@ChineseEmbinUS
Am I losing my mind or is a country’s official government account tweeting about the jolly perks of locking humans in concentration camps and the lovely mental health benefits of forced sterilization?
Albert Agarunov,
#Azerbaijan
’s National Hero, an ethnic Jew. He died in the battle of
#Shusha
during Karabakh’s occupation in 1992.
Today, 28 years later, Shusha got liberated!
Albert, this one’s for you. I’m not religious, but if there’s a heaven, I hope you’re watching🙏🏼❤️🇦🇿
@michaelb4jordan
Michael, the
@UN
has been demanding Armenia’s withdrawal from Azerbaijan since 1993. You're being used to support an illegal military occupation of another country & Armenia's documented history of ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijani civilians from Karabakh.
#shameonyou
#FreeKarabakh
If you have to ethnically cleanse 90% of the local population, because the other 10% wants to live there exclusively, the only place you’ll get that recognized as “self determination” is in Nazi Germany. For more info see international law.
#NagornoKarabakh
The UN General Assembly - consisting of dozens of Armenian Genocide denying countries - has absolutely no credibility on any issue involving ethnic Armenians. Armenians, who are indigenous to Nagorno-Karabakh, have the right to self determination.
As a Canadian, I’m deeply concerned about the US checkpoint on the Lewiston bridge at Niagara Falls. I expected to just walk through to the United States without a passport. I am outraged.
The United States is deeply concerned that Azerbaijan’s establishment of a checkpoint on the Lachin corridor undermines efforts to establish confidence in the peace process.
“I can't believe I'm standing here.”
Azerbaijani IDP, Ulvi Abasguliyev, in front of his childhood home in Jabrayil, where his family was ethnically cleansed from 27 years ago.
Jabrayil is one of the
#Karabakh
regions that was held under occupation by Armenian forces since 1993.
Today’s coverage of
#NagornoKarabakh
:
“It’s officially a part of
#Azerbaijan
, but is controlled by
#Armenian
forces.”
Control = deliberate ethnic cleansing of 800,000 Azerbaijanis out of these lands by 1993. Here’s a chance for them to be heard on social media 28 years later
@IFRC_Europe
@AzRedCrescent
Outraged and devastated hearing about
#Barda
today.. My deepest condolences to
@IFRC_Europe
& the families of 21 Azerbaijani civilians who died today as a result of Armenia’s terror attack on innocent people. The Armenian government needs to be publicly condemned for terrorism.
@AnaKasparian
Ana, if the US cared about protecting sovereign states, they would have used the last 30 years to end Armenia’s UN-condemned illegal occupation of Azerbaijan. I think you left that part out.
Armenia’s Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, helps dissolve the mass propaganda of the past few days in his latest speech:
“Our assessment is that there is NO direct threat to the civilian population of Karabakh.”
“Information about mass casualties among the population of
An Israeli tourist playing mugham on a traditional kamancha in Baku’s Molokan Gardens. I’m amazed at his grasp of the complexity of Azerbaijani mugham🤍
“I’m an Internally Displaced Person myself. Every time I see these houses, my own house appears in front of my eyes. When I film these scenes, I relive the feelings of the 1 mln Azerbaijani refugees.”
Journalist Siraj Abishov was killed today by a landmine planted in
#Karabakh
.
The film explores Jeffrey Werbock’s lifelong passion for Azerbaijani mugham music & its enduring hold over his cultural imagination, which ended up connecting him - an American from New Jersey - to the 100s of thousands of Azerbaijani refugees expelled from
#Karabakh
by 1993. /1
Azerbaijanis, 700k of them, fled Karabakh on foot & had to live in animal train cars when Armenians expelled them. Villagers got mass murdered by the Armenian army in
#Khojaly
. Armenia investigated NOT ONE war criminal & condemned NO ONE & we had to live with it for 28 years👇🏼
“How dare you talk about coexistence! Your condemnation of war crimes is not sincere!” this is a summary of 99% of Armenian Twitter right now. I am really sorry, you are right, the unapologetic ethnic cleansing Armenians commit is so much better! (1)
These are the roads through which hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijani IDPs, who've been scattered around the country for 28 years, will soon return home.
#Karabakh
#Azerbaijan
No, Neil, it’s not what you report, it’s the how. Both Azerbaijanis & Armenians are condemning war crimes, as they should. AZ gov-t is too & is starting to investigate (as Armenia should).
What you’re doing is finding ways to divide & vilify further to feed a specific audience.
