Blogger slams Armenian revanchists for spreading slander about Azerbaijan

Armenian blogger Natalie Aleksanyan has said that revanchists spread slander about Azerbaijan.

“I notice a new, dangerous trend in the media sphere of Armenia and I want to talk about it. Opposition channels distribute materials in which Karabakh Armenians say that before or during the resettlement they were subjected to numerous tortures by Azerbaijanis,” Caliber.Az quotes the blogger as saying on her Facebook page.

"My speech does not refer to these people, I have nothing to tell them because I know that Karabakh Armenians still have many unresolved problems. But my speech refers to the Armenian media themselves, which in exchange for solving these unresolved problems force people to give false testimonies about torture.

These readings are false for the following reasons. I talked with many Karabakh Armenians, and none of them even hinted at the bad attitude of the Azerbaijanis towards them. I don’t mean the footage of the Azerbaijani media, where Azerbaijanis distributed bread and water to departing Armenians and communicated with them in a friendly manner. No, I refer to my personal experience, because I am sure that if the Karabakh Armenians who talked to me were really tortured, then the first topic of our conversation would be about this torture.

In addition, I ask a simple question: what prevented these people from telling about the torture the second they set foot on the land of Armenia? Why did they start talking about torture a month later? Were the Karabakh people afraid to tell the truth? Of course not.

Thus, I am convinced that what is happening is a diversion against the statehood of Armenia. The revanchist forces do not give up hope for eternal war and, spreading such cheap misinformation, are trying to create a public mood inside the country that will be against peace with the Azerbaijanis. In conditions of absolute inefficiency of the state apparatus, the forces of war are reigniting hatred, using the Karabakh Armenians who were robbed and humiliated by them as a tool.

At the same time, I am surprised and horrified by the fact that this is done by forces belonging to the opposition field. What are they going to do, and what is the government going to do? Is there no danger of a new war and losses here?", Aleksanyan writes.