The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries
began 1987, when Armenia started ethnic cleansing of Azeri and Kurds-Muslims to
make later in 1988 illegal territorial claims against Azerbaijan.
Since 1987 some 11,000 ethnic Azerbaijanis have been
ethnically cleansed from their homes in Armenia. They became the very first
refugees of the NK conflict. In 1988-1989 more than 200,000 Azerbaijanis were
forced to leave Armenia. During the ethnic cleansing at least 216 Azerbaijanis
were killed. On December 1989
ethnical cleansing was accomplished and Armenia celebrated festival “Armenia
without Turks”
There are lots of staggering facts about the bloody
disasters that Azeris and Kurds had to face. One of them has taken place on September 16, 1989. Armenian gangs made a terror
attack in the Yevlakh district of the Azerbaijan SSR :
their target was a passenger bus "Tbilisi-Baku". As a
result of this terror act 5 people were killed, and 25 were
injured.
Oleg Litvin, the journalists from news agency AzerTag, who
shot the terrible consequences of terrorist attack. One of his
photographs shows a burnt face of Azerbaijani baby (see
photo 1).
Photo1: The original photo made by Oleg Litvin, the journalists
from news agency AzerTag, 1989
The tragic death of this child was used by Armenian propaganda. Two
years later, in 1991, Armenian lobby issued an article “The Long Road to
Erkech” and presented the photo of burnt Azerbaijani child under the headline
“wounded Armenian Child”.
The forgery was uncovered:
1. There was an orthographical mistake in spelling of the name of the
newspaper. Armenian forgery spelled it “Komsomolec Kuzbasa” with one “s”,
while the correct name of the city is Kuzbass.
2. There is neither original hard copy of the newspaper, or photocopy of
it. There is only internet version. Yet, one should say that internet based
newspapers did not exist in 1991 in SSSR. Moreover this internet version of
“soviet” newspaper, does not belong to soviet/Russian users, it belongs only to
Armenian users, f. e. Mikayel.
3. On the photographs of this “soviet” newspaper one can see the Armenian
label http://press.karabakh.info from 2007 (see photo 3). It is obvious that this
internet based “soviet” newspaper is a forgery, because the label of the
Armenian internet resource created in 2007 can not exist on the “original”
photo of Soviet newspaper from 1991, when internet did not exist in SSSR and
newspapers existed only as a hard copy.
Photo 3: Armenian propaganda forgery: the photo with label http://press.karabakh.info from 2007
P.S.
Original Photos by Oleg Litvin
After publication of this article exposed this lie of
Armenian media, some Armenian users decided to vehemently oppose us and
demanded not only the Azerbaijani child’s photo but also documented
evidence that this picture had been taken by Oleg Litvin after the bombing of
the passenger bus "Tbilisi-Baku" by Armenian terrorists in
September, 1989.
To satisfy these accusations, we contacted Oleg
Litvin, who confirmed his authorship of this photo. Here is his reply:
“Good day. Yes, it’s my photo. I don’t know the
newspapers in which it was published because I was working in the agency
AzerInform/AzerTag at that time, and our editorship sent all such pictures to
all republic newspapers. Besides, our editorship together with the publishing
house issued some brochures on this theme, and this photo was published there.
In 1990-1999, that and similar my photos were used practically in all the
publications that described the period of war escalation in Karabakh.
Yours truly,
Oleg”.
Also, Thomas de Waal, author of the book “The BlackGarden”, wrote on page 4 to particularly express his thanks
to the people who assisted him to create this work: “I also want to thank Arzu
Abdullaeva, Vugar Abdusalimov, Ulvy Ismail, Fuad Ahundov, Sabina Alieva; Halid
Askerov and Oleg Litvin for their pictures…”.
For finally clearing doubts regarding Litvin’s
authorship and the fact that there is an Azerbaijani boy who suffered because
of the bus "Tbilisi-Baku" bombing by Armenian terrorists,
we present the originals of these photos from the different publications issued
before appearing of forgery made by Armenian media in the “Komsomolec Kuzbasa”
and other papers. The boy in the picture is three-year-old Azer Musaev.
Rizvan Huseynov (Translated by Samira Samadova)
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