How Armenians of Canada exposed Armenian terror against Azerbaijanis? A photo that blew the lid off

While trying to label Azerbaijan as the “enemy of civilians”, ANCC - the Armenian National Committee in Canada, in fact, exposed the atrocities of the Armenian forces against the civilians in Azerbaijan.

A photo posted on the official Twitter and Facebook pages of ANCC depicted the debris of civilian houses in the background of a hasty message: “AZERBAIJAN IS SHELLING CIVILIAN SETTLEMENTS.”

“Earlier today, Azeri forces open fire and shelled several villages in the Martuni region of Artsakh [Karabakh], once again spreading fear and terror amongst the civilian population. So long as Azerbaijan does not abandon its policy of aggression and terror, sustainable peace will not be impossible to achieve in the South Caucasus,” ANCC posted a message over the photo.

Slanderous social media posters of ANCC

But stop! There is a small but quite strong moment to prove ANCC telling a huge lie.

The moment we are talking about is hidden in the photo that was probably designed to back up the false accusations of the Canadian Armenians fueled by fiery hatred against Azerbaijan. The designer of the slanderous poster seemingly couldn’t find photos of nonexistent wreckages of the Armenian civilian infrastructure and willingly or unwillingly exposed the outcomes of the Armenian terror against Azerbaijanis.

The photo actually shows the houses and vehicles of Azerbaijanis destroyed by missile attacks of the Armenian military during the Armenia-Azerbaijan war in the autumn of 2020. A number plate on the wrecked car in the photo is Azerbaijani – “09 – BP – 128”, which is assigned to Barda, one of the Azerbaijani cities that suffered heavy Armenian bombardments throughout the war.

A number plate on the wrecked car in ANCC's photo is Azerbaijani – “09 – BP – 128”, which is assigned to the country's Barda city

More than 2,480 houses, 97 multi-apartment residential buildings, and 461 civilian infrastructure facilities in Azerbaijan have been confirmed to be damaged or completely destroyed in the wake of the Armenian army's attacks on densely populated civilian areas in the cities and districts of Ganja, Barda, Tartar, Agjabadi, Goranboy, Mingachevir, Kurdamir, Gabala, Aghdam, and Fuzuli in 2020.

The deadliest attack carried out by Armenia's forces took place in two consecutive missile fires on the Barda city of Azerbaijan on October 27 and 28. The missile strikes took the lives of 27 civilians and injured 107 in the city that is home to 40,000 people and located at least 30 kilometres far from the very centre of hostilities in Karabakh.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) analyzed the photos of cluster munition remnants found in Barda to conclude that the missile was a Smerch cluster munition rocket and a Smerch parachute-retarded high-explosive fragmentation rocket. A mix of large explosions and “pops” of smaller explosions that were heard following the attack was consistent with the detonations of the 9N235 submunitions, according to HRW. The 9N235 is a high explosive fragmentation submunition compatible with the Russia-made RSZO 9K58 "Smerch" multiple rocket launcher.

The original photo that is used by ANCC for its libellous poster. An Azerbaijani civilian in the photo shows his house destroyed by an Armenian missile strike in Barda in 2020

Before Barda, Armenia's forces launched four separate rocket fires on Ganja, the second-largest city of 500,000 population in Azerbaijan situated as far as 60 kilometres from the frontline. The missile strikes killed 25 civilians and wounded over 120, as well as completely destroyed more than 20 houses.

In the meantime, the Defence Ministry of Azerbaijan has rejected accusations of the Armenian side of shelling civilian infrastructure during the recent flare-up of clashes on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border from September 12 to 14. Armenia’s Health Ministry also confirmed that no civilian has been killed or injured as a result of the hostilities.

However, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan reported injuries of two Azerbaijani civilians by the Armenian shelling in the Kalbajar district on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border on September 13. Both have been hospitalized.

Azerbaijani civilians have long suffered Armenian attacks, vandalism, and terror. There are piles of photo and video facts that can provide everyone with crystal-clear proofs of bloody Armenian hatred against Azerbaijanis and they cannot be confused with others, like in the ANCC poster.

So, in the end, we would like to quote prominent Jewish philosopher Maimonides: “Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.”