Thread by @MelkDiana

I refuse to believe that humanity is dead. But I get fresh proofs everyday.

A thread of 21 inhuman facts about 21 days of war in Artsakh. And how the world is silent.

#StopAzerbaijaniAggression #SanctionTurkey #RecognizeArtsakh

1. 3 weeks ago, during a global pandemic, 105 years after the Armenian Genocide, Armenia, a country of 3m people, of which 150k lived peacefully in Artsakh for centuries, was attacked by Azerbaijan (10m) with full support of Turkey (82m). The world is silent.

2. Turkey managed the offensives and deployed thousands of Syrian terrorists here just for this blitzkrieg. It also supports the air strikes with F-16 and suicide drones. The world is silent.

#SanctionTurkey

3. Azerbaijani military budget is larger than the whole GDP of Armenia. Turkey has the second largest military in @NATO. They have been planning this attack for months, if not years. Yet they accuse #Armenia of starting this war. The world is silent.

#StopAzerbaijaniAggression

4. In the 21st century 2 decapitations happen in one day: a professor and a prisoner of war. One for religion, other for ethnicity. The world shouts about one, and is silent about the other.

#StopAzerbaijaniAggression #SanctionTurkey #StopAliyev

5. A subversive group in Hadrut killed 5 people, including a woman and her disabled son in their own home. His disability made them immobile and unable to evacuate with others. The world is silent.

#ArmeniaAgainstTerrorism #StopAzerbaijaniAggression #HumanRights

6. Civilians of Stepanakert, Shushi are shelled non-stop. Stepanakert is as far from the frontline as Ganja, and unlike the latter, it doesn’t have any military objects. Around 700 bombs, including banned cluster munitions, fell on the city in last 3 weeks. The world is silent.

https://twitter.com/NarekCh/status/1315736702170914820

7. People, struck by the damage of 2 missiles in Ganja (a city of equal size to Stepanakert, but with many military objects) shout that this is different, Stepanakert is a “war zone”, children SHOULD die there. It isn’t. They shouldn’t. The world is silent.
#RecognizeArstakh

https://twitter.com/armenianunified/status/1317501750006501380

8. Azerbaijan refuses to organize an evacuation of its people from places where they manage the offensives. #Ganja is not the only example. This way, #Azerbaijan uses its people as live shields. The world is silent.

#StopAzerbaijaniAggression #RecognizeArtsakh

https://twitter.com/elbakyanedgar/status/1317461968798830593

9. A 19th century church in Shushi is shelled. Twice. With the 2nd strike following when people (incl. doctors&journalists) rushed for help. The 2nd strike fell at the exact same spot, proving this was a targeted attack. And yet Aliyev says it was an accident. The world is silent

https://twitter.com/VRSoloviev/status/1316624548817711104

10. Hospitals are being targeted, including the ones where civilians are being cured. Vice President and First Lady of Azerbaijan (interestingly enough, in one person) Mehriban Aliyeva shares that video saying it was a military stock. The world is silent.

#RecognizeArtsakh

https://twitter.com/shstepanyan/status/1317511212767285251

11. Other cultural objects with zero military values (e.g crossstones, or “khachqars” as Armenians call them) are being destroyed just because. The world is silent.

#ArmeniaAgainstTerrorism #StopAzerbaijaniAggression #SanctionTurkey #RecognizeArtsakh

https://twitter.com/elbakyanedgar/status/1317859251696635904

12. Multiple resources talk about the Azeri bribes in the UK government. About their involvement in money laundering. About the bloodsoaked petrodollars they spend on organizing parties for UK politicians, or buying Israeli military.



#RecognizeArtsakh

12. (Continued) #Israel boasts that Azerbaijan couldn’t have continued the war at this intensity without their support. The world is silent.

#StopAzerbaijaniAggression #SanctionTurkey #RecognizeArtsakh #ArmeniaAgainstTerrorism #HumanRights

https://twitter.com/alitahmizian/status/1316712610625130496

13. International journalists, being banned an entry to #Azerbaijan, risk their lives reporting from #Artsakh. They all call this war more dangerous than that in #Donbass, in #Chechnya, in #Syria. Experienced war reporters state they never saw such fighting. The world is silent.

