Manifestations of Armenian hatred in Azerbaijan։ the politics of cultural genocide

After the third Artsakh war, anti-Armenianism took deeper roots in Azerbaijan. 2021 was an obvious manifestation of the genocidal thinking of the leadership of Azerbaijan. the park of military spoils opened in the center of Baku in April. Regular statements from Baku prove the hatred generated in that country towards the ethnic Armenian population, which is manifested in various directions, particularly educational and cultural. A generation is being raised in Azerbaijan, which considers Armenians not just enemies, but is ready for any inhuman cruelty towards Armenians. That generation committed atrocities in Artsakh during the 44-day war, and that generation continues to prepare for a new war. Therefore, there cannot be "peace" in this complex geopolitical region, where we do not have "peace-loving" neighbors. One of the obvious manifestations of Armenian hatred is Azerbaijan's policy of cultural genocide.

Azerbaijan's policy of cultural genocide

Actions carried out to destroy the culture of any nation or ethnic group are called national-cultural genocide. According to lawyer Raphael Lemkin, genocide is not only the elimination of a national or religious group by physical extermination, but also the destruction of its national-spiritual culture. However, the concept of "National-Cultural Genocide" was not included in the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the December 9.

Even during the third Artsakh war, Azerbaijan deliberately targeted Armenian monuments: churches, khachkars, cemeteries, etc. One of the manifestations of cultural genocide is also the fact that the top management of Azerbaijan tries to present Armenian cultural monuments typical for Caucasian Albania. In March, 2021, Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, visiting the Armenian church of Tsakuri village of Hadrut region, noted. "This is an Albanian church. Armenians tried to Armenianize this church as well, they wrote inscriptions here in Armenian, but they did not succeed. This is our ancient temple, the temple of our Udi brothers, and they will come here too. Just as our mosques were desecrated, the Armenians also desecrated the ancient Albanian temple. But we will restore, all these writings are false. They are notes added later. They have created a false history for themselves. While they didn't succeed in that... it's a Turkish mosque. The whole thing was falsified, turned into a garbage dump. Look at the day they destroyed this place, and then they say it's Armenian." There are many examples of the destruction of Armenian traces by Azerbaijan in the temporarily occupied Artsakh.

Azerbaijan's anti-Armenian policy continues to this day. Another manifestation of Azerbaijani vandalism and Armenian hatred was the breaking of the tombstones of the soldiers who died in the first Artsakh war in Vardashat village of Hadrut region.

Thus, the genocidal manifestations of Azerbaijan are also reflected in the spiritual and cultural sphere, which speaks of the "national" complexities of the Turkish project called Azerbaijan, which was created in the South Caucasus and is devoid of history and culture.

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