BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 19. Grandmaster
Teimur Rajabov responded on social networks with very critical info
to the Armenian chess participant Levon Aronyan, who criticized the
insurance policies of Azerbaijan on his Facebook web page, Trend studies.
Rajabov notes that chess is a world of technique and
intelligence, the place each transfer requires deep thought and cautious
evaluation, and there’s no room for manipulation or lies on this
recreation. It teaches us honesty and justice. Grandmasters, as holders
of excessive chess titles, have absorbed the spirit of this thrilling
recreation and are obliged to keep up honesty not solely on the board however
additionally of their statements.
“But, alas, this isn’t the case with the Armenian chess participant,
three-time Olympic champion Levon Aronian.
I do not forget that throughout the 44-day Second Karabakh War, Aronyan stated
and wrote that he was “ready to take up arms and go to fight.” To
battle, in fact, in opposition to Azerbaijan. But having a mathematical
thoughts, did Aronyan assume that along with his assertion he really
supported Armenia’s territorial claims to Azerbaijan, impressed the
separatists in Khankendi, and thereby made his “mite” to a good
better escalation of the state of affairs within the area? Chess unites
individuals from all corners of the earth, no matter their cultural,
non secular, or political variations. This recreation has grow to be a logo
of peace and diplomacy; even throughout the Cold War, chess gamers
have been mediators and symbols of peace.
For centuries, Armenians and Azerbaijanis lived facet by facet in
good neighborliness, labored collectively, rejoiced, and grieved. But in
the Nineteen Nineties, Armenian chauvinism, separatism, and concepts of “racial,
nationwide, and different superiority” captured the minds of our
neighbors, in addition to Karabakh Armenians, residents of
Azerbaijan.
And after the 44-day Second Karabakh War, when the Armed Forces
of Azerbaijan liberated seven areas of the nation that had been
underneath Armenian occupation for roughly 30 years and compelled
Armenia to capitulate and admit whole defeat, Levon Aronyan was
silent. He was silent when Azerbaijani troopers confirmed villages,
regional facilities, cities, and cities destroyed to the bottom—all of the
homes and buildings changed into a pile of ruins. Aronyan stated
nothing in regards to the Hiroshima of the Caucasus—Aghdam, a metropolis wiped
off the face of the earth by the Armenian occupiers. He was silent
about mosques and homes of worship being destroyed or changed into
stables. Mosques and homes of worship have been destroyed or turned
into stables. About tens of hundreds of brutally tortured and
killed Azerbaijanis About the incalculable struggling attributable to
Armenia, the Armenian occupiers, and separatist gangs in our
nation. No, he was stubbornly silent. Now he has spoken. On his
Facebook profile, he burst out with accusations in opposition to Azerbaijan,
repeating phrase for phrase the phrases of Armenian propaganda and
disinformation. He claims that the Karabakh Armenians “are underneath
blockade; they haven’t any meals or medication.” What kind of “blockade”
are we speaking about when the Agdam-Khankendi highway is functioning,
the checkpoint is working, and cargo shifting in each instructions is
being inspected? It was by means of the efforts of Azerbaijan that each
roads, Aghdam-Khankendi and Lachin-Khankendi, started to function.
Karabakh is an internationally acknowledged land of Azerbaijan, which
is acknowledged by each the world neighborhood and, extra just lately,
Armenia. And the Armenians residing there should combine into
Azerbaijan. And settle for the meals supplied by the Azerbaijani state,
and don’t shut the Aghdam-Khankendi highway. “Let’s get up, individuals.
We can not, by means of our silence, permit one thing to occur that
humanity will probably be ashamed of for hundreds of years. We owe it to our
descendants to speak about what is going on and attempt to attain these
who can change this shameful state of affairs,” writes Levon Aronyan. I
fully agree, Aronyan. Let’s not stay silent; let’s discuss
about the actual genocide dedicated by Armenia in opposition to the
Azerbaijani individuals in Khojaly. About the murders of harmless and
unarmed individuals, outdated individuals have been shot, infants have been impaled on
bayonets, pregnant girls have been burned alive, youngsters have been overwhelmed to
loss of life, and cities and villages have been destroyed the place no stone was
left unturned. About the minefields that we nonetheless should clear for
a few years. Let’s be sincere. A grandmaster’s integrity is not only
an moral commonplace however a key to respect and belief from the chess
neighborhood and society at massive. Each false assertion undermines the
credibility of a chess participant and damages the fame of the
total chess world.
And don’t neglect that grandmasters are chargeable for their
phrases and actions and should adhere to excessive requirements of integrity,”
notes Rajabov.
