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Armenia

Opinion | Accepting our past is the only way we can move forward

by Javid Agha

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In Azerbaijan, as in Armenia, remembrance of the victims of past atrocities often takes on a one-sided nature. Despite attempts to twist and politicise such events to serve nationalist causes, a more compassionate approach is needed to move forward, and a remembrance that above all, innocent victims are always sacred. Last week, Azerbaijan mourned her martyrs who fell during the Soviet violence committed 29 years ago in the capital, Baku. TV channels aired patriotic movies (ironically

Azerbaijan

Children’s cemetery in Sumqayit

by Volodymyr Soboliev

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By Lala Aliyeva The children’s cemetery in Sumqayit is a dark reminder of the high level of children born with birth defects. The Sumgayit cemetery reveals the tragic story that was hidden for so long during the Soviet period. Dead babies don’t lie. “A mixture of strange feelings came over me when I first heard about the children’s cemetery in my home city of Sumgayit. Curiosity pushed me forward to learn more and I started to gather information and asked the older generations includin