Azerbaijan uses Karabakh prisoner of war for propaganda, expert says
24.03.2015,
11:59
Azerbaijan is using the contract serviceman of Karabakh army of defense Andranik Grigoryan, who crossed into Azerbaijan on Sunday, for propaganda purposes, political analyst Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan said on Sputik-Armenia radio.
YEREVAN, March 24. /ARKA/. Azerbaijan is using the contract serviceman of Karabakh army of defense Andranik Grigoryan, who crossed into Azerbaijan on Sunday, for propaganda purposes, political analyst Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan said on Sputik-Armenia radio.
A contract serviceman of Karabakh army of defense, 24-year old Andranik Grigoryan left his weapon, deserted and crossed into Azerbaijan at about 13:50 on Sunday March 22, the press office of Nagorno-Karabakh ministry of defense reported.
Azerbaijani mass media disseminated a video of Grigoryan on Monday.
It is not the first case when Azerbaijan makes Armenian citizens found in its territory say what it needs in front of the cameras, to re-affirm its anti-Armenian propaganda Melik-Shahnazaryan said.
This means Azerbaijan is consistent in its policies and re-affirms it will pull out all the stops to achieve its goals, according to Melik-Shahnazaryan.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into armed clashes after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as the predominantly Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan sought to secede from Azerbaijan and declared its independence backed by succeeding referendum.
A truce was brokered by Russia in 1994, although no permanent peace agreement has been signed. Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh is the longest-running post-Soviet era conflict and has continued to simmer despite the relative peace of the past two decades, with snipers causing tens of deaths a year. –0--
