29 March 2000

The deportation and genocide policy of Armenians directed against Azerbaijanis was skillfully disguised under the pretext of internationalism during the years of Soviet rule. With the help of Soviet Russia, Zangezur and a number of other Azerbaijani lands were declared Armenian territory. Armenians succeeded in mass deportation of Azerbaijanis from their historical lands in 1948–1953 at the state level – by the decision of the leadership of the USSR, which pursued a discriminatory policy against the Turkish-Muslim republics.