Baku, May 9, AZERTAC
Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) of Azerbaijan Sabina Aliyeva has made a statement to support the implementation of the UN Resolution on “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia”.
AZERTAC presents the statement:
“The 9th of May, each year, is commemorated as a triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II. In fact, it is the victory for all who suffered from the WWII, Nazism, racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.
But unfortunately, the world community observes the tendency of glorifying Nazism in Armenia. As such in the capital of Armenia, a monument was erected to fascist executioner and traitor Garegin Ter-Harutyunyan, who served German fascists under the nickname of Garegin Nzhdeh. The former ruling Republican Party of Armenia took steps to perpetuate the memory of such an ambiguous nationalist polit