President Zelensky thanks Azerbaijan🇦🇿 for the humanitarian & medical aid sent to Ukraine🇺🇦 and free gas provided to Ukranian ambulances and State Emergency Services at all
@SOCARofficial
gas stations across Ukraine.
#WeStandWithUkraine
@FP_Champagne
I'm an Azerbaijani Canadian and my civilian relatives in Gence, Azerbaijan (the second largest city in Azerb) were indiscriminately bombed by Armenia yesterday and had to hide in shelters. Gence is outside of the
#NagornoKarabakh
region and was entirely civilian populated
The sheer scale of the human tragedy is unthinkable. 700,000 Azerbaijanis had to flee Karabakh on foot & learn to live in tents & animal train cars for over a decade.
Expelled from home by the occupying
#Armenian
forces in early 90s, an entire generation grew up in IDP camps.
The statue of the liberated woman. Baku, Azerbaijan🇦🇿 An act of public removal of the veil by Azerbaijani women in transition to secularism. A heroine, thought I rarely understood her might as a child walking by her statue.
May we all be free to choose our own path.
#MahsaAmini
One of the busiest entertainment districts in Baku, where loud music normally spills into the streets from cafes and restaurants - is silent tonight. Cafes & restaurant across Azerbaijan are turning off their music & closing early, as the nation mourns with Turkiye.
#earthquake
We passed the military checkpoint into Fuzuli, stopped the car & descended into a landscape of desolate beige-coloured minefields. A mine got neutralized nearby & we heard it explode. There was a ruined town behind us. I burst into tears. A disbelief, like we landed on the moon.
Often seeing Armenian nationalists wash over “the 90s” as a mere circumstance, I wonder if they’re engaging in denialism to avoid accountability, or if they’re unaware of the scale of what Armenia’s irredentism had brought here & the trauma it permeated Azerbaijani society with.
Mikhail Gorbachev sent tanks to cities in Georgia (1989), Azerbaijan (1990) & Lithuania (1991) massacring hundreds of civilians & turning these cities into bloodbaths.
Are the westerners praising him unaware of this history or are we this disposable in the eyes of the West?
@CBCWorldNews
What happened in
#Ganje
Azerbaijan yesterday was nothing short of a war crime in the hands of the Armenian government, a cowardly attempt to terrorize innocent civilians that have nothing to do with the conflict zone. This was an abhorrent war crime & will be going to The Hague.
The only female curator of the Museum of Archaeology in Michigan until the 1970s was an Azerbaijani woman, Kamer Aga-Oglu.
She earned her Master's at the
@UMich
in 1938, became a lecturing professor & single-handedly transformed the study of Asian ceramics.
#WomensHistoryMonth
Called our friends in
#Ganja
, Azerbaijan. They’re unharmed. 7 rockets were launched by
#Armenia
on a city that’s 4 hours away from me by car. Can’t even believe I’m writing this. My daughter has school tomorrow and I’m talking about bomb shelters.
#NagornoKarabakh
Two men charged with a violent hate crime attack on a Turkish restaurant in Beverly Hills.
Before the attack, the men, both Armenian American, texted each other about "hunting for Turks" & sought a Turkish restaurant bc "Turkish people would be present."
Under the new peace agreement, Kalbajar is due to return to Azerbaijan after 27 years of occupation. A historic moment.
Prior to the occupation, Kalbajar was 99% populated by Azerbaijanis.
#Armenian
forces expelled all of them by 1993, most ran on foot through the mountains..
As Putin threatens to invade
#Ukraine
, Azerbaijan & Ukraine sign a historic joint declaration, affirming readiness to provide mutual support for each other’s sovereignty & territorial integrity within internationally recognized borders🇦🇿🇺🇦
He has been selling books on Khagani Street since I was a child. We lived just down the road, on Pushkin Street, and my mom would stop by his stand to buy detective novels on our way home from school.
Every time I’m in Baku I visit him to get a book or two, and to indulge in a
Azerbaijan is suing Armenia for reparations under the Bern Convention.
This is what Azerbaijan’s Aghdam city looked like before & after its occupation by Armenia, which lasted 28 years. Aghdam’s just one of the many 🇦🇿 towns that were entirely destroyed during the occupation.
This is the first time any country has sought inter-state arbitration under the Bern Convention. If Azerbaijan wins, it will set a precedent for putting an economic value on biodiversity and environmental destruction.
