2024-07-16 18:48:42
Author: Elchin Alioglu
Source: Trend
A discussion of the draft law “On National Minorities” was held in Yerevan with Karen Karapetyan, Deputy Minister of Justice, under the chairmanship of Rustam Bakoyan, Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on Human Rights and Public Affairs of the country’s parliament.
According to the information disseminated by the authorities of Armenia, “the draft law is aimed at ensuring the realization of the rights of national minorities in the country at the legislative level.”
During the discussion, the councilors of the General Directorate of the Council of Europe on issues of democracy and dignity announced the joint position of the Venice Commission and the General Directorate of the Council of Europe on the draft law, and answered questions regarding the guarantee of the rights and rights of national minorities in Armenia.
The discussion and the draft law in general is another fraud of the official Yerevan, an attempt to retouch the truth. It is not worth talking about any multicultural or polyethnic tendencies of the society, which has practically become a mono-ethnic state and considers the members of any ethnic group, nation, nation, except Armenians, as “incomplete people”.
The number of people whom the authorities, mass media and politicians of Armenia loudly and eloquently describe as “national, ethnic and religious minorities” is too small.
According to the latest official statistics, 35,308 Yezidis, 11,911 Russians, 2,769 Assyrians and 2,152 Kurls live in Armenia. In other words, the number of ethnic and religious minorities in Armenia, which has a population of 2.8 million people, according to official statistics, is slightly more than 50,000. This is 0.18 percent of the total population.
At first glance, the members of ethnic and national minorities, whose total number is not even 0.2 percent, generally do not pose any threat to the demographic situation of Armenians, who are the titular ethnos in Armenia.
In countries such as Japan, South Korea, Madagascar, Eswatini or Papua New Guinea, the majority of the population belongs to one nation, which is considered the dominant ethnos. In addition to the listed states, there are other states whose society can be considered monoethnic.
However, in none of them do they behave aggressively towards national, ethnic or religious minorities, whose number of dominant ethnos is too small.
Unlike Armenia.
Armenians, who make up 99, 98 percent of the country’s population, behave very rudely, aggressively and unacceptably rudely towards the few national and religious minorities.
For Armenians in Armenia, representatives of any (!) nation or ethnos other than themselves are “underdeveloped people”, which can be considered a repetition of Adolf Hitler’s national-socialist ideology.
The Nazis considered the total majority of peoples in Germany and Europe “untermensch” (Untermensch), i.e. “incomplete man”, and said that they were “in all respects inferior to the Germans, members of the noble and superior race”.
The same way of thinking prevails in Armenian society. The problem is not only that the national policy of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government is not half-baked, but that national and religious intolerance, which has been ruling in Armenian society for centuries, is bad.
Among the Russians in Armenia, the number of those who want to leave the country or are preparing to do so is increasing. Of course, we are not talking about “relocants” who, after the start of military operations in Ukraine, were mobilized and immediately left Russia to go to different countries of the world, including Armenia, to be sent to the battlefield.
Among the approximately 1.8 million relocators who left Russia, 120,000 people are currently in Armenia and, of course, they cannot be considered a national, ethnic or religious minority from the point of view of statistics.
The relocants who went to Armenia to avoid being forced to be sent to the military operations in Ukraine as part of the Russian army lead a closed life, facing the political, social, etc. of the country where they temporarily live. they do not actively participate in the process.
They are waiting for the end of military operations to leave Armenia, and for this reason they can be considered an amorphous mass from a social point of view.
As for the national, religious and ethnic minorities in Armenia, a completely different, even opposite picture is observed. Local minorities, whose average monthly income is very low, unlike the Russian relocators, want to actively participate in political and social life, but there are serious obstacles to this in informal conditions, in the household format.
The internal politics of Armenia is practically closed to the faces of Yazidis, Assyrians, Russians and Kurds.
The country’s legislation simply made a “concession” to the Yazidis and allocated them a quota of 1 mandate (!) in the parliament.
That mandate is held by Yezidi Rustam Bakoyan, a functionary of the “Civil Agreement” party, which is now in power in Armenia.
