Azeri, British students protest at lop-sided Karabakh films

According to AssA-Irada, the tension escalated after an influential London-based university held an event on Tuesday dedicated to the causes underlying the long-standing dispute and ways of solving it. The attending Azeri, Armenian and European students were presented with six films featuring the Karabakh war.

Half of the movies screened were acquired from Armenia and the other three were presented as films directed by Azerbaijani cinematographers. However, after the films were shown, it turned out that all of them served Armenian interests.

The films authored by Armenians featured gruesome developments and showed Azeri soldiers allegedly committing atrocities against Armenians.

The films shot by Azerbaijanis, on the contrary, portrayed humanism and tolerance of Azerbaijanis toward Armenians. It is astounding that these films did not feature the devastated Azeri towns and villages, destroyed historical monuments and mosques, as well as the vicious Khojaly massacre committed by Armenians, and just showed the occupied territories.

The Armenian-authored presentations described the development of Karabakh and its forging ties with Europe.

Azerbaijani students, joined by their British classmates, protested at the injustice. They further appealed to the university administration, saying the films were one-sided and served propaganda purposes.

Nagorno Karabakh, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, has both Azeri and ethnic Armenian population. It was occupied by Armenia in early 1990s, along with seven other Azerbaijani districts, after large-scale hostilities that killed up to 30,000 people and forced over a million Azeris out of their homes. The ceasefire accord was signed in 1994, but peace talks have been fruitless so far and refugees remain stranded.

/AzerNEWS.net/