armenians Being Indigenous in Karabakh Recognized by
Innumerable Transactions of World Historical Science
24.12.2005 00:43 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The fact of Karabakh Armenians being indigenous is
recognized by innumerable transactions of both Armenian and world
historical science, stated Plenipotentiary Minister and Extraordinary
Envoy, full member of the Academy of Military Sciences (Moscow),
scientific expert on counter-terrorism of US National Defense
University (Washington) Hayk Kotanjyan. Spokesperson of the Defense
Minister of Armenia, colonel Seyran Shahsuvaryan told PanARMENIAN.Net.
«I leave consideration of the details of that issue to professional
historians. I will limit myself only to mentioning that 1600 years ago
the first school of Armenian script was founded in the territory of
Karabakh personally by Mesrop Mashtots, the creator of the Armenian
script,» the expert noted.
At the same time, he added, it is evident to the world science that
Turkic ancestors of contemporary Azeris were thousands of kilometers
away from the South Caucasus. The matter concerns the verity of
scientifically proved facts.
Answering a question of facts of forging the history of Azerbaijan,
known since the times of the Soviet Union, H. Kotanjyan stated, «It is
a very sensitive topic that refers not only to knowledge, but also the
sentiments of ordinary people. To understand the essence of the
falsification that is inspired by Azeri authorities, one can limit
himself to a few well-known precedents of forging the history of
Azerbaijan by appropriating the historical legacy of neighboring
peoples. A system of Azeri sources claiming a status of academic ones
is created by an order of the political center. The propaganda of those
distortions is financed. The methodology of further falsification of
the history of Azerbaijan at the expense of the historical legacy the
Armenians of Karabakh, as President Aliyev ordered in the Academy of
Sciences that is manipulated by him, is the same.»
«Of course it would be unfair to attribute manipulation, falsification
to all Azeri scholars. As of the method of slandering an object in
advance, which the neighboring state has added to its arsenal, it is
well illustrated by a Russian saying, according to which loud cry
«catch the thief» is the best way to protect against thieves.»
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http://www.international.icomos.org/risk/2002/azerbaijan2002.htm#
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International Council of Monuments and Sites
Destruction of the Armenian Cemetery at Djulfa
For a long time there have been complaints about the destruction of
Armenian monuments and sites in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, three
of the neighbouring countries of Armenia. A particularly sad example is
the destruction of the Armenian cemetery in the former town of Djulfa,
situated in the south of Nachitchevan, a region under the sovereignty
of Azerbaijan. This cemetery, which had been in use from the early
Middle Ages to the destruction of the town in 1605, was an outstanding
testimony of Armenian culture because of thousands of tombstones mostly
from the 15th and 16th centuries in the shape of so-called Khatchkars.
The destruction process, which began in 1998 when 800 Khatchkars were
removed, was temporarily halted following protests from UNESCO, but in
November 2002 it was taken up again. When ICOMOS was informed and given
photos of this barbaric act in a remote frontier area by RAA (Research
on Armenian Architecture) in January 2003 and by ICOMOS Armenia in
February 2003, the destruction, which cannot have been carried through
without the consent of the Azerbaijan government, was already
completed: "On January 10th Mr Haghnazarian [author of the following
report] was called by the very distressed Armenian Bishop of Tabriz
(Iran) who informed him that he went to the Iranian side of the river
Araxes opposite the cemetery of Djulfa some days ago to see with his
own eyes what had seemed incredible to him: The 1500-year-old cemetery
had completely been flattened in the meantime."
There only remains the hope that under the guidance of UNESCO it will
be possible to investigate the situation on the spot and to take care
of the remains of the tombstones, transported away by Azerbaijan
railways probably to be used as material for building measures.
Hopefully, strong protest will at least prevent the demolition of more
Armenian heritage sites in Azerbaijan in the future. The intentional
destruction of the cemetery of Djulfa should be considered as a crime
against the common heritage of humanity. Apart from that all that
remains is deep sorrow for the irreplaceable loss.
Here is the report of RAA:
Khatchkars are cross-stones about one metre wide and up to 2.50 metres
high, richly decorated with Christian symbols, flowers and arabesque
climbing plants as well as with subjects from daily life. These
delicately engraved stones represent a 1500-year-old tradition of
Armenian stone masons. Khatchkars are unique and were used as
free-standing steles but also as ornaments in the masonry of Armenian
churches and cloisters. Since the early Middle Ages they have been used
as tombstones on cemeteries.
One of the outstanding cemeteries because of the unusually great number
of Khatchkars is the one in the former town of Djulfa (old name Djugha)
in the south of Nachitchevan right on the bank of the river Araxes
which forms the border to Iran. Alexander Rotes mentions this cemetery
in his description of journeys in 1648 and reports of 10.000 fully
decorated cross stones. In 1605 the Armenian people of Djulfa were
forced by Shah Abbas to settle in Persia in order to have trade and
commerce developed by them in his country. He destroyed the town to
prevent their return, however left the cemetery untouched. At the
beginning of the 20th century 6000 reclining and standing Khatchkars
were still counted.
