EXPATRIATION

The first fugitives from Armenia appeared in Azerbaijan already in mid February, 1988.

Oppressed, downtrodden, frightened helpless people didn't know what to do: for they were not only insulted; they were under the threat of physical reprisal, driven out of the land which had been their native land for centuries. In order to speed up the currency of exile, blood was needed. On February 24 blood was shed on the Stepanakert-Agdam highway, the two sacrifices being two Azerbaijan boys. On February 28 came Sumgait tragedy later accused by the people and government of Azerbaijan. The central press even after the court trial quietly evaded the fact that one of the main participants of these actions was Eduard Robertovich Grigoryan, Armenian by nationality, born in the family of a worker in Sumgait, 1959. Two of his brothers are in prison. He himself was convicted three times - in 1979,1981,1982; in total he served in prison 9 years, 2 months and 13 days. Here are the testimonies of some co-participants and victims of the criminal.

The testimony of Mamedov /member of the gang/: "Edik Grigoryan was standing in the centre of the crowd. Like the others, he was also shouting "Karabakh is ours". As soon as shouting stopped, Grigoryan gave an order "Follow me".

Isayev /member of the gang/: "We broke into the flat of the Medjlumyans. There was only one girl in the room. Grigo­ryan Edik assaulted the girl and began to rape her. Then Edik came up to me, pushing me slightly, said: "Now you go and try". "Before I kept quiet about Grigoryan... he has got a lot of pals in all prison camps of the Union, he can get one at all costs and finish off".

L. Medjlumyan /victim/: "I fainted. When I opened my eyes, I saw the man lying on me, as I afterwards recognized, Eduard Grigoryan. His arm was tattood. "Rima or Rita" it read./tattoo on the arm of Grigoryan read "Rita" /K. Medjlumyan /victim/: "Grigoryan struck my mother's head with the broken leg of a chair. From his looks you might suppose he was of Lezghin nationality".

In another flat Grigoryan brandished an axe at Petrosyan. The latter could evade the strike but nevertheless fell to the ground from the blow. Petrosyan was saved only because Grigoryan thought him dead and during the confrontation the victim identified the criminal.

From the videorecord of the confrontation:

Isayev says to Grigoryan: "You yourself told me that February 28 is the day granted to you by God himself, that luck itself had found you", Grigoryan loses his temper and shouts "Why did I ever feed you?"

Grigoryan and member of his band were convicted but Emma Grigoryan's case murdered by the same hand was sent by the court for further investigation.

But the main thing has been achieved - the nationalists have profited much by this tragedy. The events took an irre­versible turn. Further the stream of fugitives grew. It reached its culmination point when the leaders and the militants in Arme­nia put into execution their brilliant action. The year of 1988 was nearing the end. The incapability of the centre to affect the event grew more and more obvious. There was a feeling of lawlessness, as those who evaded the law remained unpunished. The representative of the so-called cream of Armenian intelligentsia, corresponding member of Armenian Academy of Sciences Raphael Kazaryan addressing multithousand meeting on the Teatralnaya Ploshad in Yerevan said plainly: "For deca­des it is I the first opportunity for us to clear Armenia".

Pay attention to the refinement of the word "clear" and it is here that you recall Ribbentrop and gas stoves.

There was a reality in that statement, Armenian militants together with the representatives of the Soviet Power and Ar­menian Communist Party started actions of robbery and banditism against the defenceless and armless Azerbaijan people of Armenia; broke into the houses, murdered, raped, cut off noses and ears of the children, destroyed everything that was at hand. Those who survived - in winter in the mountains, would be driven out onto the roads: "Get out of Armenia, con-founded Turks!"

Here are two evidences of thousands of frightful episodes of debauch:

On November 26, 1988, inhabitant of the village of Nizami, Zanghibasar district. Mehtiyev Sabir together with his son Iskender and Artesh Minasyan from Baku drove out in a car from the village. Near the lake Sevan the road was blockaded with lorries by the "bearded". Having pulled the father and the son out of the car, Armenian militants searched the car and captured 3,800 roubles, loans worthy of 5000 roubles and a bank account of 14,000 roubles, set the car in fire and began healing the father and the son. They beat them with metallic whips and stones, until they lost consciousness. The bandits thinking the victims dead, left the bodies on the road.

Iskender recalls:

"When I opened my eyes, I discovered myself lying in the hospital. Father was also lying next to me. Around us there were many people who were looking at us and smiling. When I wanted to raise myself, somebody knocked me over the head with a bottle and said:" It is for Sumgait." The medical nurses also assaulted us. Till the morning we remained under he bed without taking any medicine. Then militiamen came up to me. One of them was writing something and said: "Now you must sign that you yourself burned the car". I refused to do it. Then the other took out push-button knife and a blade from his poc­ket, pointed at my ear and said: "If you don't sign here, I'll first cut your ear and then your nose".

I felt warm blood on my face. He had cut my ear. I was helpless and obliged to sign.

When they had gone, the soldiers sent us to a military hos­pital. As father couldn't tolerate such cruelties, he passed away. With the help of the soldiers we carried father's body first to Nakhichevan and from there to Baku".

