April 2021
Tensions continued to mount among Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt ahead of Addis Ababa’s planned second unilateral filling of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in coming months. In apparent warning to Addis Ababa and preparation for possible escalation of inter-state tensions, Sudan and Egypt 31 March-5 April held second joint military exercise since Nov 2020. New round of talks among Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on filling and operation of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Blue Nile river broke down 6 April. Cairo same day denounced Ethiopia’s “lack of political will to negotiate in good faith”, while Khartoum vowed to “consider all possible options to protect its security”, denouncing Addis Ababa’s rejection of its proposal for quadripartite mediation by AU, EU, UN and U.S. to break deadlock in AU-led negotiations. Ethiopia’s water minister Seleshi Bekele 7 April said Addis Ababa would proceed with second filling of dam during forthcoming rainy season bet
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Azerbaijan s Ethnic Hatred Theme Park Draws Ire, Imperils Reconciliation
April 22, 2021 21:05 GMT
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Many countries have war museums, paying tribute to a conflict s combatants and chronicling the battles that usually resulted in a great victory for the nation.
What s less usual is for such a museum to open mere months after the war and to feature cartoonish-like mannequins of the enemy soldiers.
Yet that is what is on display in downtown Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, in a museum that was inaugurated on April 12 by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
Dubbed the Military Trophies Park, the sprawling exhibit features dozens of Armenian tanks, trucks, and other heavy military equipment captured on battlefields during last year s 44-day war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Azerbaijan Trophy Park Offensively Showcases Armenian Soldiers
04/23/2021 Azerbaijan (International Christian Concern) – The sculptors behind Azerbaijan’s Trophy Park recently shared their thought process in the creation of the Armenian soldier wax figures that appear alongside Armenian military equipment. The park, which opened April 12, celebrates Azerbaijan’s genocidal military conquest in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The three sculptors, Kamran Asadov, Mushfig Heydarov, and Rashid Maharramov, were commissioned to create 26 wax figures to represent Armenian soldiers. According to Maharramov, a job of this size typically takes a year or more, but the team completed it in three and a half months. The sculptors were seemingly joyful and glad to work particularly hard on the creation of figures for the offensive park. Azerbaijan and Turkey’s rhetoric against Armenians and Christians affects the average citizen, encouraging and bolstering Azeris to degrade them in day-to-day actions,