Ombudsman’s Office: Armenia can take example of committing crime of genocide from France

Unfortunately, there are countries from which Armenia can take the example of committing the crime of genocide precisely in terms of its religious and racial characteristics, Aydin Safikhanli, Chief Of Staff at the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) of the Republic of Azerbaijan, member of the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation said at the international conference on "Islamophobia as a Specific Form of Racism and Discrimination: New Global and Transnational Challenges".

"One of these countries is France. The French-administered territories outside Europe are nasty remains of the French colonial empire,” he said.

He stressed that during the Armenian occupation, all civilian objects on the historical and ancestral lands of Azerbaijan, cultural and religious architectural monuments - mosques, places of religious worship, cemeteries were mercilessly destroyed, insulted and looted:

“Representatives of many international organizations directly observed these acts of vandalism committed by Armenia and noted them in their reports.”

“Genocide committed by the Armenians in the town of Khojaly in Azerbaijan`s Karabakh district on 26 February 1992 is a clear manifestation of Islamophobia and Turkophobia. The civil population in Khojaly was killed for the reason that they were Muslims and they were Turks,” Safikhanli said.