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The West of “European Values” has accepted the cancellation of a democratic state and an ethnicity

The final invasion occurred quickly and with hundreds of Orthodox Christians killed by the attackers. Armenia, led by a former human rights lawyer, had no alternative but to save thousands of its citizens from death by handing over their enclave in Nagorno-Karabakh to the brutal forces of Ilham Aliyev, the leader of Azerbaijan, as reports, for example, the Telegraph . We have the case, perhaps unique, of the cessation of a democratic state, and it will be January 1, 2024.

The defense of Nagorno-Karabakh had been entrusted to Russia by the UN Security Council: because a country fought so strenuously and bloodyly by the West should have taken its place by defending a minority, which, among other things, refers to a state that condemned the invasion of Ukraine? At the first available opportunity the Russian contingent withdrew, among other things, however, losing the commander.

Now 120,000 citizens are now at the mercy of a state that they ancestrally consider their enemy and which, historically, has massacred them. The response was obviously an exodus: 60 thousand Armenians have already left Nagorno Karabakh and the others will probably follow them as soon as possible. An ancient, thousand-year-old culture has been erased, all before the eyes of the West.

Nagorno-Karabakh is a small mountainous country in the clouds, inhabited by Armenians for many centuries. He was the first in 301 AD to adopt Christianity. Hundreds of Orthodox churches and their mysterious ancient tombstones (many now defaced or demolished by attackers), attract visitors from Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, who undertake the 6-hour journey across Mount Ararat to Stepanakert, the center of democracy of Karabakh which was off this week. The journey is just 20 minutes by plane from a modern airport. But the planes haven't flown for years because the Azerbaijani government threatens to shoot them down.

The country fell to Russia in the early 19th century, and demographic evidence from the first census of that time shows that it was all Armenian and that the area should have been assigned to this state when Stalin divided the territory in 1920. Instead , he gave it to Azerbaijan and the mistake was not corrected until the outbreak of civil war after the collapse of the USSR.

The Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh – who still represent the vast majority of the population – first voted to join Armenia, the wisest solution, but then opted for independence. The war had begun with pogroms of Azerbaijanis in Sumgait and Baku. But over time a local Karabakh defense force took over. The fighting was brutal. With ethnic hatred on both sides. The siege of Stepanakert was brutal, people only survived thanks to supplies brought along a narrow road – a humanitarian corridor – from Armenia, which Azerbaijan closed earlier this year.

Nagorno-Karabakh won the war in 1994 and declared, like Kosovo, its right to self-determination. For the next quarter of a century it governed itself with the help of Armenia. It did so, quite reasonably, with fair elections and democratic institutions such as an independent judiciary – as I discovered when investigating the situation in the country for a court case in 2014. It was not, as many journalists claimed last week, a country of “ Armenian separatists” but of an Armenian people whose ancestors had lived on these highlands for centuries and who had fought and won, for a quarter of a century, the right to resist a brutal dictator. But there have been many Azerbaijani provocations on the border – the “Line of Control”.

The Security Council, in a completely absurd way, entrusted the security of the enclave to Russia which did not take its tasks seriously and in 2020 war broke out again. Armenia voted at the United Nations to condemn Russia for attacking Ukraine and as a result Putin decided to end all support and take revenge. The final straw came this month, when Armenia joined the International Criminal Court (ICC) which is prosecuting Putin for the kidnapping of Ukrainian children. Last week the Kremlin silenced the Armenian ambassador and launched what it described as a "hard protest": he threatened to withdraw the security mandate to protect Nagorno-Karabakh, and this was the green light for the Azeri invasion.

The EU boasts of “European Values” cited almost every day in empty proclamations. Then, faced with the cancellation of an ethnically and historically well-identified state in Europe, with the marriage of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, it turns the other way and pretends nothing happened. Relations with Turkey, an ally of the Azeris, are too important. Azerbaijan itself is on its way to being one of the Union's main suppliers of natural gas. In the end, what times are one hundred or two hundred thousand Armenian Christians expelled from their homes?

Now every time you hear the words “European values” you are entitled to laugh, so as not to cry. The only values ​​relevant for European countries are the banking values ​​of the various Commission officials. After having witnessed the annihilation of a democratic state without saying a word, while the war in Ukraine is happily fueled, the word "Value" only makes sense in economics.


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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/loccidente-dei-valori-europei-ha-accettato-la-cancellazione-di-uno-stato-democratico-e-di-una-etnia/ on Sun, 01 Oct 2023 09:00:30 +0000.