ILHAM ALIEV DECIDED TO GET RID OF ARMENIANS WORKING FOR AZERBAIJAN SPECIAL SERVICES

PanARMENIAN.Net - According to Aliev's propaganda only in Baku there are currently 30 thousand Armenians who are "full citizens of international Azerbaijan". Actually, in Baku there are people of Armenian origin. They are mainly children from mixed marriages. Those people have long ago forgotten about their origin and have finally assimilated with the population of Azerbaijan. But even this factor does not save them from discrimination. The order of the minister of State Security is an open and gross violation of human rights. It is hard to call healthy a society where it is quite normal to dig in the family tree of a citizen and dismiss him or her because of discovering some ancestor whose surname ends in "yan". This phenomenon should certainly attract the attention of European structures and organizations since Azerbaijan has certain obligations towards them.

It is noteworthy that such things did not happen during Heidar Aliev. In one of his interviews former minister of State Security Office Namik Abasov admitted that in the staff of his ministry there were people with Armenian origins. Abasov said that he had no intension to dismiss them because they were conscientious and devoted workers. According to Abasov their dismissal would mean discrimination towards people who were faithful to their motherland. The new leaders of the State Security Office appointed not long ago by Ilham Aliev, back their decision with a strange argument. "We live in Azerbaijan and the presence of people with Armenian origin in the State Security Office is impossible", said the head of the public relations department of the ministry Arif Babayev. This is the style of Adolf Hitler who yet ten years before the opening of Osventsim started to dismiss Jewish born people working in law-enforcement structures.

It is absolutely obvious that the decision to dismiss people having Armenian origins is dictated not at all from considerations of national security, but from cheap populism and striving to justify failures in work. Since the appointment of Eldar Mahmudov nothing has changed for the better in special services of Azerbaijan. The minister decided ascribe the problems in the system of secret services to Armenians working there. Armenians are remembered when there are objective difficulties. Things were like that also two years ago during the riot of cadets in an elite military college. At that time all the blame was put on one of the college's directors who had an Armenian born mother-in-law. When the construction works of Baku-Tbilis-Jeyhan oil pipeline slowed down, the problem was ascribed to some Armenian who worked in the Greek subcontract company. When PACE criticized Azerbaijan for non-observance of democracy norms, Baku propagandists asserted that it was the blame of reporter Andrea Gross who was not objective for having worked as an assistant to a Swiss deputy who was connected with Armenians. When Europe raised the question of Azeri political prisoners the local press ascribed that to Leyla Yunus, saying that she was interested in the discreditation of Azerbaijan because her beloved mother-in-law was half Armenian. After all this, there will be to surprise at if Azeris blame Armenians for the last year's Tsunami in Indonesia or the earthquake in Turkey...