We, as a nation, must get together and give a name to what the Armenians have done, what we have faced

Our villages and cities were razed to the ground, all property was destroyed, cemeteries were destroyed, the bodies and remains of the dead were scattered across the wastelands. We have faced an unprecedented event in history. We must find a name for what the Armenians have done. So far, we have not yet been able to give a name. It should fully reflect the picture that we saw. Such words as robbery and occupation do not fit.

Many people call it Armenian fascism. Although this name is quite understandable in the former Soviet space, it does not sound abroad in the sense in which we perceive it. The operation to exterminate the Jewish people and Soviet prisoners of war in Nazi camps is a much more serious mega-crime than fascism, and its name is Holocaust or genocide.

But it is known from history that the German fascists created their own bodies of local self-government in the territories of the former Soviet Union or Europe that they had occupied and did not destroy the territories there (with the exception of the theater of operations) where the local population worked and was employed. Therefore, the name fascism does not match what we are facing. We know from history that the occupied territories have never been wiped off the face of the earth, and the entire population was not killed or expelled. The occupation at all times did not pursue such goals.

We have heard about barbarians and vandals, but we do not know whether they committed more or less atrocities than the Armenians. Occupations have existed since the beginning of human history, and the information provided to us by the letters BC did not tell about the erasure of the occupied territories from the face of the earth or the destruction of their population.

Nebuchadnezzar II (in Soviet history he was called Nebuchadnezzar) captured Jerusalem in 598 BC.  and expelled the Jews from there, scattering them all over the world, a certain part of the Jews remained in the Jewish kingdom. But what we encountered did not happen in the 6th century BC, but in the 21st century in front of the entire modern world. It is clearly seen that in the occupied territories specially organized detachments of Armenians were engaged in wiping out towns and villages from the face of the earth, as well as martyrs lying in the land. This activity has been an integral part of the policy - never to leave these lands. It was based on the policy of not leaving any Azerbaijani traces on these lands either above or below the ground…

Information that marble tombstones on the graves were removed during the occupation, there were even cases of their sale. But those who visited the graves after the war faced massive cases of digging up bodies from graves and scattering them over wastelands. Preliminary evidence suggests that the groups are working in four directions here.

• Groups that destroy cemeteries

• Groups that remove the dead from the grave and remove their gold teeth

• Groups that dismantle and sell marble tombstones

• Groups that take the dead out of the grave and throw them out

As noted above, history has experienced many invasions and witnessed how the occupation zone was destroyed during the war, and people died. But History has not yet come across the fact when the invaders pulled the dead from their graves and scattered them across the steppes.

Armenians started looting back in 1991, when they occupied Azerbaijani villages in Karabakh. At that time the first marauders came, among whom women were very active. During the atrocities in Khojaly, when the bodies of murdered women and children were lying in the streets, the Armenians loaded them into cars and took away blankets and mattresses.

Even during the 1992-1993 occupation, the Armenians, first of all, looked for valuables in their homes. The theft of valuables, clothes, blankets and mattresses, dishes, cups and plates were the business of the first marauders of that time. Back in the summer of 1993, when our village was not yet occupied, they unknowingly entered our village and, seeing the soldiers and getting wounded, fled. Basically, in Kalbajar and Gubadli, the most looted carpets, dishes, blankets, furniture. It is no coincidence that the Armenians also organized several exhibitions entitled "Karabakh carpets".

Demolishing and selling iron gates and iron roofs after looting household items was the most lucrative Armenian business in 1994-1996. These iron products were bought not by Soviet, but by foreign countries. At the same time, planks and columns were considered the leading construction business at the time. In the years when there was no gas and electricity in Armenia, forests, building boards and building materials were used as energy sources. Gubadli and Zangilan were plundered by the inhabitants of Kafan and Goris. The construction materials of all the villages of Fizuli and Jabrayil were used to build houses in former Martuni and Hadrut, as well as to build defensive structures in that zone. The destruction of houses in Fizuli and Jabrayil from the face of the earth is also explained by this fact. Stones and cubes were used to build trenches and fortifications, boards and columns were burned, and copper and iron were sold.

Are the iron gates of 140 000 houses  sold as scrap metal included in the count? After they had plundered everything, the Armenians went to the cemetery to rob the dead ...

The last big business was the rails of the Horadiz-Mindjevan railway line. Serzh Sargsyan himself supervised this work. According to the Armenian press, one of the criminal cases initiated by Pashinyan's team against Serzh Sargsyan concerned an unknown direction in which the money from the sale of these rails was spent. The point is not at all why the rails were dismantled and sold; the point is where and on what this money was spent.

Directly the money from the sale of these rails went, according to Sargsyan, to buy weapons. Pashinyan requires documentation. To which Sargsyan replies that the weapon was acquired in a roundabout way.

This issue has caused a great resonance in the international community. Property in the occupied territory was sold by the president of the occupying country, and weapons were acquired with this money illegally. Sargsyan himself admitted this.

 I believe that Azerbaijani officials should voice this issue from the political rostrum, and Azerbaijani law enforcement agencies should investigate this case.

It turns out that now we are reconstructing the Horadiz-Mindjevan railway sold by Serzh Sargsyan, and in return we are giving Armenia the right to use this railway. Shouldn't we ask Armenia where the rails went?