News - Azerbaijan president demands Armenia authorities to prosecute their national heroes

The president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, demands from the authorities of Armenia—and as a "means of trust"—to prosecute the national heroes of Armenia: the participants of the first Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war in the early 1990s. Now, hiding behind the possible goals of "punishing criminals," Aliyev refers to all the participants of military operations as such—and first of all, to those who made a huge contribution to the liberation and subsequent development of Nagorno-Karabakh. But not a single war criminal has been punished in Azerbaijan, despite undeniable and often public facts in that regard. On the contrary, Aliyev personally rewarded Azerbaijani criminals and beheaders of Armenians. In his address to the participants of the international conference on "Addressing the problem of missing persons: upholding ‘the right to know’ for the families" in Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, Aliyev called the heroes of the Armenian people "war criminals" and demanded to "bring them to justice." Also, Azerbaijan demands that Armenia amend its constitution and remove the reference to its Declaration of Independence, which mentions Nagorno-Karabakh. But Azerbaijan itself is not planning on change its own legislation, being the successor of the first Republic of Azerbaijan and actually considering the entire territory of Armenia as "its own." Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, speaking recently at the United Nations, considered it possible to amend the constitution of Armenia in order to achieve peace with Azerbaijan.