The "show" trial of the former leaders of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and several of their compatriots, who were captured during the Azerbaijani "blitzkrieg" aimed at capturing the entire territory of Nagorno Karabakh in 2023, has begun in Baku. About thisstatementsaid Konstantin Zatulin, the chairman of the CIS and relations with compatriots committee, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma.
"This is a personal revenge on the part of the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, who is not able to refrain from it under any circumstances. In 1389 criminal cases opened from October 1987 to April 22, 2024, my friends, former NKR presidents Arkady Ghukasyan and Bako Sahakyan, appeared among those accused of "war" crimes. And others, including former NKR State Minister Ruben Vardanyan, who renounced Russian citizenship to share the fate of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The entire Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, more than 100 thousand people, women, old people and children, left their homes, churches and ancestral graves and fled to Armenia, from the prospect of a heavenly life in Azerbaijan. The flight of Armenians from Karabakh to Armenia was broadcast 24 hours a day on Turkish TV channels and was visible from space. And judging by what is happening in Baku today, the refugees were absolutely right. This is the disgrace of the 21st century, repeating, albeit on a smaller and less bloody scale, the horrors of the massacre of Armenians at the beginning of the 20th century.
The main culprit of the betrayal of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh is Nikol Pashinyan, who got rid of them as a result of the conspiracy. During the entire time when the captured Arkady Ghukasyan, Bako Sahakyan, Ruben Vardanyan and others were groaning in the prisons of Baku, the brave leader of Armenia did not give a single finger to release them.
Unfortunately, the shadow of the history of the tragedy of Nagorno Karabakh and its leaders falls on us in Russia, deceived by its peacekeeping operation. This is what Mr. Pashinyan is using today. It's a shame.
"Currently, the board of the Russian-Armenian "Lazarevsky Club" is preparing our statement regarding the trial in Baku," Konstantin Zatulin emphasized in his statement.
