This article comes from “Figaro Magazine”
Dictators have one thing that cannot be blamed on them: they say what they do and do what they say.
At the head of Azerbaijan for twenty years through elections that were democratic in name only (gagged press, daily propaganda in schools, in administrations and the media, opponents imprisoned, exiled or dead, etc. ), Ilham Aliev had promised to avenge his father, Heydar Aliev, local master of the KGB then of the Communist Party between 1967 and 1987, and president of post-Soviet Azerbaijan.
In 1994, defeated militarily, he had to abandon the Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh, artificially attached to his country by Stalin in 1923. Aliev son, at the cost of three wars (2016, 2020 and 2023) and ethnic cleansing last fall, fulfilled the promise to Dad.
So we must take this satrap with oriental manners seriously when he declared a few years ago that he wanted to
“drive out the Armenians…
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