In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
What did Ottomans not do?
Did Ottoman state killed members of “the group”? No. It was a temporary relocation order.
Did Ottoman state give harm to members of “the group”? Maybe but it is not clear. It is a relocation order so yes forcefully being from your home is a trauma which could cause some amount of mental harm to some people.
Did Ottoman state deliberately inflicted on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part? No. Not intentionally. Ottomans were fighting the world bloodiest war in two fronts, during the events Ottoman soldiers were also dying of cold disease and hunger in thousands.
Did Ottoman state impose measures to prevent births? No.
Did Ottoman state forcibly transfer children of the group to another group? No.
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STATEMENT by Azerbaijani diaspora organizations on the mass burial site found in the village of Edilli of Khojavand District
We, Azerbaijanis living abroad, are deeply outraged by the reports of a mass burial site found in the territory of the village of Edilli in Khojavand District and regard this fact as the exposure of yet another Armenian war crime.
Note that the mass grave in the village of Edilli in Khojavand District, liberated from occupation in 2020 as a result of the 44-day Second Karabakh War, is not the first mass burial site to have been discovered. The finding of 12 human remains mass-buried in this grave with their hands and feet bound with wire and rope gives reason to believe that the number of people whose remains were recovered from the mass graves in Edilli reaches 25. The fact that these people are soldiers judging by their clothes and belongings confirms many allegations of torture and murder of Azerbaijani prisoners of war.
The discovered remains belong to the Azerbaijanis who went missing during the First Karabakh War and whose fate remains unknown to this day. However, despite repeated appeals, the Armenian side will not provide information about the fate of these persons and the locations of mass burial sites of Azerbaijanis in order to hide their war crimes from the international community.
We stress that the discovery of such graves openly exposes the Armenian Armed Forces’ war crimes rooted in ethnic hatred, which, in gross violation of international law, international humanitarian law, including the 1949 Geneva Convention for the Protection of War Victims, are accompanied with torture and inhumane acts against Azerbaijani civilians, military personnel, especially the wounded and dead, demonstrates their inhumane behavior and genocide policy. A striking example of this is the numerous videos confirming the multiple facts of brutal killings of Azerbaijani POWs by the Armenian military during the First and Second Karabakh wars with close-range shots to the head and heart area, robbery and dismemberment of soldiers’ bodies, torture and humiliation through acts incompatible with humanity.
We regret to state that along with baseless territorial claims against Azerbaijan, pursuing a policy of extreme hatred on racial, ethnic, religious grounds, instead of taking practical steps to stop the war crimes against our country and bring the perpetrators to justice for the past crimes, Armenia impedes security and the peace process in the region by instigating provocations that lead to confrontations between the two nations.
One must also not forget the important fact that the Armenian Armed Forces mined the territory of Azerbaijan, which they kept under occupation for 30 years, and that during the Second Karabakh War, they launched missile attacks on the Azerbaijani cities of Ganja, Barda, Mingachevir, Goranboy and Tartar, located dozens of kilometers from the front line, killing more than 100 civilians. However, in defiance of the trilateral statements signed by the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Russian Federation and the agreements reached in Brussels brokered by President of the European Council Charles Michel, official Yerevan has not yet shared with Azerbaijan the landmine maps and information about the fate of up to 4,000 Azerbaijanis who went missing during the First Karabakh War.
Azerbaijanis of the world strongly assert that the international community must react adequately to these war crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice in order to prevent Armenia from committing similar criminal acts in the future. The international community should know that Armenia carried out an anti-Azerbaijan intervention policy in the humanitarian area.
We once again bring these facts to the attention of the UN, the European Union, the Council of Europe and their agencies, and other competent international and regional organizations. We demand that Armenia’s war crimes be stopped and call for urgent legal action to bring to justice those responsible for the crimes against peace and humanity committed on ethnic grounds at various times.
As the world economic and diplomatic order is dynamically changing, Afghanistan is playing a more important role in the game change. A transit center between Pakistan, Central Asia, Russia and Europe, today Afghanistan is a strategic logistic corridor and a player in a new export and import relations.
For instance, Russia is on the way to adopt the idea of recognizing Afghanistan under Taliban. The facts speak for themselves: the opening of the Afghanistan Embassy in Russia with the Taliban’s “chargé d’affaires”, the Kremlin’s invitation of the Taliban delegation to the 25th anniversary “St. Petersburg International Economic Forum ”, which took place from June 15–18, 2022, the negotiation process between the Taliban and the then government of Afghanistan, which took place in Moscow in 2019 etc. But all this does not mean recognition of the Taliban government by Russia.
The first step towards an active and qualitative change in Taliban Afghanistan would be the development and adoption of the main law – the Constitution. The presence of a new constitution is a necessary condition for the Afghan state to become a player in the world arena as such a move determines the framework for the development of any state.
However, there are a number of difficulties in this matter, and the first of them is the fragmentation and clan structure of power within the Taliban, there are a number of groups with different leaders.
To solve these issues Afghanistan first of all has to adopt a number of basic principles such as to turn the government system into the Islamic republic with strong presidential power; to update its territorial structure, e.g.to adopt a decentralized unitary state, or a constitutional national federation. Consequently, a representative body will be needed to resolve issues between autonomies. Finally, regions should be enlarged and “national” autonomies should be formed (while maintaining the division into regions within autonomies) without the right to secede from Afghanistan, the capital Kabul should become a city of federal significance – a separate administrative unit that is not part of any national autonomy.
Russia, as the epicenter of acceleration process to turn the world to East, should contribute to the moderate transformation of the Afghanistan under Taliban, with a view to its further recognition in the international arena. However, there are a number of difficulties that will need to be addressed, ranging from humanitarian to religious and military issues. The process does not promise to be easy, but the security of the Russian Federation depends on the results of the work.