#biodiversitylitigation
Ukrainians singing the Azerbaijani national anthem at a funeral for an ethnic Azerbaijani soldier who died fighting for Ukraine.
Things “Nazis” do, of course.
Today’s
@amnestyusa
report revealed that despite popular belief, there were actually more Armenian war crime videos than Azerbaijani ones & killing videos were 2 Azeri, 1 Arm. All are unjustifiable & must be persecuted. Isn’t it time for the 🇦🇲 gov-t to condemn & investigate too?
Amnesty Int. report is out: 22 videos confirmed, 3 killings - one by 🇦🇲, two by 🇦🇿. 11 videos of other war crimes committed by 🇦🇲 and 7 by 🇦🇿. 1, 2, 3.... Let’s see how long it will take for Amnesty Int. to be accused of being pro-🇦🇿 and paid by petro$...
I see attendees tweeting that they had no idea who he was & didn’t mean to clap for a Nazi. Alright. My only question is, when he was introduced as a veteran who fought against the Russians during WWII, nobody questioned who the hell fought against the Russians during WWII?
A 98-year old was given standing ovation by the Canadian parliament during Zelensky's speech.
He was hailed as a hero for fighting against the Russians.
Yaroslav Hunk fought for the 14th division of the Waffen SS.
“Most of the refugees were sheltering in the village of Kubatli when the
#Armenian
tanks attacked on Monday morning. The UNHCR said about 250,000 Azerbaijanis have been displaced so far this year & about 1 million since the conflict began.”
@Guardian
1993
#NagornoKarabakh
My nail tech in Baku is a quiet woman of 40. A year ago I told her about my hiking trip to the mountains. She said she grew up in a house in the mountains. I asked if she visits it often. Her eyes watered. I was confused. She said she’s from Karabakh.
#1MillionAzerbaijaniRefugees
⚡️Azerbaijan arrests & charges servicemen responsible for war crimes. Glad to see accountability being taken in the region!
Armenia hasn’t investigated any of their war crimes so far - this sends a backward & dangerous signal that anti Azeri atrocities are permitted in
#Armenia
.
Last night was one of the scariest nights of our lives, and we’ve lived through two wars. My husband and brother-in-law are finally on a train from Kyiv to Lviv.
Khadija Gayibova, circa 1910, the first
#Azerbaijani
female pianist to perform mugham (traditional folk music) on the classical piano, paving way for the glorious Vagif Mustafazade, who’d fuse mugham with American
#jazz
some 40 years later.
#musichistory
#azerbaijan
#arthistory
One of my favourite Ukrainian🇺🇦 bands, Boombox, were scheduled for a North American tour, with a concert in Toronto next week.
A few days ago the entire band joined the Ukrainian defence force to fight Putin’s invasion.
This is their lead singer, Andriy Khlyvnyuk, from Kyiv.
The principal dancer of the Mariinsky Ballet Theatre, Timur Askerov; an IDP from Karabakh. When Timur was 3, his family was expelled from Zangilan, when the region got occupied in 1993.
He’s a graduate of the Baku Choreographic Academy & an Honored Artist of
#Azerbaijan
.
Russia and Iran have been arming & supporting Armenia in their illegal occupation of Azerbaijan for 27 years. It’s a Russian control tactic over post-Soviet regions (Ukraine & Georgia have suffered the same fate). But Turkey supporting 🇦🇿 is suddenly problematic?
#FreeKarabakh
I have no other memories of this day, except the ones of my mother’s eyes wide open, the shouts to remain on the ground, and the strange, out-of-body experience of seeing myself and my brother laying on the parquet floor, so the bullets can’t reach us through the window. 1/4
“Some 30 years ago people lived here. Families lived in this home.. played in this yard, babushkas sat on benches there. This was once a large city.”
Snippet of 🇺🇦 journalist Roman Bochkala’s film on the haunting erasure of Azerbaijan’s
#Aghdam
while under occupation by Armenia.
I fell in love with Lawren Harris’ dream-like paintings of the Canadian north after a school trip to the McMichael Gallery in middle school. Take your kids to art galleries as much as you can. The impressions may last a lifetime.
Two more Azerbaijani civilians blew up on a landmine planted in the Fuzuli region.
Nuru Nuriyev passed away in a hospital moments ago. Elnur Hashimov had both of his legs amputated.
In the span of 8 months we’ve lost 29 innocent people to landmines, including two journalists.
A segment on Azerbaijani state television (AzTV) about Armenian and Azerbaijani coexistence in the village of Dmanisi, Georgia.
