ياشاسين آذربايجان - Long live Azerbaijan

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Please find enclosed General Communication for defending the mother language of the nation of Southern Azerbaijan. We have provided you a series of Communications in the past (e.g. Ref: 445/2007 on 22 February 2007 and Ref: 447/2007 on 5 March 2007), to keep you informing by evidence that the Islamic Republic of Iran violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights even with respect to the basic right of education in mother language.

No: 487/2008
Date: 25 February 2008

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: UNESCO
Mr. Dyke and Mrs. Harrison, Amnesty International, London

In Arbitrary detention

Dear sir/madam,

GENERAL COMMUNICATION 2: IRANIAN VIOLATION OF THE MOTHER LANGUAGE OF THE NATION OF SOUTHERN AZERBAIJAN

Please find enclosed General Communication for defending the mother language of the nation of Southern Azerbaijan. We have provided you a series of Communications in the past (e.g. Ref: 445/2007 on 22 February 2007 and Ref: 447/2007 on 5 March 2007), to keep you informing by evidence that the Islamic Republic of Iran violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights even with respect to the basic right of education in mother language.

This year too, the nation of Southern Azerbaijan showed determination to celebrate the International Mother Language Day but the Iranian authorities once again resorted to violence. We provide you the following evidence for the Iranian onslaught against Southern Azerbaijan related to the International Mother Language Day in 2008^*:

Table 1: Overview of the scale of activities planned by Southern Azerbaijanis for celebrating this international day
Table 2: A petition was lodged by Southern Azerbaijanis to the UNESCO
Table 3: Formation of the Centre for Language and Culture in Southern Azerbaijan
Table 4: Campaign initiatives by Southern Azerbaijanis
Table 5: Iranian onslaught by creating a suppressive atmosphere and individuals suffered arbitrary detentions

The information in Table 2 should be highlighted that is the petition organised by Southern Azerbaijanis is for the attention of Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura, the Director-General of UNESCO. Under-signatories have nearly reached 18,000 individuals and considering that the Internet access in Southern Azerbaijan is effectively filtered out by the Iranian authorities, this is a massive indictment of the nation of Southern Azerbaijan against the Iranian authorities.

We have been providing you a sufficient amount of evidence that the Iranian authorities are spearheading their singular policies using all the resources of the country to exclusively serve the Farsi nation to promote their so called “Aryan” race. The Iranian authorities are in contempt of your mandates on the right to education in mother language and the defence of the mother language of the nation of Southern Azerbaijan is only feasible through your mandates. We are rallying for your campaign to defend our mother language. We thank you in advance for your care.

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

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