Attention, children!
Another fake by the Armenian propaganda

ANALYTICS  18 January 2023 - 18:44

“Azerbaijanis tried to intimidate children returning to Karabakh”, wrote former Armenian Ombudsman (Human Rights Commissioner) Arman Tatoyan on his Facebook page. The informational duck was immediately picked up by the Armenian media and was all over their pages.

How about we dig deeper into it? “Yesterday the so-called ‘eco-activists’, but in fact agents of the government of Azerbaijan...” writes one publication. Already interesting. How do you know that they are agents? Absolutely speculative conclusion.

Let's continue reading: “...committed acts of intimidation on 19 children returning from Goris [Gorus] to Stepanakert [Khankendi], with their covered faces, breaking into a car transporting children, and displaying frankly cynical behavior”.

Meanwhile, according to information available to us, a representative of the Azerbaijani press actually boarded a bus with children and made a video recording. Let’s add an important fact: the car belonged to Russian peacekeepers and the Azerbaijani reporter could not have “burst into it” without prior coordination with them. The footage clearly shows the peacemaking representative opening the door and letting a person with a camera into the car. It is not known whether the journalist intended to distribute the video or whether it was accidentally leaked to the Internet, but somehow it is there. Anyone who wants to search the browser can view the footage from the bus with Armenian children and make sure that no intimidation and other signs of cynical behavior Azerbaijani reporter did not allow himself.

Meanwhile, as the Armenian media insist, “because of the provocative actions of the Azerbaijanis in the car there was a stampede in which one child “having lost consciousness”.

And again, let’s review the video to make sure there was no stampede. It should also be noted that the Armenian press is not unanimous about this incident. So, another edition does not write about the stampede, but continues, pardon the pun, to press the topic with the child, supposedly having lost consciousness, and does it so absurdly, which causes confusion.

“... Then the children were filmed unlawfully and then cynically distributed (with open faces) in the Azerbaijani press and social networks. Because of these provocative actions, one of the children even lost consciousness”...

I really don’t want to be insensitive about any child-related issue, but the very content of this passage arouses contradictory feelings: it is obvious that the case is presented in this way for the desired effect, It’s like one of the kids passed out after the footage was released to the press and social media.

“As a result of actions of the Russian peacekeepers they were removed from the car, the car continued its way”.

It should be made clear that no Azerbaijani journalist was allowed to leave this car, however, he had no intention or desire to stay on the bus. Of course, he did not plan or commit any illegal acts. As already mentioned, the reporter entered the car with the consent of the peacekeepers.
“Then, while passing through a blocked section of the road, the Azerbaijanis were demonstratively shouting in the direction of cars carrying children”...

Another forgery. Azerbaijani eco-activists sometimes chant slogans toward the Russian peacekeeping post. This is part of the demonstration. If the orientation of our action in the space coincided with the direction of movement of the car with children, this does not mean that this particular transport was the recipient of slogans.

“This fact was recorded by Karabakh’s Human Rights Defender, Gegham Stepanyan”, wrote Tatoyan.

Recorded? Show us. Where are the photo and video documents testifying to the intimidation of children?

“I myself am happy to be lied to”

The described fake is not the first time in a series of disinformation spread by the Armenian propaganda machine and will certainly not be the last. One time we apparently turn off the gas to Karabakh Armeniansm, another time the Internet. It is almost impossible to stop this stream of slander. What, however, can be expected from the society yelling about a “blockade”, while only lazy is not convinced that all cars with humanitarian supplies, as well as ambulances, freely pass, and there is no shortage of food and medicine in Khankendi!
But this factory of lies has its customers. These customers cannot prove anything - primarily because they are the customers of this product. We are talking about certain pro-Armenian forces in the West using and broadcasting these fakes for the purposes of their anti-Azerbaijan and anti-Turkish agenda. Then the stern senator from the prairies will raise his voice in defense of “Artsakh”, the sweet mayor from the Provence will wiggle his warning finger in front of Azerbaijan. It is important to note, that Azerbaijan does not allow itself to act reactively, to react to each attack. It is more expensive to treat everyone. We act proactively, by creating the agenda and building partnerships with the real power centers, ensuring a strong position on the international stage. And everyone else, like Dr Aibolith, has to ask politely to hang up.

“All this would be funny...”

If we think about it, it is the Armenian side that allows for unethical, immoral, and blasphemous actions. Is it not a sacrilege to use children for propaganda purposes, making them hostages of the vile policy of Turkophobia and enmity with neighbours! Is it not blasphemous to call the working Lachin road “dear life” and refer to some inconveniences connected with the eco-protests as a “blockade”, while the residents of (the truly blockaded Leningrad) are still alive, for whom the blockade meant not “disconnected Internet”, and the circumstances are so terrible, they can’t read them without shuddering!

For people that are objectively inclined, the whining is becoming unbearable. We still have to live with this noise, and therefore it should be treated as a routine – reply when needed, and when required ignore. And for the Armenian children, we truly feel sorry.

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