I am writing to protest Mayor Walsh’s commemoration of Khojaly Day which is a rehashing of Azerbaijani propaganda. The Armenian people are the inhabitants of the entirety of the province of Nagorno-Kharabakh and have been defending themselves in their struggle for self determination for more than three decades. The Armenian during the twentieth century lost one and a half million people in the genocide perpetrated against them by Azerbaijan’s chief supporter, the Republic of Turkey.
This particular proclamation is especially offensive and outrageous coming as it does in the aftermath of war between the Armenian inhabitants of Artsakh and the genocidal regime of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is a regime that is hostile to the Armenians as it actively promotes the denial of the Armenian Genocide. At the outset of the recent war of aggression against the Armenians, Azerbaijani leaders openly advocated an attack on nuclear facilities within the Republic of Armenia.
This declaration of “Khojaly Day” is morally offensive and should be revoked with apologies extended to the Armenian people. Perhaps a reading of history is in order. See the recent “Thirty Year Genocide” by Israeli historians Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi. I respectfully ask that the Mayor of Boston revoke proclamation as quickly as possible.
Theodore G. Karakostas
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Nothing worse than a complacent politician who is secure in his office and at no risk of getting voted out. A Democrat Mayor in Boston is as politically secure as you can get, hence his appalling comments on this topic.
Politicians who are completely unfamiliar with the realities of other
countries take positions without hearing out other views. This is how
Turkish interests have taken hold of so many politicians in America.