On November 29 head of the district department. Ministry of Internal Affairs of Armenia arrived at the village Saral, Spitak region. Having, gathered the inhabitants, he warned: 'Tomorrow we'll provide you with buses, mobile shops and trucks. Gather your things and go to Azerbaijan, two BTRs /armoured troop-carriers/ will accompany you. You can no longer live here. No one can ensure your security".

By the evening of the next day the column set out. One BTR was leading, the other BTR brought up the rear. On the cross-roads a patrol of /GAI/ State Traffic Inspection detained part of the column. The leading part passed without any escort from behind. Approaching the village Markovit near Kirovakan the column was seized by a shower of bullets. Bursts of automatic gun fire stitched through the car, which the Balajayevs were driving.

In the car were killed:

Balajaev Teymur Masim oglu, born in 1957. Balajayeva Suraya Husein kizi, born in 1951. Balajayev Shahin, aged 11.

The lorries turned aside, carrying a goods and chattels of the people trying to escape from death and those who had been killed to the nearest Armenian pansion.

A day before, the same fate had befallen on another such column.

A conveyor of death, conducted by Armenian militia-head, acted with assiduity.

AGGRESSION

The horror of aggression didn't clarify the reason of ideolo­gists and leaders of Armenian National Movement, as they soon will be called.

On December 8, 1988, Committee of Karabakh movement of Armenia addressed its compatriots: "We call the central government not to use the tragedy of the Armenian people for announcing all-union building construction - not to try to change ethnic structure of Armenia. "For Armenian nationa­lists the presence of the people of other nationalities among them is more terrible than the earthquake, the presence of the Azerbaijanis being more terrible as they are nearer. as they have just been ousted, as their rich land, which can be easily obtained from under the wreckage of the collapsing empire, is situated nearer.

Further armament is necessary. And arms started coming, Paris newspaper "Le Journal du Dimanche" dated to January 24, 1990 published an information of' its special correspondent Clode-Marie Vardot:

"For the last few weeks in Yerevan, planes loaded with heavy arms, trench-mortars and automatic machines continuously arrived from Lebanon. Unloading was carried out at night under the escort of Armenian customs-officials. The latters have freed themselves of any guidance that came to them from outside the republic and sided with Armenian extremists. It's already for some days, that not a single Russian can be found among the officials of the customs-house This delivery of arms seems to have begun in September. By the moment, in Nagorny Karabakh civil war flares up, in Yerevan and in villages in the territory between the capital and the boarder line with Azerbaijan, more and more armed men are seen. And also a great number of' passionate youngsters, who are ready to take plunge.

At the head of these bands Armenians from Beirut and Da­mascus can often be seen. Some of them are like Lebanese terrorists and christian armed units. Hundreds of Lebanese Arme­nians, familiar with the tactics of street fights, arrived here without visa. Part of them is in Yerevan, but the majority have already left to the boardening territories in the outskirts of Goris and across Khanlar region of Azerbaijan. "Karabakh" committee holds in its hands the organization of sallies against Azerbaijan. Only it has the possibility of providing you with a helicopter for a fast trip into the east of the country".

The Azerbaijan side made an attempt to control over the loads delivered to Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh region through its territory. In the trains and cars they would find rockets, launchers, explosives and other weapons. These loads were detained.

And this was followed by a heart-rending yell-Blockade!

Again poor Armenian people are being blockaded!

Meanwhile instructors arrived in Armenia, new units were formed, troops of Ministry of Internal Affairs and army were removed, evidently there was no order to interfere. The attacks on the forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the mili­tary units of the Soviet Army with a view to capture weapons grew more frequent. From the materials of the Commission on National Policy and International Relations of the Soviet of Nationalities of the USSR Supreme Soviet: from January to February 10, 1990 were made 131 attacks, captured 6,179 fire arms, 3 trench-mortars, 13 machine-guns, 1000 automatic-machines, 1300 rifles, 1300 revolvers and pistols, 133 cannons and 17-launchers, 13000 projectiles and rockets, 556 grenades, 19 armours, 1921 tons of explosives.

An ordinary human logics prompts that they are arming themselves for aggression and attacks. Armenian militants didn't keep wailing long. Attacks one after another are made on bordering villages and beginning with April and May, 1991, on the cities of Azerbaijan.

The units of internal troops couldn't ensure security of in­habitants of a small city of Karki of the Nakhichevan Autono­mous Republic of Azerbaijan. Together with the peaceful po­pulation, military details were also under regular shelling. It was a miracle that colonel Parasukhin, major Tikhamirov, se­nior lieutenant Laplyev remained alive. Being assured, that the officers of internal troops were in the car, the bandits opened fire and the bursts of bullets stitched the car through, fortunately, the officers came out safe and sound. The villagers were obliged to abandon their homes leaving everything; in charge of the officers. But the officers also left. Then in January, 1990. the village was captured by Armenian armed forces.

Armenian leaders changed the name of the village and in­habited it with the citizens of Armenia.

Impunity encourages the aggressor. War and terroristic acts cover more and more new settlements.

