Western Azerbaijan Community

Human Rights Watch, which positions itself as a champion of human rights, has published its annual report on the state of human rights in the world. In the section of the report on Azerbaijan, along with numerous slanderous statements, the issue of creating conditions for the return of Armenians who left our country is raised. However, in the section dedicated to Armenia, there is not a word about the return of expelled Azerbaijanis.

We consider this discrimination on the part of Human Rights Watch against the Azerbaijani people on ethnic and religious grounds. Racial discrimination is in no way acceptable. When this discrimination is carried out by organizations calling themselves champions of human rights, it deals a double blow to human rights. We would especially like to remind you that shortly before the publication of this report, a speech by former President Levon Ter-Petrosyan was distributed, confirming that the ethnic cleansing carried out by Armenia against Western Azerbaijanis was a state policy, and we sent a special appeal to Human Rights Watch on this matter.

We demand that Human Rights Watch and the forces behind it stop using human rights as a political tool, racial discrimination against Azerbaijanis, and supporting Armenia’s policy of ethnic cleansing.