A fewer weeks ago, as president of the Polish-Armian NUR Cultural Initiative Institute Foundation on invitation Polish Armenian Culture and Heritage Foundation I took part in the beginning An exhibition dedicated to the mass murders that were committed in Baku in 1905 by the then Caucasian Tatars known present as the Azerbaijanes on the local Armenian community.
An exhibition resembling the bandit pogroms was opened in the building of the John Paul II Public Library in Rembertów. late I learned that the content of the exhibition was powerfully disliked by the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Poland. Ambassador Azerbaijan himself arrived at the library building in a strong speech demanding the presentation of the Azerbaijani version of those events in the form of an annex to the Armenian exhibition.
The content was to be supplemented by expressions indicating that the Armenians had actually begun and that they were the ones who murdered the Azerbaijani. However, the facts are that the Azers began but the Armenians' fact in retaliation and self-defense began to execution them. It is about the same kind of pretension as Ukrainians today, who claim that the massacre in Volyn is liable for Poles themselves who treated Ukrainians badly. during the interwar period and then in 1943 they besides murdered Ukrainians. There is, however, a fundamental difference between killing and killing in retaliation, and to halt the perpetrators, as the Azers and Ukrainians do not understand.
Unfortunately, the authorities of the library in Rembertov have given in to force and have agreed to add a board with the Azerbaijani imagination of those events, which is scandalous due to the fact that it not only reconciles with historical facts but shows that in the territory of the country the Polish delegation of a abroad state imposes its will on the host. After all, nobody defends in Poland the Embassy of Azerbaijan the organization of their own exhibitions, which he regularly does by conducting well organized propaganda in the territory of Poland as well as their Turkish relatives. However, there can be no active interference in the content of exhibitions presented in Polish state or local institutions.
Arkadius Miksa
