Heads of religious confessions in Azerbaijan appeal to international community

  28 March 2018    Read: 1541
Heads of religious confessions in Azerbaijan appeal to international community

Heads of religious confessions in Azerbaijan have issued a joint appeal to the world’s religious leaders, parliaments and international organizations. 

The appeal was signed by Chairman of the Caucasian Muslims Office Sheikh-ul Islam Allahshukur Pashazadeh, Archbishop of Baku and Azerbaijan Alexander; Head of the Community of Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan Melih Yevdayev, and Head of the Albanian-Udi Christian Community in Azerbaijan Robert Mobili, AzVision.az reports. 

In their appeal, the religious leaders urge the international community to give legal assessment to the acts of genocide carried out against the Azerbaijani people by Armenia. 

The appeal reads that in 1905 and 1918 Armenian extremists carried out an appalling massacre of tens of thousands of Azerbaijanis in Baku, Nakhchivan, Garabagh, Shamakhy, Lankaran, Guba and other areas, destroying residential areas, historical and cultural monuments, mosques, churches and synagogues.

“In the 1920s, Zangazur, which was historical Azerbaijani land, was annexed to Armenia with no basis. In addition, an Armenian autonomy was established in Nagorno-Karabakh. Between 1948 and 1953, hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis were driven out of their homes. That’s how the present-day mono-ethnic Armenian Republic came into existence in the ancestral land of Azerbaijanis. In the second half of the 1980s, Armenian nationalists began a new series of aggression and ethnic cleansing against Azerbaijanis as a result of Armenian lobbyists pressuring the USSR leadership.”

 


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