Promise of $30 for joining rally in Khankendi Methods of illegal regime

The illegal Armenian seperatist regime has scheduled a rally to be held in Azerbaijan's Khankendi city on December 25.

Armenia's First Lady, wife Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Anna Hakobyan, has urged to stop the illegal actions reigning in Armenian-populated Azerbaijan's Khankendi region.

"One day we finally need to stop hiding behind children and 18-20-year-old soldiers. And the sooner that day comes, the sooner our tragedies will end", the Yerevan-based newspaper Hraparak wrote, commenting on a post on Hakobyan's official Facebook page. 

She wrote, that "On December 25, 2020 the Armenian media was flooded with pieces with the following headline: 'Scandal in Stepanakert. At the demand of Artsakh people the tents and the Christmas tree, set up by the Anna Hakobyan Foundation, are dismantled'. And indeed, the Christmas tree and the event pavilions for children were dismantled, and the event was canceled. In short, a more selfish behavior of adults towards children seemed impossible to imagine".

And now, as Hakobyan notes, parents organize various tearful actions involving children and spread all this around the world to arouse pity. Parents make small children hold banners with the following content: "Open the road to life, I want to live", "I miss my carefree Artsakh", "We want to live here", "Artsakh is and always will be", "I want nothing from Father Christmas, only peace" and so on.

Meanwhile, children are also expected to participate in today's protest.

As Caliber.Az previously noted, the illegitimate regime is trying to attract by hook or by crook as many state employees, members of the remnants of the armed groups and their families as possible to the rally.

According to the latest information, teachers and doctors have been warned that they will be fired if they do not attend the rally. Students have also been warned that they will face serious consequences if failing to show up. Participants in the rally have been promised free internet packages to take pictures from the rally site. Members of the "law enforcement agencies" were ordered to take part in the rally in civilian clothing.

Filming of the rally was entrusted to a company with the request to record a film, instructing that it should be shot from such an angle as to "demonstrate maximum mass participation".

Other information that Caliber.Az received indicates that special buses have been allocated to bring residents to the central square in Khankendi from surrounding villages, with each participant being promised $30-40 for his attendance.