Əziz
soydaşlar:
2002-ci
il Babək qalası ilə bağlı Avrupa şurası,
Birləşmiş Millətlər Təsşkilatı və
Amnesty internatıonala yazdığımız bir müraciəti
huzurlarınıza göndərirəm. Bu müraciətə
verilən cavab o zamanki müsavat qazetinde derc olsada bugünkü ağir
şəraitdə daha artıq fəaliyət zərurəti
aydındır. Ücüz dedi-qodu
və üzücü çətinlikləri saymamazlıqdan
gələrək hər kəs imkanları daxilində Güneydəki
dirənişə yardım əli uzaltmalıdır.
Yuxarıda
qeyd etdiyim məktubda Əziz dostum qocaman mübariz Mənuçehr
bəy Əzizinin- də adının geçməsi
bəhanəsi ilə iki məsələyə toxunmaq
istəyirəm.
1-Gizlətmək
lazım deyilki bugün Güney Azərbaycanda ağır şərait
mövcüddür. Yeni prezident iş başına gələndən
bəri asdı-kəski siyasəti bütün gücü ilə davam edir.
Dostlarımızın çoxu ya zindandadır ya
məhkəmələrdə süründürülməkdə və ya gözə
görünməkdən çəkinərək çətin həyat sürməkdədirlər.
Daxildəki bu ağır şərait qarşısında
xaricdəkilər əlindən gələni etməyə biraz
tələsməlidirlər. Onların məzlumiyyət
səsini dünyanın və beynəlxalq təşkilatların
qulağına daha uca səslə çatdırmalıdırlar. yaşadıqları
ölkələrdə hüquq müdafiə təşkilatları qurup,
siyasi zindanilərimizi müdafiə etməlidirlər. Təzahüratlar
qoyub, başımıza gələnləri və içəridəkilərin
ədalət hayqırışını gur səslə bağırmalıdırlar.
Özəlliklə gücümüzün çox olduğu London, stokholm, Vaşinqton,
Köln, Ankara, Bakı kimi şəhərlərdə milli mübarizlərimiz
daha çox fəal olmalıdırlar.
2-
Sancaqladığım o müraciətdə
illər boyu zəhmət çəkən, tutulan
məhkəmələrdə sürünən dostlarımızın
çoxunun adını bugünlərdəki mübarizə meydanında,
zindan və şkəncə hücrələrində də görürük.
Şübhə yoxdurki, iti qılınc ilə üz-üzə dayanan
bu insanlar bu yeni şəraitdə
mübarizənin metodunu dəqiqləşdirəcəklər.
Ancaq
onların içində dəyərli dostumuz və mübariz soydaşımız
cənab Məncöhr bəy Əzizinin də adının
olması nədəni ilə ağsaqqallılarımızdan gözləninən
davranışlara toxunmaq
istəyirĉm. Fikrimcə güneydəki dəyərli ağsaqqallımız
cənab Əzizi bəyin ortaya atdığı yeni mübarizə
metodunu yoxlamalıdırlar. Əslində
o, Lahə beynalxalq divanına yazdığı şikayət
ilə mübarizəmizdə yeni
bir yol açır.
Yaşlı
nəslimiz sinə gərərk, ayağa qalxmış xalqımızın
önünə düşməsələr, haqlarımızın alınması
daha da uzana bilər. Aslan ürəkli cavanlarımız vurdu qaçdı
siyasəti yürüdərkən dədə qorqud
ürəkli qocamanlarımız milli hərəkətimizi
başarıya doğru aparmağı bacaracqlar.
Dərin
hörmətlərimlə Böyük Rəsuloğlu
10.11.06
Tarix: 19.08.2002
No:221/2002
To: Dr Walter Schwimmer -
President of
Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly
To:Dr.Mary
Robinson-
High Commissioner of UN on Humann Rights in Geneva-
Switzerland
Your Excellency
It is a no longer a hidden fact that rights of over 30 million Southern
Azerbaijanis in Islamic Republic of Iran are grossly violated. This shameful
reality of violation of rights of our compatriots, to the extent that they are
even deprived of education in their own mother tongue, is in sharp contrast with
European democracy, UN conversions and international conscious. We have been
involved in a campaign of disclosing institutionalised racist policies of
Islamic Republic of Iran, against Southern Azerbaijanis and her assimilation
tactics for the past years. The bitter reality is, this brutal policy of
cultural genocide is taking place by a very regime, that is an advocate of
dialogue of civilisations. In order to eradicate this injustice imposed upon us,
our peace-loving nation has intensified its just struggle in recent years, by
democratic means.
