After the last border incident, when the Armenian side responded and destroyed the enemy’s firing point near the Azerbaijani village (an Azerbaijani child and a woman were killed), an unprecedented militaristic hysteria has been raised in Azerbaijan. Even the president’s daughter takes part in it. All platforms of propaganda are used. The coordinator of Razm.info specialized site Karen Vrtanesyan announced about this. “This is a good opportunity for the Baku propaganda machine to talk about war and call for revenge, to expresses dissatisfaction to the OSCE Minsk Group”, he said.
The expert pointed out that the village, Alkhanli, not for the first time was used as a live shield by the Azeri armed forces. “It seems as if they were waiting for something like that to start a militaristic hysteria. They are spreading the child’s bloody photos with such enthusiasm… but Azerbaijan does not announce that the child was killed because the Azeri armed forces were hiding behind the population”.
Karen Vrtanesyan mentioned that during the last year, there have been more incidents in the same village, in Alkhanli, as Azerbaijan has stationed its fire points near the residential area.
Garik Harutyunyan, an analyst at Razm.info, clarified, “They placed firing points near the same village still in 2015. They fired, received a response and accused the Armenian side. There are trenches in the village, artillery batteries. A whole division posts are located in this village. If the Armenian side fires on the Azerbaijani artillery, they will have to fire over the village. The same refers to Azeris”.
Karen Vrtanesyan does not think that Azerbaijan will dare to start large-scale military operations, “”But it is not ruled out that they are preparing provocations,” “But it is not excluded that they are preparing provocations”.
Luiza SUKIASYAN