Despite the news about the Ukrainian army’s progress, the United States continues to use its full potential to provide Kyiv with more weapons, in order to ensure the continued confrontation of the Russian army and prevent Moscow from achieving its goals in its special military operation.
Washington confirms that it does not supply weapons to Ukraine indiscriminately, e.g. the quality of weapons is “accurately calculated”. However, these criteria are determined by Ukrainian military attaches deployed in Ukrainian embassies around the world. The weapons are later circulated within the lists of weapons of interest to the Ukrainian army before obtaining them through international intermediaries, and then transferred to the territory of Ukraine and used against the Russian army.
This mechanism is carefully organized and carefully. Washington is interested in buying Soviet weapons, given that the Ukrainian forces and militias participating in the fighting there are experienced in using this type of weapons.
The latest American attempt took place in Azerbaijan’s Baku, where an agreement was signed between an organization that belongs to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense and an intermediary European company close to Washington to supply a group of Soviet weapons to Kyiv.
The details reveal that this company is of Spanish origin called “SDLE”, which is an abbreviation for (Star Defense Logistics Engineering S.L), this company works under the supervision and funding of the American Intelligence Agency (CIA). The offer also included a plan to visit the military facilities in Azerbaijan to inspect the supplied weapons and the agreement from the Azerbaijani side to provide the Spanish company with weapons schedules, quantities and prices. The third country which will be used to transfer the weapons to Ukraine is likely to be the Czech Republic.
According to the information, the deal between the Spanish company and the Azerbaijani “Device” industrial organization was signed on June 23, 2022 and amounted to about $78 million.
As for the type of weapons, according to what the deal data shows, they are “Kornet”, “Victoria”, “Concura” and “Fagot” anti-armor missiles, in addition to “Strela” anti-aircraft missiles, and other light and heavy weapons.
The signing of the deal was attended by two representatives from the Azerbaijani side, the director of the “apparatus” Mammadov Azer and his deputy, Khadyrov Elgar. The buyer’s side was represented by the CEO of the Spanish “Star Defense” company, Estrella Aurelio Jesus, in addition to the representative of the company, Zuhur Rashid.
The information says that Azerbaijan has “transit” depots in Jordan with a large number of weapons, valued at about $500 million. Yet, it is not known whether these weapons will be launched from there or not.
The Spanish company is achieving remarkable growth in the field of weapons, and it also aspires to diversify its military activity. Being a provider of military systems, it is now investing in the military sector and looking forward to designing and supplying more complex military systems.
US officials have previously admitted on more than one occasion that their country is sending secretly obtained Soviet equipment in order to enhance the capabilities of the Ukrainian army in confronting the attacks of Russian forces. Though The Pentagon refused to disclose the size of its unknown arsenal of Soviet weapons, but Washington had previously kept some Soviet weapons in its warehouses, and was able to enhance them through similar deals with countries seeking to renew their military arsenal or aspiring to obtain American ones. In return for the supply of Soviet weapons to Ukraine.
The relationship between Russia and Azerbaijan is currently considered to be good. Due to the personal relations between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev, Russian-Azerbaijani cooperation has been strengthened over the recent years. The ongoing war in Ukraine today is likely to become a test for trust and sincerity of the countries that call themselves as allies and friends.
You are cordially invited to The Light Millennium Global’s Annual Meeting and 21st Anniversary Celebration Dedicated to: GLOBAL PEACE & NAZIM HIKMET: ‘ON LIVING’, LOVE & NATURE The Poet’s 120th Birth Anniversary On FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2022 | Meet & Greet (in person): 12:30 – 1:30 PM (EST) PROGRAM (hybrid): 2:00 – 4:00 PM (EST)
Where: The Salvation Army International Social Justice Commission Address: 221 E 52nd St, New York, NY 10022 (3rd Avenue on 52nd Street)
Please REGISTER in advance for this in PERSON meeting by June 16 (re Hybrid by June 17 before Noon):
If you are not able to join in us in person, please join us through above link.
Dear Friends,
Greetings to you ALL,
Let’s get together to share our favorite poems on ‘LIVING’, LOVE AND NATURE by NAZIM HIKMET (15 January 1902 – 3 June 1963) to celebrate the Poet’s 120th Birth Anniversary in NYC on FRIDAY, JUNE 17 at 2PM (EST).
Some of you may remember that we had celebrated the Poet’s 100th Birth Anniversary in NYC on May 2, 2002 with the following titled public program: “To Many More Millennia Dear NAZIM…”
Now, merging the Poet’s 120th Birth Anniversary celebration with The Light Millennium, Charitable Global Human Advancement Organization’s (LMGlobal.Org) 21st Anniversary (17 July 2001) and the Annual Meeting, which is dedicated to: GLOBAL PEACE
Please email theme related three short poems by the Poet to be presented during the program and/or questions (deadline extended) by June 14, 2022 to > [email protected].
Please note: 1. Language: English and Turkish (This program will be presented in three sections, and only poetry section will be bilingual.) 2. If the same titled poem is sent by others, accordingly, always the first sender will have the priority to present that particular poem. Thus, please email up to 3 titles as your 1st, 2nd and 3rd preferences. 3. Each presenter may have up to 3 min. presenting time. 4. MEET & GREET in person from 12:30 PM to 13:30 PM 5. PROGRAM: 2:00 – 4:00PM (Hybrid)
Where: The Salvation Army International Social Justice Commission Address: 221 E 52nd St, New York, NY 10022 (3rd Avenue on 52nd Street)
Please REGISTER for this in PERSON event by June 16 (re Hybrid by June 17 before Noon): If you are not able to join in us in person, please join us through above link.
Thank You.
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