ياشاسين آذربايجان - Long live Azerbaijan

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A GENRAL COMMUNICATION ON IRANIAN VAIOLATIONS OF SOUTHERN AZERBAIJAN Please find enclosed a General Communication reflecting the situation in Southern Azerbaijan and the scale of the Iranian violation of human and national rights of the nation of Southern Azerbaijan. The situation has been tense since May 2006 and is tense now. This is evident from a broad overview presented through the following documents*:

No: 472/2007
Date: 10/12/2007

The Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva,
Please circulate this letter to:

• The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
• Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
• The Independent Expert on Minority Issues

CC: Mr. Drewery Dyke and Mrs. Ann Harrison, Amnesty International, London

Dear sir/madam,

A GENRAL COMMUNICATION ON IRANIAN VAIOLATIONS OF SOUTHERN AZERBAIJAN

Please find enclosed a General Communication reflecting the situation in Southern Azerbaijan and the scale of the Iranian violation of human and national rights of the nation of Southern Azerbaijan. The situation has been tense since May 2006 and is tense now. This is evident from a broad overview presented through the following documents*:

Document 1: Presents the Communiqué by the participants of the 93rd Anniversary of the death of Settar Khan, the national hero of Azerbaijan. This year it was commemorated on 15 November 2007. We provided you background information last year (please see Ref: 412/2006: Date: 17 November 2006).

Document 2: Presents a reformatted version of reports by ASMEK reflecting the current situation; overviews the current tense situation in Southern Azerbaijan; and highlights some of the most important issues.

This week (on 12 December 2007), Southern Azerbaijan will commemorate the 62nd Anniversary of the national government, which lasted just for a year in 1945-46 but was brutally overthrown through the bloody invasion of Iran. Since then Iranian racist policies have intensified; the interests of the nation of Southern Azerbaijan have been undermined; and her territories have been fragmented. Notwithstanding this, Southern Azerbaijan is now faced with a new threat due to an unholy alliance between Iran-centric officials and groups and Kurdish terrorism to derail the peaceful national movement of Southern Azerbaijan. This is an unholy alliance because Iranian officials act brutally against Kurdish national interests in Iranian Kurdistan but harbour the most unashamed Kurdish territorial illusion at the expense of Azerbaijan. Strangely, racism also lies at the heart of this collusion, as the culprits are allured by their illusive “super Aryan race.” Although no one in sound mind will take seriously such an illusion, they pose risk to the integrity of Southern Azerbaijan and to the peace in the region. We would like to flag this as an issue before you and hold that it is of a concern to the UN charters on human rights.

We hope it is abundantly clear to you that the national movement of Southern Azerbaijan, as a whole, is committed to the non-violent struggle, reminiscent of those of Mahatma Gandhi but directed against Iranian domination. The other character of the Southern Azerbaijani national movement is its determined struggle reminiscent of that of Nelson Mandela but directed against the illusive “pure Aryan racism” of the Iranian racism. We are confident that you have such a full picture before you thanks to formal and informal communications submitted by the various Southern Azerbaijani organisations. The nation of Southern Azerbaijan is impatiently looking forward to your annual reports hoping that you will expose the ongoing Iranian onslaughts against the national movement of Southern Azerbaijan.

Yours sincerely,
Boyuk Resuloglu
The Committee for the Defence of the Rights of World Azerbaijanis

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