On the night of March 23, 1990, about two hours and 30 minutes, the village of Baganis Ayrum of Kazakh district of Azerbaijan was under bombardment.

At 6 o'clock Armenian militants armed with rifles in military uniforms burst into the villages. Unable to leave the village in time, sick villagers, including 2 women aged 30 and 33 and a 2-month-old infant were killed and burned. Special group of militants started robbing the houses and the cattle The third group poured pails of petrol on the houses and set them on fire.

The sacrifices might be considerably larger, if not for the two officials of the Kazakh District Department of Internal Affairs, who were engaged in organizing the secret fight of the people. One of them Akhmedov Mejid Oklay oglu lost his life saving the people. As a whole, there died 7 people, 11 houses were burned. Senior lieutenant S. Chetenov, who arrived in the place of the tragedy, testifies:

"...The militants were caught red-handed. They were dispossessed of two trenchmortars and 30 mortar shells. According to the preliminary evidences of the specialists, fragments of the bomb discovered in Baganis Ayrum, are identical with those found on the militants. The militants were handed over to Noyemberyan regional department of Internal Affairs of Armenia where they were immediately released, without any record of interrogation... At autostation an old woman seized me by the sleeve. Looking at me with sad eyes, filled with tears, she was saying something with pain at heart.

"- Don't be angry, commander, her grandson was recently killed. Those were also wearing identical uniforms".

Were-wolves are wearing not only military uniforms, they are also protected by the Supreme Soviet of Armenia; these bandits swearing allegiance to national-separatists are being legalized, others receive certificates of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Armenia and a right to carry on themselves stolen weapons.

Armenian apostolic church, in the face of Echmiadzin, lavishly provides the murderers with the documents for shekel and warrants made by the clergymen of Artsakh Armenian charily society "Amaras" under the motto "God is our light and salvation" and the aim of the trip: "efficient solution of the problem, granting help to orphans". These infanticides under the protection of hypocrites, do their best to increase the number of orphans. With such documents were also provided the murderers of colonel V. Blakhotin, a terroristic act, commi­tted in Rostov, on April 8, 1991. The documents were confir­med by signatures of the people's deputies of the USSR Supre­me Soviet from Nagorny Karabakh region, initiator and mouthpieces of Karabakh conflict. Along the border-line road between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the twilight one can see groups of fair-haired, whitefaced armed men in uniforms; a driver in the dim light of the car can take them for the soldiers of Soviet Army called from Ryazan and Yaroslavl, but they will be mistaken, for they are were-wolves from Armenian bands, calling themselves Armenian National army, disguising their faces behind gutta-percha masks, resembling the faces of Russian boys. A lonely car with its passengers is the main goal of the cut-throats annihilating people of non-Armenian natio­nality. Such is the reality of this war. Senior lieutenant Chetenov having watched a video-cassette about the consequences of the terroristic actions of the bandits in Baganis Ayrum, was shocked:

"I, who had passed through horrors of Afghanistan, am shoc­ked. It is terrible to see a crawling man on his knee in the as­hes gathering carbonized pieces of his brother's body into the pail, to see a woman with the throat cut, an infant with the smashed skull"

In Rostov, in broad daylight, Armenian terrorists opened fire from the automatic-machine and killed on the threshold of his house colonel Blakhotin.

After successful operation on disarmament of Armenian bands in Chaykend and Martunashen of Khanlar district, the clearing of some villages of Geranboy region and Nagorny Ka­rabakh region of Azerbaijan, on the roads of Russian Federa­tion a carriage of the train Moscow-Baku was exploded in revenge.

The explosion took place on May 30, 1991, not far from Karlaryurt railway station in Dagestan. People of different nationalities died; Darghins, Avars, Kumiks, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Russians, in all 7 women, 5 men. The criminals have not been ascertained yet, but a few months before at the ent­rance to Rostov the railways Simferopol - Baku were blasted, in that case there were no casualties and the criminals were not found.

Metastasis of national terrorism cover the whole country and if out "democrats" do not have enough sober mind for the accusation and prevention of war and terror, then the whole country may plunge into the bloody medley of international civil war.

In Nagorno-Karabakh region and the bordering with Armenia regions of Azerbaijan since the beginning of the conflict till May 29, 1991, 206 men died, including 158 civil citizens, 31 officials of militia, 17 military men and 62 establishments were exploded.

CONCLUSION

All the fact's given here which not exhaustive enough are quite sufficient for recognition of the criminal policy of Arme­nia. This is deliberate mass violation of human rights, ignoran­ce of internal ional law in I he field of Human Rights, govern­mental policy that approves similar actions and disregard of all generally accepted international law rights in the field of gua­rantee of observance human rights and basic freedoms of a person.

The World Community with the help of existing legal inst­ruments should I like effective measures against States, responsible for violation of human rights, peace and security by ap­plication of economic, politic and military sanctions and through the establishment sanctions concerning the states-of­fenders, through the cstabof permanently acted international boby-the International Penal Court. This Court should charge all persons, without any restrictions, who commit or allow cri­minal actions, related to "ethnic cleansing" and genocide.