Azadlig: Azerbaijani authorities are guided by motto ‘‘arrest a conscientious citizen for every military victim’’
The arrest of human rights defenders and the deaths in the Azerbaijani army in recent days is a huge whack to the Azerbaijani authorities and the country, so that this period will be called a "shameful history" for a long time, reads the article in the Azerbaijani newspaper "Azadlig".
As noted in the article, the Azerbaijani authorities blame the "Armenians" because of the lack of their talent in everything. "They call the most conscientious and patriotic people "pro-Armenians". However, the greatest treason of the fatherland is ill-treatment with their citizens. The authorities have decided to take revenge for their fallen soldiers from their own people. Within these days, the authorities have acted under the following slogan "arrest a conscientious citizen for each dead soldier," the newspaper writes.
According to the article, the government of Azerbaijan, mobilizing all its resources has always pursued "tax evasion", "pro-Armenian people", "law-breakers", while the main purpose of signing the cease-fire was to declare war against their own people.
As noted in the article, the Azerbaijani authorities came out of the recent events as losers. First of all, it became clear that there are huge numbers of flaws in the army. And then it turned out that the authorities are afraid of those who have no army, no money, no weapons. The arrests of Leyla Yunus, Rasul Jafarov and Intiqam Aliyev showed that for the authoritarian government the most dangerous people are those with conscience.
"In a word, the social and political activists arrested one after another can be called "prisoners of truce," the newspaper writes.
The article also notes that under the current political system it is impossible to build a strong army. "Philosophy of corruption, ideology of corruption, world view of corruption gave birth to exactly what they could in today's Azerbaijan. In our country, where starting from the police up to the judges are all corrupt, and the educational system is broken because of corruption too, the search for a strong army is aimless," the article reads.