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Ganira Pashayeva: â€œCrimes against Azerbaijanis, committed during Stalinâ€™s regime, still go onâ€

28 April 2010 21:54 (UTC +04:00)

Strasbourg. Fuad Gulubeyli â€“ APA. Member of Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation at PACE Ganira Pashayeva delivered an extended speech at the discussions of PACE President MÃ¶vlud Ã‡avuÅŸogluâ€™s report on the â€œvictims of the great famine (Holodomor) in the former USSRâ€, APA reports quoting its European correspondent.

G. Pashayeva noted that the population of the former USSR still suffers from the results of mass human rights violation based on the serious crimes that the totalitarian communist and Stalin regimes committed against the peoples.

â€œToday we talk about the people who were killed as a result of the great famine (Holodomor). Millions of people became the victims of Stalinâ€™s regime crimes. The current discussions can be acknowledged, even if itâ€™s belated, as international communityâ€™s protest and condemnation toward mass violation of human rights, crimes, and tragedy. Yes, for the purpose of prevention the crimes like this, we have to talk, condemn, and commemorate the victims of the tragedy. Besides bolstering up all proposals, noted in the report, Iâ€™d like also to underline something else. As the Parliamentary Assembly we have to condemn all other crimes, like mass violation of the human rights, committed during the governance of the communist and Stalin regimes in the former USSR. It should be noted, in some republics of the empire, during the ruling of the totalitarian Stalin regimes, in 1937, tens of thousands of educated men, scientists, writers and poets were shot. There was just one reason. All these men protested against the policy targeted to eradication their nationsâ€™ history, language and culture, they were thinking brain and speaking tongue of the nations. Just at that very years thousands of Azerbaijani educated men, scientists, writers, in a word the great part of nationâ€™s thinking brain was destructed and the members of their families were sent into exile to Siberian steppes, where they faced horrible hardships, by Stalinâ€™s regimeâ€, - said Ganira Pashayeva.
In her speech the orator touched upon peopleâ€™s violated rights as well. â€œIâ€™d like to commemorate the peoples that were subjected to deportation, by filling in the train, from their hearths and native lands within few days as well as millions of people that became the victims of mass violation of human rights. Most of them died on the way to Siberia, the rest of them died as a result of horrible famine and disease. The outcomes of the tragedy, which the Crimean Tatars and the Crimean Turks faced, still go on. Despite they got a right to repatriate but they still face a lot of problems and suffer. Another people are Meskhetian Turks who were deported from their hearths. I am a representative of the nation that suffered from the crimes of Stalinâ€™s regime. In 1920, one of the oldest lands of Azerbaijan Zangazur was separated by force from Azerbaijan and incorporated into Armenia. Due to the totalitarian regime of Stalin, 100 thousands of Azerbaijanis were deported from Armenia in 1948-53. They were deprived of their homes and other properties. The results of those crimes go on today. Those people are still unable to come back their homes as Armenian authorities donâ€™t allow them to do it. Thousands of people pass away losing all hopes to come back to their native lands and hearths. Can there be more terrible tragedy. I call you on not to be indifferent to the fate of this people and boost them in their repatriation. As it was said in the resolution, we have to study the history in order to prevent such crimes in the future. Todayâ€™s disputes serve for itâ€, - she said.
At the end of her speech, Ganira Pashayeva proposed to commemorate â€œHolodomorâ€ victims with minute of silence.