Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly made a statement full of prejudice and slander against Azerbaijan.
She made groundless accusations that Armenians were allegedly forced to leave the Garabagh region of Azerbaijan, demonstrated a position that contradicts Azerbaijan's territorial integrity and serves to create tension in the region.
However, the Canadian minister, who refers to the principle of "self-determination" to solve a problem that no longer exists, would rather deal with her shameful history than teach Azerbaijan a lesson.
Let's take a look at the not-so-distant past, 2009. During that period, the local community of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan found 751 graves, mostly of children. It was both a long-discussed event at the time and a clear example of Canada's genocide against the indigenous people of these territories.
Everything started after the arrival of the European colonists in the region after the 16th century. The British, French, and Spanish empires occupied these territories, implemented a policy of discrimination, assimilation, and genocide of the local people, and adopted their own culture.
All this was one of the laws of the harsh European colonialism, which was itself one of the cruel laws. They not only came themselves, but also brought with them various epidemic diseases, forced migration, as well as wars.
As a result of this policy, the peoples who historically lived here currently make up only 5 percent of the population.
But the horror does not end there. Apart from the arbitrariness promoted by the Catholic Church, the sexual abuse of children forcibly taken from their parents by priests is among the most horrific. The priests who subjected them to inhuman treatment did not stop there, they did not hesitate to deprive the local population of their national identity. By force...
Some time ago, the unknown mass graves in these areas are perhaps the most important of the bitter consequences of that policy. This policy has a name: assimilation...
The main goal of this approach, which was founded in the 18th century, was to subjugate the indigenous population to the identity of the Canadian-European state during the colonial period. In this way, the factors of religion and education were skillfully used. Because there could not be a more effective means of subjugating a nation and turning the representatives of that nation into subjects than these two factors listed above. In this way, administrative means were also used. They even adopted a number of laws to subjugate the "wild Indians" in their words. Violent rule deprived local peoples of national costumes, dances and other traditions, and granted a number of very serious privileges to the population with Christian roots.
As a clear example of the overt application of colonial mentality, the educational system was intended to educate the "savage" communities and integrate them into the "higher civilization" of Canada. For this purpose, thousands of children from the local population were forcibly taken from their families and placed in church-run boarding schools, they were particularly drawn into religious missionary activities by priests and nuns.
Canada's boarding schools were focused on the assimilation of children of indigenous peoples. One of them was the Bishop Horden Memorial School, where boys and girls were sexually abused by Catholic priests. According to Catholic doctrine, priests could not marry or have relations with either the same or the opposite sex. But the priests in this school targeted young boys and girls. As seen from this, in today’s terms, they were pedophiles.
The implementation mechanism of the assimilative laws adopted by Canada resembles the policies directed at Jews during World War II in Nazi Germany. However, unlike Germany, those who committed these acts here were left unpunished and did not even face an analogue of the Nuremberg trials.
The law adopted in 2008 revealed even more horrific facts. A special commission found that between 1883 and 1996, 150,000 indigenous children were subjected to assimilation in 150 boarding schools: they were either raped, killed, or taken to unknown destinations.
The Canadian government later obstructed the investigation of these facts by all possible administrative and legal means.
Eventually, the commission also ceased its work. However, the local population continued this process and succeeded in finding a brotherhood cemetery for 215 children in British Columbia.
Now, a state with such a shameful historical past accuses Azerbaijan of violating the rights of Armenians in Garabagh. It is strange that this state, which was once a puppet of European colonialists, is doing this.
Canada's Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly is a typical Armenian supporter with a dirty past. Now, such a person makes biased statements against Azerbaijan and intends to cast a shadow over actions aimed at promoting peace in the region.
Official Baku's response to these claims was delayed. Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned such a biased approach and stated that the Canadian Minister distorted the facts.
It has been noted that Azerbaijan restored its full sovereignty in the Garabagh region in 2023, ending the illegal presence of Armenian armed forces in the area, and the separatist regime dissolved itself.
The Canadian Minister would do well to acknowledge the statements from official Baku based on facts and international law, face the truth directly, and not become a captive of the Armenians' fabricated history and false “genocide” narratives. Otherwise, the realities of the true genocide, discrimination, and assimilation that have been perpetrated against indigenous peoples by her country for centuries will be thrown back in her face at any moment.
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