Yezidis, who constitute the “most numerous national minority” in Armenia, live mainly in villages. Among the villages inhabited by Yezidis, the largest is the village of Verin Artashat in Ararat province, which has only 4,270 inhabitants.
The majority of Yezidis are engaged in animal husbandry and are the object of constant humiliation, ridicule and ridicule in Armenian society. The main character of the total number of anecdotes in Armenia is “stupid, illiterate, ignorant of urban culture and world events, naive and rustic Yezid”.
Officially, there are 28 high schools, 2 theaters, 2 newspapers, and a radio station for Yazidis in Armenia. There is also a large Yezidi temple called “Guba Mera Divane” in the village of Aghnalich (Agnalli), 30 km from Yerevan.
All this is an image, measures aimed at masking the real situation.
The reality is that Armenians hate Yazidis, they consider them almost “incompetent and incomplete”, “people who can betray the great Armenian nation” at any moment.
However, the Yazidis have done and are doing their best to change this attitude.
When Andranik Ozanyan, the bloodthirsty executioner of Armenia, held a sofa against peaceful, unarmed Ottoman Turks, Kurds, and Azerbaijanis in Ottoman Turkey and Azerbaijan, and mercilessly killed tens of thousands of people, his “right hand” was Yezidi Jahangir Agha.
In 1988-1990, when the Azerbaijanis in Armenia were forced to leave their homeland due to persecution, torture and death threats, the Yazidis were the ones who supported the Armenians.
During the First Karabakh War, hundreds of Yazidis took part in the Armenian armed groups and took an active part in the Armenian occupation of 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s territories.
In the 44-day Second Karabakh War, 2 Yezidi detachments of 500 people fought against the Azerbaijani Army as part of the military formations of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia.
In spite of all this, Yezidis are considered as second or even third class people in Armenia.
According to Narek Salyan, chairman of the Yezidi public organization “Veto” in Armenia, and Sashik Sultanian, head of the Yezidi Human Rights Protection Center, schools for Yezidis in the country operate only on paper: “It is said that there are 28 schools, but in fact one school where teaching is in Yezidi language Yezidi language is taught in those schools only for the sake of “official presence”. The reality is that there is segregation against Yezidis. We are considered incomplete people Although we try to protect our identity, we face very severe discrimination. The authorities of Armenia do not admit it, but chauvinism and national-religious intolerance have reached their peak. The fact is that most of the Yazidis in the country do not see their future in Armenia. “.
The facts about the intolerable attitude towards Yazidi soldiers in the Armenian army are common. The mysterious murder of Yezidis Artur Ajamyan and Yurik Broyan has not yet been investigated, and these crimes have not been given an appropriate legal assessment.
It is a fact that Soviet Armenia was created by the Bolsheviks as a prototype of the Armenian moto-ethnic state. But until the creation of the current artificial state of Armenia, Armenians were continuously transferred from Ottoman Turkey and Qajar Iran to the territories of the Iravan Khanate. The only “obstacle” to the realization of the ideal of a mono-ethnic Armenian state was the Azerbaijanis, who were the original owners and residents of those lands.
Starting from 1948, Azerbaijanis were massively deported and relocated to Azerbaijan precisely because of the “monoethnic Armenia” ideology.
The last forced migration occurred in the 1990s, when more than 280,000 of our compatriots were forced to leave Western Zangezur.
It is for this reason that if Armenia realizes the return of hundreds of thousands of our compatriots and ensures their rights and rights equal to those of other residents, we can talk about national minorities in the neighboring country.
Now, the official Yerevan, which talks about “ensuring the rights of national, ethnic and religious minorities” in Armenia, is trying to create the image of a “multi-ethnic Armenian state”.
The European Union and, in general, the collective West do not want to think about ensuring the return of hundreds of thousands of our compatriots to their lands, West Azerbaijan, where they were forced to migrate.
Instead, they love to talk about the “necessity of the return of Armenians from Karabakh”.
There will be a return to Western Azerbaijan, and Armenia will be considered a country with national, ethnic and religious minorities only in that case.
Whether the European Union likes it or not…