Hoping to highlight the plight of our nation we wrote a letter to
Secretary General of the United Nation, Mr. Kofi Anan on 11.02.2000 (Reference
No. 098/2000) and attached a fifteen page explanatory document in support of our
allegations. We would like to attach another copy of those documents, plus
a map of Islamic Republic of Iran with the areas where Azerbaijani Turks live
and a statistical table derived from Islamic Republic of Iran's sources in 1997.
Council of Europe's representative's officials visits to Tehran in July
encouraged us to open another avenue to campaign for legitimate rights of our
nation. We are certain that this will not be your last envoy in Tehran,
therefore we have a duty to provide you with facts and documents about
Azerbaijanis living in Islamic republic of Iran and plead for your intervention
to prevent a major catastrophe from happening.
Your Excellency,
We are writing to urge you upon assisting us in freeing our
compatriots, whom have been detained by Iranian Intelligent officers, in recent
weeks and inform you of enormous pressure exerted on us by Iranian regime. Our
nation has risen up to restore their long overdue legitimate rights. Every year
a huge mass of our compatriots gathers in Babek Castle on the occasion of his
Birthday. Babek national hero of Azerbaijanis has fought an honorable fight
against Arab invaders 1200 years ago, to rid his people of occupational forces.
In order to discourage people from peaceful march towards the Babek
castle on 4and 5th of July of this year, Iranian regime stepped up it's
antidemocratic actions by arresting hundreds of organisers and participants.
Despite all these efforts hundreds of thousands of our compatriots took part in
the march to voice their dissatisfaction with the current situation once again.
What we most fear is detention of prominent Azerbaijanis who participated in the
march and subjecting them to various known inhuman methods for discouraging them
from participating in this yearly event. Please be ware that today's tragedies
if ignored, can be prelude to tomorrow's massacres. Based on the information we
have received so far in order to halt this movement, Iranian Regime has taken
following desperate actions:
1. On the first of July scores of people were arrested in Tebriz,
Urmiya, Qezvin and Zenjan. We have the name of some of these detainees who are
still in prison.
Elyas Yekani, Ashiq Jebrayil and Mahammad Bastanichi
were released on bail while Adigozel
Eghdam is still
in jail. Those released on bail are expecting long jail and heavy fines in court
if international communities do not intervene.
2. Some 79 Southern Azerbaijani Rights
activists of Urmiya, Zenjan, Tebriz, Erdebil and Tehran have been ordered to
report themselves to Iranian Intelligence offices and forced to a written
commitment not to attend the march. ( Hasan Ark, Yusif Dasran, Hasan Azerbaijan, Manuchehr Azizi,
Hamid Shafayi, Mahammad Reza Nasiriyan, Ali Mahmudi, Ahmad Heydaroghlu, ve
)
3. All transportation companies in Southern Azerbaijan were ordered
not to take passengers to the castle by threatening non-obedient companies with
prosecution. Iranian regime by taking these preventive measures was hoping
to lower the number of participants to 30-40 thousands, but to their
disappointment up to a million people marched to the Babek Castle and security
forces had no option but to withdraw from the scene.
4. All vehicles that were heading towards the castle stopped, searched,
their registration numbers were taken, and passengers were filmed by numerous
checkpoints set up by security forces.
5. After the events fifteen participants including three ladies were
arrested. Later
on three were released, 5 were handed over to revolutionary court, 7 were taken
to an unknown location (
Zohreh Vafayi, Mahmud Yekanli, Jamshid Azari, Mahni Zenjanli and
)
6.During
the days of Babek, Northern Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan Republic) tourists were
mistreated and passports of some of them were confiscated on suspicion of
attending the march. Two ladies and three gentlemen have lodged a complaint
about behaviour of Islamic Republic of Iran's officials to CPWAR.
7. Head of Iranian revolutionary court in Tebriz known as Mahmudi
extraordinarily admitted the mass participation of people in the march and used
scare-mongering tactics by threatening participants of next years to dire
consequences of their action. He branded the participants Panturkist that can
carry the death penalty if convicted in court of law.
8. One month after the big march, Iranian Secret Police is continuing to
arrest those whom have been spotted in the scores of films they have taken of
the event. Some Azerbaijani Cultural Centers which have previously managed to
obtain license for their activities were now closed without any explanation.(
Goverchin Cultural Centre in Erdebil)
We believe international community and council of Europe have moral
and legal obligations to prevent a catastrophe from happening. Our only defence
is international public opinion.
May we thank you for your time and attention.
The World Azerbaijanis Rights Defence Comitee
Boyuk Rasuloghlu
Cc: To Dear friend Mr. Drewery Dyke - Amnesty International London