After Armenia was incorporated into the Soviet Union Nachitchevan in
the south of Armenia was declared a part of Azerbaijan at Stalin's and
Lenin's behest in 1922. Nachitchevan is still under Azerbaijan's
political sovereignty.
During the Soviet reign this historically and culturally unique
cemetery of Djulfa was not at all under the protection of historical
monuments of Azerbaijan. On the contrary. After 1922 a large number of
Khatchkars disappeared. Considering the close watch of the border of
the prohibited military zone this could not have happened without the
government's knowledge. And more destruction was yet to come.
In November 1998 eye witnesses from the Iranian border zone observed
tombstones being excavated by a crane and loaded onto railroad wagons
on the cemetery grounds across the river Araxes. The ripped-up ground
was then made even again by bulldozers. This destruction lasted for
three weeks and about 800 Khatchkars were taken away. There is reason
to believe that these cross-stones - if not destroyed right away - were
used as building material for foundations of new houses to hide their
removal. The transportation by the State Railway is clear evidence of
the planned action by the Government of Azerbaijan. Protests on behalf
of UNESCO and affiliated organisations finally put a stop to these
barbarous activities.
To our great regret the cultural outrage is going on. Reliable sources
informed us that the destruction not only of the tombstones but also of
the still existing, though greatly reduced churches and cloister
grounds in the area was resumed on 9 November 2002. A great number of
workmen are again dismantling valuable relics of Middle Age Christian
culture partly by demolishing them and partly by taking them away on
trucks to an unknown destination. And yet again this cannot be done
without the permission of the government.
One cannot avoid drawing a parallel to the fundamentally motivated
destruction of the Buddha statues by the Taliban in Afghanistan, which
was accompanied by world-wide protest. Similar to that case we are here
confronted with the systematic obliteration of religious monuments of a
foreign culture, the only difference being that the destruction in
Nachitchevan concerns the European history of civilisation.
Azerbaijan signed the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in 1993 and is
represented in the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe.
Azerbaijan consequently committed itself to the aims of this
institution and should be asked to account for its action in
Nachitchevan.
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Center for Research on Globalization, Canada
July 30 2005
Al Qaeda, U.S. Oil Companies, and Central Asia
Excerpt of a forthcoming book entitled The Road to 9/11
by Peter Dale Scott
July 30, 2005
GlobalResearch.ca
What is slowly emerging from Al Qaeda activities in Central Asia in
the 1990s is the extent to which they involved both American oil
companies and the U.S. government.[1] By now we know that the
U.S.-protected movements of al Qaeda terrorists into regions like
Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Kosovo have served the interests of U.S.
oil companies. In many cases they have also provided pretexts or
opportunities for a U.S. military commitment and even troops to
follow.
....U.S. Operatives, Oil Companies and Al Qaeda in Azerbaijan
In one former Soviet Republic, Azerbaijan, Arab Afghan jihadis
clearly assisted this effort of U.S. oil companies to penetrate the
region. In 1991, Richard Secord, Heinie Aderholt, and Ed Dearborn,
three veterans of U.S. operations in Laos, and later of Oliver
North's operations with the Contras, turned up in Baku under the
cover of an oil company, MEGA Oil.[14] This was at a time when the
first Bush administration had expressed its support for an oil
pipeline stretching from Azerbaijan across the Caucasus to
Turkey.[15] MEGA never did find oil, but did contribute materially to
the removal of Azerbaijan from the sphere of post-Soviet Russian
influence.
Secord, Aderholt, and Dearborn were all career U.S. Air Force
officers, not CIA. However Secord explains in his memoir how Aderholt
and himself were occasionally seconded to the CIA as CIA detailees.
Secord describes his own service as a CIA detailee with Air America
in first Vietnam and then Laos, in cooperation with the CIA Station
Chief Theodore Shackley.[16] Secord later worked with Oliver North to
supply arms and materiel to the Contras in Honduras, and also
developed a small air force for them, using many former Air America
pilots.[17] Because of this experience in air operations, CIA
Director Casey and Oliver North had selected Secord to trouble-shoot
the deliveries of weapons to Iran in the Iran-Contra operation.[18]
(Aderholt and Dearborn also served in the Laotian CIA operation, and
later in supporting the Contras.)
As MEGA operatives in Azerbaijan, Secord, Aderholt, Dearborn, and
their men engaged in military training, passed "brown bags filled
with cash" to members of the government, and above all set up an
airline on the model of Air America which soon was picking up
hundreds of mujahedin mercenaries in Afghanistan.[19] (Secord and
Aderholt claim to have left Azerbaijan before the mujahedin arrived.)
