Warning! Provocation!

Yuri Kramar, exclusively for Vestnik Kavkaza

The Azerbaijani liberal opposition and “professional” foreign human rights activists are discussing the “political reasons” for the beating of an employee of the Nakhichevan Resource Center for Development of NGOs and Democracy, Ilgar Nasibov. Local law-enforcement agencies arrested a man who attacked Nasibov. During questioning he had spoken about details which didn’t match the image of “a heroic human rights activist who became a victim of democracy’s enemies.”

It was found out that Farid Askerov, a resident of Nakhichevan, was an old friend of Nasibov. He was round at Nasibov’s place, and friends organized a small party with a great amount of alcohol drinks. The drunken host said rude things about the relatives of the guest who got angry. There was a fight, and the beaten journalist was put into intensive care.

But such an explanation didn’t satisfy human rights colleagues of Nasibov. Under different circumstances their arguments could evoke a smile: according to them, Askerov was the former chair of the local office of the Civic Solidarity Party; he was twice as younger as Nasibov; and the victim’s wife didn’t sense the smell of alcohol.

Can only former or current leaders of parties fight with their acquaintances? I think a common trouble-maker can easily become a “hero” of criminal reports.

Was the aggressor much younger than Nasibov? Probably that’s why the journalist was put into intensive care – youth means strength. Or maybe critics of the official version think that only peers can fight with each other?

An “analysis of alcohol intoxication” in the form of statements by the victim’s wife, who is interested in “the non-alcoholic version”, is nonsense! Does the court consider evidence of wives who haven’t “sensed the smell of alcohol”, when traffic police arrest drunken drivers?

The versions of the Nakhichevan case by opposition critics and the Western mass media which supports them don’t hold water. And nobody would pay attention to them, but for one thing. It seems a serious provocation is being prepared in the country.

All color revolutions started from an “initiated” provocation. For example, ahead of the first Maidan in Ukraine in 2004, the so-called murder of the editor of one of leading opposition periodicals “Ukrainian Pravda”, Georgy Gongadze, was a reason for it. “So-called” because neither the periodical nor Gongadze’s mother confirmed the fact of murder. The body was beheaded; and they say that letters from “the regime’s victim” are still being received. But it didn’t prevent a wave of criticism and direct defamation of President Kuchma by the opposition and Western mass media – “the authorities kill opposition journalists!” The result was the Maidan’s victory and the coming of America’s protégé Yushchenko.

During the last riots in Kiev, its “puppetmasters” also thought about a sacral victim. That’s why many “symbols” of the opposition immediately left the country, realizing that it was better to be alive than to be a dead hero. Initiators of the Maidan had to act without a murder.

We shouldn’t comfort ourselves with the fact that there is a lot of time before the elections in Azerbaijan (the best time for organization of anti-governmental riots by Western NGOs). The Ukrainian Maidan of 2014 started a year before the planned presidential elections and succeeded. Any provocation with the participation of some Azerbaijani “human rights activists” could turn into chaos at any moment if the West decides to promote it.

Anyone can suddenly become a sacral victim. An NGO employee gets into a car accident – the police organized the accident. He was beaten by trouble-makers – the authorities are trying to get rid of opposition activists. Or he quietly dies of an illness at home or hospital – he was poisoned and so on.

There is only one way to resist such practices – to treat the staff of NGOs, according to their own principles: “All citizens are equal before the law.” They shouldn’t search for non-existent evidence of political attempts on lives and contract murders in domestic crimes.

Such “human rights activists” defend the rights not of citizens, but their bosses who live far from Azerbaijan. They are interested in the destruction of long-lasting stability and economic growth, in the creation of controlled chaos, control of power and the natural resources of the country. These interests are opposite to the interests of fair citizens. This is the main argument in understanding the true essence of the provocations organized by Western agents.