Are New Pogroms Anticipated in Baku?

The newspaper 'Haykakan Zhamanak' reports: 'Some Azerbaijani users on social media have spread information suggesting that the building of the Milli Majlis in Baku was attacked by the remaining “children of thirty thousand Armenians” to disrupt a public solidarity action with the army.'

We have already reported and provided photographic evidence that the actions of the protesters who entered the parliament were directed by state security general Rauf Khalapov, the nephew of Ilham Aliyev. Most likely, the information circulating on social media was also concocted by Azerbaijani intelligence services.

Of course, there are no Armenians in Baku, but there are individuals born from mixed marriages, where one parent is of Armenian descent. These individuals appear to have come under the radar of the security services. Someone must be blamed for the military failures, and the media has reported on this or that official’s 'veins containing Armenian blood.' Even former Prime Minister Arthur Rasizade has undergone a thorough questioning; it is said that his mother was Armenian. Rasizade has denied this and sworn that his mother was half Russian, half Polish, originally from Rostov-on-Don. However, this seems not to change the situation.

The state apparatus has gone into action with the aim of carrying out another purging in Baku, targeting those suspected of Armenian heritage. Sources from the Azerbaijani diaspora are already sounding alarms about the violence that has occurred. It is not excluded that new pogroms in Baku may be organized under the slogan of 'cleansing the city of mixed breeds.'