Mass protests in Armenia – rebellion against Sargsyan regime, says Azerbaijani president’s aide

Mass protests in Armenia – rebellion against Sargsyan regime, says Azerbaijani president’s aide
# 25 June 2015 12:39 (UTC +04:00)

Baku – APA. The mass protests in Armenia is the people’s rebellion against the criminal and anti-people regime of Serzh Sargsyan the rise of the social problems to the level of national disaster during that government’s rule, the corruption’s and bribery’s becoming a state policy, the anti-democratic governance methods, the strangling of the people’s voice of truth and their mass leaving the country, Ali Hasanov, the Azerbaijani president’s aide for social and political affairs, told AZERTAC as he was commenting on protests that began in Armenia on June 20.

According to Hasanov, the violent crackdown on the demonstrators was indicative of the anti-democratic situation in this country.

“Hundreds were beaten. Government forces inflicted on them physical injuries and used force against them. Special technical means were widely used to break up the demonstration. Even reporters and human rights defenders faced violence from police and special forces. Out fear of public anger, the Armenian government resorted to the cruelest methods,” noted the president’s aide.

Hasanov said the silence of the Western circles, usually exaggerating and officially commenting on insignificant events in Azerbaijan, is surprising.

“It is noteworthy that the West, that comments on any insignificant events in Azerbaijan at the level of the US Department of State, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and official institutions of European countries, remains silent toward serious violations, ill-treatment against citizens, journalists, human rights activists in Armenia. The US government, which criticizes at the level of the State Department the arrest of a person committing any specific crime in Azerbaijan, commented on the developments in Armenia through its embassy in that country. This attitude was nothing more than an attempt of diverting the attention of the international community from the essence of the matter.

MEPs, criticizing Azerbaijan at the PACE session on the same day, acted as if nothing is happening in Armenia. The Western media superficially covered the developments in Armenia, and international NGOs overlooked this issue. Freedom House, known for its biased attitude toward Azerbaijan, has called Armenia almost a “model of democracy” in a statement it issued on the same day the government crackdown on demonstrators took place.

These are all indicative of the West’s policy of double standards and discrimination. It systematically organizes a campaign to discredit one country but ignores the violent break up of a protest and violation of human rights in a neighboring country,” Ali Hasanov noted.

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