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Thread 🧵 on foreign news outlets in the period of the #FirstKarabakhWar reporting on advancement of Armenian troops deep into Azerbaijani territory and mass atrocities the population’s exile which they’ve caused. 1/10
The @guardian article describes #Armenian advancement into #Zangilan district of Azerbaijan. Despite of the UN’s call to stop the offensive, Armenian forces continued. The #UN officials rejected a death toll of 3.000 and reported that at least 10.000 have been killed. 2/10 
Description of Azerbaijani civilians being massacred in the snowy mountains near #Khojaly. What’s horrible is that the Armenian soldiers didn’t just enter the city and massacred civilians but they’ve also chased the civilians who were trying to hide in forests. 3/10
Just read the @sfchronicle article by @RepAdamSchiff & @RepSpeier. First, during decades in Congress, these esteemed politicians have never said a single word about illegal occupation of 20% of #Azerbaijan’s lands by #Armenia & 1 million forcibly displaced #Azerbaijanis. 1/13
Invasion, total ethnic cleansing & nearly 30-year-long occupation of #Azerbaijan’s sovereign territory by #Armenia was well-documented, incl. by @UN Security Council resolutions and successive US administrations, starting with #Clinton Administration. 2/13
Brutal massacres against #Azerbaijani civilian population by Armenian troops, incl. the #Khojaly Genocide of 1992, which @HRW called the #largest massacre in the conflict#, are also well documented. 3/13
❗️(1/1) In order to be entitled to exercise a remedial secession there should be 2 grounds:
1) responsible national administration must have committed most severe, massive and systematic HR violations and discriminations towards the ethnic group or minority;
1) responsible national administration must have committed most severe, massive and systematic HR violations and discriminations towards the ethnic group or minority;
(1/2)
2) Situation must have reached a point at which such rights can only be ensured by means of secession as a last resort.
Did Armenians had a right to remedial secession then?
2) Situation must have reached a point at which such rights can only be ensured by means of secession as a last resort.
Did Armenians had a right to remedial secession then?
(1/3)
Considering prior neighborly relations between Azerbaijanis & Armenians and participation of Arm|s in political as well as cultural affairs, exercise of such a right was obviously out of question.
Considering prior neighborly relations between Azerbaijanis & Armenians and participation of Arm|s in political as well as cultural affairs, exercise of such a right was obviously out of question.
It's not hard for me to mesh my support for #Armenia in the #Nagornokarabakh conflict with being a western-raised and trained #Humanrights lawyer. The short answer is that I wish to stop #EthnicCleansing. The long answer is below. (1/14)
First, I reject that neutrality is the "proper" response. Neutrality is appropriate when one is ignorant. But choosing to remain in ignorance isn't praiseworthy. It is more intellectually honest to learn and draw a conclusion. (2/14)
This article shows how one can have a thoughtful "both sides" discussion instead of the thoughtless one we typically see from int'l media and orgs. anthropology.utk.edu/the-violence-o… (3/14)
1 MLN is total number of #Karabakh war refugees & IDMs from all sides (1988-1994). 1 mln Azeri refugees is false.
Sources: official #Azerbaijan sources, UNHCR & official census.
In uncertain cases, maximum AZ number is taken.
Azeris - 624,463
#Armenia|ns - 360,000
#DataViz
Sources: official #Azerbaijan sources, UNHCR & official census.
In uncertain cases, maximum AZ number is taken.
Azeris - 624,463
#Armenia|ns - 360,000
#DataViz
Total number of Meskhetian Turks arrive in #Azerbaijan was 50,000. Here I mentioned them all as move to #Karabakh, while actual number is times less, estimated to 2000 move to #Khojaly, some to #Shushi. If we do not, the Azeri total number is 624,463 - 48,000 = 576,463
Also lots of people flee #Azerbaijan & #Armenia between 1979 & 1989 censuses, before 1988 is not considered, which may be a significant number from both sides.
