Appeal of the Azerbaijan Trade Union Confederation to Amnesty International
07 Oct 2020
On October 5, Amnesty International issued a biased, distorted, one-sided statement on its website. The Confederation of Trade Unions of Azerbaijan strongly condemns Amnesty International's statement, which is far from the truth, and protests against this statement.
The world community knows that the Armenian armed forces
fired on the civilian population and settlements of the Republic of Azerbaijan,
and no one can deny this fact.
We would like to remind Amnesty International and those
who do not want to see and deliberately distort these realities that there are
people killed and wounded by Azerbaijani civilians and servicemen as a result
of the fire opened by the Armenian armed forces. In cities and districts,
villages and settlements inhabited by civilians, civilian objects, houses,
hospitals, school buildings, agricultural areas are regularly fired upon. Since
September 27, 27 civilians have been killed, 141 people have been injured and
houses and infrastructure have been destroyed.
Turning a blind eye to the reality, we want to inform the
organization that large industrial cities such as Ganja, Mingachevir, Beylagan,
Tartar, Goranboy, Barda and other regions of Azerbaijan have been fired upon by
missiles and devices banned by the Armenian armed forces. You probably do not
understand the extent to which Europe's energy security is threatened by
Armenia's launch of cassette missiles into the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil
pipeline.
The Azerbaijani Armed Forces are fighting on their
territory to restore the country's territorial integrity and strike only at
enemy targets. The army does not open fire on civilian objects and the
population and does not fully use ammunition.
In our opinion, it is appropriate to remind you of some
facts engraved in the bloody memory of history. You have either forgotten the
facts about the fact that the historical lands of Azerbaijan have been under
Armenian occupation for nearly 30 years, thousands of people, old people,
infants, women have been brutally killed, and the fate of hundreds of our
hostages is still unknown contradictory, not interested in facts. If you were
interested, you would react to the Khojaly massacre in 1992, which shook the
whole progressive world. Such a one-sided, biased position hurts you in the
first place. At the very least, it discredits your organization. We are already
accustomed to your pro-Armenian position.
If you want to restore the rating of the organization you
are trying to promote as a herald of truth and justice, we advise you to take
an objective approach to events and adhere to international standards, and not
to fulfill political orders, even if it is late.
The next aggression of Armenia, which began on September
27, violates the fundamental norms and principles of international law: UN
Security Council Resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884 of 1993, which demand the
unconditional full withdrawal of the Armenian Armed Forces from the occupied
territories of Azerbaijan. This is a gross violation of international
humanitarian law, including the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their protocols.
Maybe you don't know about these resolutions!
On behalf of the Azerbaijan Trade Union Confederation, we
would like to once again draw the attention of the leadership of Amnesty
International to the fact that such a biased and biased approach to information
is not appropriate for an organization with the mission of a human rights
defender, and your actions only create hatred. Be with truth and justice.
