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The media coverage biased Armenian-Azeri conflict

Antoine Constant

Azerbaijan , 2002 328:

"The Soviet and Western media made the" Azeri Muslim fanatics "responsible for the tragedy, a persistent prejudice and invariably used in the treatment media throughout the conflict.
The Armenian side, which, however, woke the old demons, knew how to cultivate a image of victim that earned him a positive tendency in the West, but also in the USSR.
The months that followed gave rise to cross-migration of population loss, leakage or voluntary operated under duress. Armenia still had 5% of Azeris on his territory, about 174 000 people in the Zangezur (Goris, Kapan, Meghri) in some villages in the plain of the Aras river and the border districts Idjevan, Vardenis and Krasnoselsk, and in smaller numbers in Yerevan. In Karabakh, groups were formed and Khojalu Shousha. The Armenians left the same way Soumqaït, Ganja, where brutality reported silent, and rural districts between the autonomous region and the Kura, where they were concentrated in several villages and in smaller numbers in Nakhichevan. Their number remained high in Baku. In autumn 1988, there were 75,000 refugees in Azerbaijan, in December there were about 100,000 without their very difficult living conditions do generate a lot of comments of compassion in the media. " See also: History of Armenians in the Caucasus: the unleashing of nationalist violence in Armenia during the Soviet decomposition