Both Arm & Az interviewed refer to each other kindly, say they live as friends, neighbours. One Armenian woman even sings a song in Azerbaijani :)
The Armenian lobby fans mass hysteria about "survival", to veer attention away from Armenia’s illegal occupation of Azerbaijan’s
#NagornoKarabakh
region. The United Nations has been demanding Armenia's withdrawal from Azerbaijan since 1993.
#DontBelieveArmenia
#FreeKarabakh
🇦🇿
@ArmMinasyants
Because we're referencing international law, not using emotive cries to justify an illegal military occupation of another country.
#FreeKarabakh
🇦🇿
Мы же ваш Калининград Köningsberg-ом не называем, правильно?
@mod_russia
соизвольте указывать Азербайджанские города Азербайджанскими названиями. Спасибо.
#Карабах
@mod_russia
Россия признает территориальную целостность #Азербайджан|а и Карабах как его неотъемлемую часть.
Посему призываю вас отказаться от сепарастических названий на картах проведения МО и использовать подлинные наименования.
Некоторые я исправил красным 👇
#Azerbaijan
137 years since the birth of Mammad Amin Rasulzade, the relentless advocate for the rights & freedoms of the Azerbaijani people & the founder of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, 2 years before the Soviets occupied it for the next 70 years..
Forever remembered🇦🇿
#HBDRasulzade
One year ago on the streets of Baku🇦🇿 For the first time in my life we danced and sang songs about Karabakh without the usual longing and pain attached to them, but in celebration.
Today we celebrate a year since the end of the 30-year-long occupation. Zəfər günümüz mübarək!🤍
🇨🇦🇦🇿 “Canada recognizes all UN Security Council resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders.”
BREAKING:
@CanadaFP
response to our petition sponsored by
@Cooper4SAE
:
🇨🇦recognizes all
@UN
SC resolutions on Karabakh, & Azerbaijan's territorial integrity within its int. recognized borders.
🇨🇦recognizes the
#Khojaly
massacre as a terrible tragedy.👇
Member of the Azerbaijani American community, Farukh Mamedov, and the responding Campbell Police Officers are being hailed as heroes.
“Police believe Mamedov's call potentially prevented multiple mass-shootings by Martines across the Bay Area.”
Vile, disgusting, barbaric. I hope all reasonable people speak out against this extremist spectacle of dehumanization, intimidation & incitement of ethnic hatred, which somehow took place in LA, presumably yesterday.
@LAPDHQ
needs to investigate this as a hate crime.
So much love and kindness from Armenians during the “hanging ceremony” of an “Azerbaijani” 🇦🇿
Those condemning trophy park somehow silent about this hanging...
Pianist Turkan Vezir recreates a bittersweet snippet of a 1973 Azerbaijani film “Shusha” which her mother took part in almost 50 years ago.
Turkan’s ancestor Mirza Jamal Javanshir served as a vezir (top minister) of the Karabakh Khans, originating the Vezirov family lineage🇦🇿
Another tragedy in Karabakh.. Today, a 41-year-old Aghdam resident, Zaur Isa oglu Aghayev, blew up on a landmine in the Tezekend village of Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region. He died on the spot from his injuries.
@NikolPashinyan
@Jerusalem_Post
Someone tell him that’s not how the word “albeit” is used in a sentence. I believe what he’s trying to say is “help, I’m losing the war.”
Was honoured to celebrate Turkey’s 98th Republic Day with our friends at the
@TurkEmbOttawa
and Turkey’s Ambassador
@KerimUras
.
On behalf of the Azerbaijani Canadian Community
@azcanet
, thank you for the beautiful reception in Ottawa. Bayraminiz kutlu olsun!🇦🇿🇹🇷
The racist projection of some American commentators and journalists is appalling.
“This feels like Ukraine! We look like Kuwait!”
Enough trying to equate YOUR chaos and turmoil with countries you look down on and know nothing about. This both “feels” and “looks” like America.
Вид из одной страны, которая не Армения на другую страну, которая не Армения, в группе под названием чужого региона (заметка: чужого = не Армения) и все это красиво оформлено Армянским флагом🥰
Слушайте, а вам в своей стране вообще что-то нравится?
Azerbaijan 1989👇🏼 3 months later, Soviet army troops entered Baku & opened fire on civilians, turning the city into a bloodbath.
Russian tanks underneath our 4th floor balcony & the never ending alley of graves covered in red carnations are childhood memories no one should have.