Freedom House completely discredited itself long ago

"Therefore, it is senseless to comment on the map, drawn by some twofold people who have sold themselves in an attempt to make more money”, Elnur Aslanov, chief of the political analysis and information department at the Azerbaijan Presidential Administration, told reporters Saturday.

A few days ago Freedom House published the so-called “Map of freedom – 2009” where it indicated Armenia as “partially free” and Nagorno-Karabakh as disputed area between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

“The shady business that is not able to define the unquestioned belonging of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan in line with the basic norms of international law and indicates Armenia-an aggressor country which held an ethnic cleansing in the Azerbaijani land - as a partially free country shows how one can make money on “double standards”.

It sets the desired for the reality keeping eyes close on the political prisoners arrested in Armenia after 1 March and still held in Yerevan jails, including 5 deputies, an editor-in-chief and 16 participants of demonstrations before elections.  

How can one call the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh where militants make up the whole population and elections and other democratic institutions are not recognized by the world community as “partially free”?

The answers to these questions are obvious.

- Why is Freedom House silent about the fact that Armenia forced a million of Azerbaijani citizens to flee their homes and their lands?

- Why are they silent when Armenian nationalists and separatists are destroying the heritage of the Azerbaijani national culture and art in Karabakh?

- Where was this organization when Azerbaijani captives including women and children were tortured and maltreated in Armenia?

- Why didn’t Freedom House display any interest in the living conditions of the Azerbaijani refugees?

Can one trust a single word of this structure after all? Everyone knows that this organization is working at the order.

The goals of such maps drawn without the due methodology, the visits to the region, the studying of the real situation and, most important, a comparative analysis are obvious in conditions of the financial crisis.

Today Freedom House meets the interests of only those who allocate $8 mln to Nagorno-Karabakh separatists.

These are the people who want to see Nagorno-Karabakh as a grey area transiting drugs and sheltering terrorists, the area which is used for laundering the financial investments of the Armenian diaspora and various other groups”, Elnur Aslanov concluded.