Yaponiyanın Kyodo agentliyi Ermənistanın Azərbaycana təcavüzü, Qarabağda törədilən vandalizmdən bəhs edən yazı dərc edib.
Modern.az xəbər verir ki, yazının müəllifi Beynəlxalq jurnalist təşkilatı Global Journalism Council-un üzvü Aziz Gurpinardı.
Global Journalism Council-un beynəlxalq məsələlər üzrə koordinatoru Elşad Eyvazlının bildirdiyinə görə, jurnalist bir müddət öncə Azərbayacna səfər edən əcnəbi media nümayəndələri arasında olub və o, Qarabağ bölgəsinə gedərək hər şeyi öz gözlərilə görüb.
Həmin səfər müddətində jurnalist Aziz Gurpinar Füzuli, Ağdam, eləcə də ən çox raket hücumuna məruz qalmış Tərtərdə ermənilərin törətdiyi vəhşiliklə yerində tanış olub, gerçəkləri hadisələrin canlı şahidlərindən dinləyib.
Azərbaycan həqiqətləri ilə yaxından tanış olan əcnəbi jurnalist burada gördükləri haqqında Yaponiyanın dövlət agnetliyində geniş reportaj dərc edib.
E.Eyvazlı bildirib ki, bir müddət sonra Global Journalism Council-un təşkilatçılığı ilə daha bir qrup əcnəbi jurnalistin ölkəmizə səfəri gözlənilir.
Jurnalist Aziz Gurpinarın Kyodo agentliyində dərc etdirdiyi yazı aşağıda ingilis dilində verilir:
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Azerbaijan-Armenia (News Focus)
FOCUS: Azeris return home to postwar ruins after 3 decades, emotions mixed
By Aziz Gurpinar
FUZULI/AGDAM, Azerbaijan, Jan. 8 Kyodo - Two months have passed since an armistice was signed to end fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory disputed between Azerbaijan and Armenia, that left more than 5,000 dead on both sides.
After 44 days of heavy fighting between the two former Soviet republics, Armenia on Nov. 9 agreed to cede control over a significant part of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven districts around it under a Russia-brokered cease-fire deal.
While Azeris celebrate their victory in high spirits, the decades-long dispute has left its scars both in and around the predominantly Christian Armenian enclave inside Muslim-majority Azerbaijan, which broke away in the early 1990s and has been self-governed ever since.
Reporters from Kyodo News were among those recently allowed to visit the two formerly Armenian-occupied Azeri districts of Fuzuli and Agdam, about a five-hour drive from the Azeri capital Baku.
Upon entering the "liberated" areas, an idyllic landscape of green pastures where sheep and cows grazed and cotton and vegetable fields gave way to one of desolation characterized by abandoned villages and ruined ghost towns.
Both districts were captured by ethnic Armenian forces in 1993 and had since been used as buffer zones around Nagorno-Karabakh, while also serving as part of a land corridor to Armenia.
Fuzuli, recaptured by Azeri forces in October, borders Iran and was once famed for its grapes. Now it is littered with unexploded rockets, tank wrecks and plenty of landmines to avoid.
The Azeris say the houses in the district were looted and bulldozed in 1993 by then-victorious Armenian separatists, bent on preventing former residents from returning by making their dwellings uninhabitable.
The picture was even grimmer upon entering the eerily quiet ghost town of Agdam, capital of the district of the same name, which Armenian forces vacated on Nov. 20 as required by the armistice.
Located a few kilometers from the current border of Nagorno-Karabakh, it was once known as one of the developed towns of Azerbaijan, but transformed into a no-man's-land after being seized by Armenian forces over 27 years ago.
The Juma Mosque is the only steady building left in the town, and its twin minarets provide a panoramic view of rubble stretching across the plain, earning it the nickname "Hiroshima of the Caucasus."
Since the Armenian occupation was lifted, some former Azeri residents of Agdam recently had an opportunity to visit their devastated homeland.
Among them was Aide Huseynova, a 60-year-old schoolteacher who said she "cannot find the words to express my happiness" at returning, while lamenting on the lost glory of her native place.
"I am very grateful that I could see my hometown once again before I die," Huseynova said, barely containing her tears.
"Agdam was one of the most beautiful and modern towns of its time. I have a heavy heart when I think back of how it used to be," she said.
Even though the warring parties have reached a truce, the historical bad blood is likely to last for generations to come.
"Our government says the local Armenians will be allowed to stay in Nagorno-Karabakh, but I don't agree. We cannot be friends with them. I cannot forgive them after all they did," Mehemmed Nezerov, a 58-year-old electrician, said while visiting Agdam.
The situation is no different in neighboring Armenia.
The photo of a letter believed to have been written by an Armenian child has gone viral recently as it shows even children have internalized negative sentiments toward their neighbors. In the Christmas letter to Santa Claus, the child asked for arms to fight the Azeris, instead of asking for a scooter or a doll.
Oil-rich Azerbaijan has vowed to start reconstruction activities in the newly reclaimed territories after full demining, expected to take from five to eight years.
"The Azerbaijani government will rebuild Fuzuli and Agdam. There will be new cities. Refugees and internally displaced persons will return to their homes," Hikmet Hajiyev, a senior advisor to Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, told reporters in Baku.
"But what we cannot give back to people is 30 years that they have lost from their lives," he said.
==Kyodo