Meanwhile, Hekmatyar, who at the time was still allied with bin
Laden, was "observed recruiting Afghan mercenaries [i.e. Arab
Afghans] to fight in Azerbaijan against Armenia and its Russian
allies."[20] At this time, heroin flooded from Afghanistan through
Baku into Chechnya, Russia, and even North America.[21] It is
difficult to believe that MEGA's airline (so much like Air America)
did not become involved.[22]
The operation was not a small one. "Over the course of the next two
years, [MEGA Oil] procured thousands of dollars worth of weapons and
recruited at least two thousand Afghan mercenaries for Azerbaijan -
the first mujahedin to fight on the territory of the former Communist
Bloc."[23]
In 1993 the mujahedin also contributed to the ouster of Azerbaijan's
elected president, Abulfaz Elchibey, and his replacement by an
ex-Communist Brezhnev-era leader, Heidar Aliyev.
At stake was an $8 billion oil contract with a consortium of western
oil companies headed by BP. Part of the contract would be a pipeline
which would, for the first time, not pass through Russian-controlled
territory when exporting oil from the Caspian basin to Turkey. Thus
the contract was bitterly opposed by Russia, and required an Azeri
leader willing to stand up to the former Soviet Union.
The Arab Afghans helped supply that muscle. Their own eyes were set
on fighting Russia in the disputed Armenian-Azeri region of
Nagorno-Karabakh, and in liberating neighboring Muslim areas of
Russia: Chechnya and Dagestan.[24] To this end, as the 9/11 Report
notes (58), the bin Laden organization established an NGO in Baku,
which became a base for terrorism elsewhere.[25] It also became a
transshipment point for Afghan heroin to the Chechen mafia, whose
branches "extended not only to the London arms market, but also
throughout continental Europe and North America."[26]
The Arab Afghans' Azeri operations were financed in part with Afghan
heroin.
According to police sources in the Russian capital, 184 heroin
processing labs were discovered in Moscow alone last year. ''Every
one of them was run by Azeris, who use the proceeds to buy arms for
Azerbaijan's war against Armenia in Nagorno- Karabakh,'' [Russian
economist Alexandre] Datskevitch said.[27]
This foreign Islamist presence in Baku was also supported by bin
Laden's financial network.[28] With bin Laden's guidance and Saudi
support, Baku soon became a base for jihadi operations against
Dagestan and Chechnya in Russia.[29]And an informed article argued in
1999 that Pakistan's ISI, facing its own disposal problem with the
militant Arab-Afghan veterans, trained and armed them in Afghanistan
to fight in Chechnya. ISI also encouraged the flow of Afghan drugs
westward to support the Chechen militants, thus diminishing the flow
into Pakistan itself.[30]
As Michael Griffin has observed, the regional conflicts in
Nagorno-Karabakh and other disputed areas, Abkhazia, Turkish
Kurdistan and Chechnya each represented a distinct, tactical move,
crucial at the time, in discerning which power would ultimately
become master of the pipelines which, some time in this century, will
transport the oil and gas from the Caspian basin to an energy-avid
world.[31]
The wealthy Saudi families of al-Alamoudi (as Delta Oil) and bin
Mahfouz (as Nimir Oil) participated in the western oil consortium as
partners with the American firm Unocal. In October 2001, the U. S.
Treasury Department named among charities allegedly providing funds
to al Qaeda the Saudi charity Muwafaq (Blessed Relief), to which the
al-Alamoudis and bin Mahfouz families were named as major
contributors.[32] One cannot discern whether religion or oil was
their primary charitable motive.
It is unclear whether MEGA Oil was a front for the U.S. Government or
for U.S. oil companies and their Saudi allies. U.S. oil companies
have been accused of spending millions of dollars in Azerbaijan, not
just to bribe the government but also to install it. According to a
Turkish intelligence source who was an alleged eyewitness, major oil
companies, including Exxon and Mobil, were "behind the coup d'itat"
which in 1993 replaced the elected President, Abulfaz Elchibey, with
his successor, Heydar Aliyev. The source claimed to have been at
meetings in Baku with "senior members of BP, Exxon, Amoco, Mobil and
the Turkish Petroleum Company. The topic was always oil rights and,
on the insistence of the Azeris, supply and arms to Azerbaijan."
Turkish secret service documents allege middlemen paid off key
officials of the democratically elected government of the oil-rich
nation just before its president was overthrown.[33]
The true facts and backers of the Aliyev coup may never be fully
disclosed. But unquestionably, before the coup, the efforts of
Richard Secord, Heinie Aderholt, Ed Dearborn and Hekmatyar's
mujahedin helped contest Russian influence and prepare for Baku's
shift away to the west.[34] Three years later, in August 1996,
Amoco's president met with Clinton and arranged for Aliyev to be
invited to Washington.[35] In 1997 Clinton said that
In a world of growing energy demand.our nation cannot afford to rely
on a single region for our energy supplies. By working closely with
Azerbaijan to tap the Caspian's resources, we not only help
Azerbaijan to prosper, we also help diversify our energy supply and
strengthen our energy's security.[36]
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