The New York Times has a lot to Answer for
“When Armenia talked tough, Azerbaijan took action”
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Carlotta Gall is a British journalist who is also Istanbul’s bureau chief for The New York Times. Azerbaijan has been in the middle of a $3 billion money-laundering scandal that has been directly linked to four shell companies registered in Britain.
Gall calling herself a journalist is the equivalent of Donald Trump claiming that the Central Park Five should have been executed. They’re pinnacles of fraudulence designed to stir emotion and sell it off as war-fevered nationalism.
I was paralyzed by a comparison.
Imagine if, every day, you woke up to another 9/11.
That is exactly what’s happening to Armenia right now. Their per-capita casualties, when set side-by-side with America, are the equivalent of a 9/11 happening every day. The bombings began on September 27 — it’s almost a month straight of a new list of dead children, soldiers, youth. And now, the new targets have been hospitals, buildings, residences, and civilians.
There have been very few reporters allowed in Azerbaijan to document what’s been going on. The few they have, like Carlotta Gall, have claimed that:
“When Armenia talked tough, Azerbaijan took action”
I shouldn’t even provide the word ‘claimed’. That is the title for her piece that’s published in the New York Times.
There have been civilian casualties on both sides. There have been asymmetric losses on both sides. But Gall’s journalism is to paint a disgusting illustration that Armenia is somehow an aggressor in the region. Armenia is a tiny region in the Caucuses with 3 million people, a land-locked economy, and a small military, if you want to call it that. It has no ambitions to fight wars, start them, or pre-emptively strike anybody.
The people of Artsakh are an ethnic, indigenous people who are seeking to simply survive. There is nobody in this region who is seeking the destruction of its neighbors. Armenians around the world, otherwise known as the diaspora, exceed the population at home by about 6 million people. There are easily over 200,000…
