Hi. I wanted to speak to the fact that there is no correlation between
Azerbaijan and Turkey there was no reason to have Turkey Divest in this
meeting and if you want to talk about dictatorial regimes that have committed
massacres, Karabakh government is that regime but there was no mention of that here. The
Karabakh government who are made of Armenian militants who massacred hundreds of
thousands of Azerbaijanis, they are now in power and those are the people
you met with when you went to visit them on multiple occasions. There is a
relationship between the fact that the Armenian Lobby here and Armenian
citizens here have been feeding you this information and you as a responsible
representative of all of California, of all citizens, if anyone in this room
should have asked those questions, it would have been you. And we are
disappointed in you as Californians, as citizens that you are not asking those
questions. You are not getting those informations. We are Azerbaijanis and we were killed by Armenians,
by the government that you supported today. So I am ashamed. I'm ashamed.
Hi my name is Amy. I am an Azerbaijani American. I have visited Azerbaijan multiple times and I've witnessed
myself the 800,000 Azerbaijanis who were displaced from their land in
Karabakh. We discussed the Sumgait tragedy earlier and yes, it was a crime. It was
committed. 26 armenians and 6 Azerbaijanis were killed during these
tragic days. All perpetrators were held accountable and brought to justice and I
would like to mention the one of the perpetrators himself by the name of
Gregorian was Armenian. But what about the killing of the 613 Azerbaijani
civilians by Armenian troops in Khojaly, just four years later in 1992. None of
these perpetrators were brought to justice. Will you be unbiased and fair
and hold a hearing on the Khojaly massacre as well.
It's a question because
you mentioned the Sumgait and this was 26 people which one was actually Armenian
that committed this crime. This is the public comment section. I
certainly will do my research and let you know. I would really appreciate
that because as an American I would like you to take an unbiased approach to this
and hear both sides. Thank you. And that's what you're
sharing today and we'll go to the next speaker. So thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Adila and I was born and
raised in Baku, Azerbaijan. My mother was born and raised in Karabakh. The aggression by
Armenia against Azerbaijan has turned 1 million Azerbaijanis into refugees
and internally displaced persons. The rights of these Azerbaijani
civilians have been grossly violated What can this Select Committee tell those one
million Azerbaijanis who still wait to return to their homes and lands?
Thank you. Keep making your presentation and then I'll make a comment at the end.
Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Yasmin. I'm an Azerbaijani American
student at UC Berkeley. Earlier this week you received an email asking you to
let us bring a member of our Azerbaijani community here to testify
alongside the Armenian speaker in order to present the Azerbaijani
perspective of this conflict as well. My question to you is why you have chosen
to only present one side of this perspective when there is such
fundamental disagreement from both sides and there are so many other voices that
need to be heard. And I'll make a comment when all the public comments are done. So
thank you. Thank you. You can identify yourself. Thank you. My name is Anar.
Usubov. I'm from Karabakh, Khojaly. As you mentioned in your
speech, you have been to Agdam. This is a city I spent one year in 1993.
I was born in Soviet Azerbaijan actually in in 1981 and
then as a result of another genocide committed against my family, I survived,
living in tent camps for 10 years in Azerbaijan and in 2015 I moved to the
United States of America. And my point is that it will be more fruitful and
productive to have both communities of Karabakh
in these meetings and listen to both sides and their opinions and their stances about
the California and Karabakh cultural and social ties and within this one
minute of time for me you don't have much room to express what
you want to express but that would be more productive in the future like
meetings or works. Thank you.
Hi. I'm an American and this is my first time actually at a hearing like this
and I am to be honest shocked and disillusioned as what the United States
and California has offered for me as democracy. I was hoping to see something
from the two sides. We are moving towards a world that we could live in peace
especially at this time. But I was sitting here just in shock. I'm thinking
okay what how come there was no reach to the Azerbaijani community, to the
other side to ask what is your perspective on this. Because as
constituents in Southern California and Northern California, all over California,
we hope you hear our voices and act upon those. So I want to ask how can we get
involved with your office to learn more about such hearings or any other sort of
event that's coming up so we can also put on our side of the story so you can
see all of the facts and make decisions off of those. Should I follow up afterwards, who
should I contact? Lucine from my office so make sure you give her your email.
Thank you. Thank you. My name is Hamid Azari. I'm American. I can see this
really oh really it was shameful today to see what has gone here. We're talking about
democracy. We are talking about the humanity, but I didn't see it today in this
room. If we believe that, then you have to check what happened in Karabakh
what happened in Khojaly. I don't know how people can come and
talk and speak about democracy. if you talk about the Turkish government,
Turkish democracy, I want to ask what is this Armenian democracy, how it's going
over there? Is there some democracy over there? All the world is accepting that
Karabakh is belonging to Azerbaijan.
What's going on this room? I don't believe that... it's very, very shameful.
I live in California. I heard all this. You know everything is good
if it comes to economic and benefit of the nations. You guys mentioned the
anniversary, 30th anniversary of Sumgait.
I lived in those days in Baku that time. And I know what happened in Sumgait.
and also in Baku. But I just want to say to Armenian community
who lives here. They are not informed enough. That one was organized by KGB and this
Eduard Grigorian, he killed...I graduated from law school of University of Baku...
...he killed 7 Armenians, he raped Armenians.
It is a KGB-organized act. I know both nations. None of them is killers. You have
to be trained to be a killer. That's my one point. Another thing is
when we say about, you know, Karabakh, we have to consider the people who were
displaced, internally displaced. I don't want to call them refugees. They were displaced from
their own land. 300,000 Armenians...Armenia didn't let them come to Armenia.
They went to Krasnodar, Moscow and the United States. I just wanna say we have to
consider the people also who lived in Karabakh.
Maybe they can benefit somewhere else. Thank you.
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