14. While Armenia was busy dealing with the previous corrupt government, we lived in ignorance that Azerbaijan didn’t waste time. The whole education program was built spreading hate speech and propaganda.

#StopAzerbaijaniAggression #StopAliyev

https://twitter.com/tatekmek/status/1293041954616487939

14. (continued) Games in kindergarten, schoolbooks, videos, art: all is full of an ethnic hate for Armenians. This generation of Azeris will have psychological problems their whole lives. The world is silent.

#StopAzerbaijaniAggression #SanctionTurkey #RecognizeArtsakh

https://twitter.com/melkdiana/status/1316734571854147586

15. The results of this brainwashing are already visible. Each try for an educated dialogue w/ an Azeri results in personal insults. No day passes by w/o me getting a threat of being tortured, raped, killed just because I am Armenian. Same for our supporters. The world is silent.

https://twitter.com/melkdiana/status/1316107462882271233

16. Politicians who can openly talk about their fascist agenda are not imprisoned in Azerbaijan. However the 7 people who have voted for #Armenia on #Eurovision are. Together w/ #Turkey, Azerbaijan also tops the list of countries with imprisoned journalists. The world is silent.

https://twitter.com/pilmmine/status/1317105025555042305

17. Turkey blocks humanitarian aid meant to assist Armenian civilians. #Georgia de jure closed the air borders to both countries, but de facto hosts multiple large cargo military planes from #Israel and #Turkey heading to #Azerbaijan. The world is silent.

#SanctionTurkey

https://twitter.com/unwatch/status/1317145298557227008

18. Since the start of war, there have been 2 humanitarian ceasefire agreements. Both have been broken by Azerbaijan within minutes. #Azerbaijan refuses to have independent observers to maintain the #ceasefire. The world is silent.

#StopAzerbaijaniAggression #RecognizeArtsakh

https://twitter.com/realbznuni/status/1317621664394469376

19. As a result of non-stop offensives the pile of dead soldiers had been decaying for over 20 days, resulting in infections, spread by maggots and rodents.

#HumanRights #StopAzerbaijaniAggression #SanctionAzerbaijan #RecognizeArtsakh #SanctionTurkey

https://twitter.com/atatoyan/status/1317787246200762378

19. (continued) Some lay near a river, where the infection can be spread not only to Azerbaijan & Armenia, but also to Iran, resulting in an environmental disaster. Azerbaijan refuses to cooperate with the @RedCross. The bodies stay and continue to rot. The world is silent.

20. Each military action is accompanied by a spread of fake news, fake announcements and photos even from the official accounts. They plant fake missiles in freshly and accurately cut holes, or in the middle of a room without any other destructions.

#DontBelieveAzerbaijan

https://twitter.com/vardanyanane/status/1314219667272200192

20. (continued) They use photos of earthquakes, or children died in 2016 in Aleppo. They make child models cry on camera and then boast about it. They even use the photo of a dead soldier draped in an Artsakh flag as if he was an Azeri martyr.

#DontBelieveAzerbaijan

20. (continued) The quality of these fakes is so low, it’s not at all hard to prove them wrong. But their main purpose is to confuse the uninformed readers. To make it difficult to grasp the truth. And they succeed. The world is silent.

#DontBelieveAzerbaijan #RecognizeArtsakh

https://twitter.com/ZartonkMedia/status/1316885798638120960

21. But the hardest of it all is that the everlasting dictator Aliyev allows to call this period “joyful days”. A period where thousands die, war crimes are committed. A period of war and mourning. Very glorious joyful days indeed.

#StopAliyev #StopAzerbaijaniAggression

https://twitter.com/presidentaz/status/1317418942667853825

I refuse to believe this. But the facts speak for themselves. The humanity is dead. The world is silent. Please, PLEASE, prove me wrong, people of the world. Help us stop this. Boycott Turkish and Azeri products. Urge your governments to #RecognizeArtsakh and #SanctionTurkey.