French well-known magazine Le Monde published an article about the dictatorship in Azerbaijan. As Armenian panorama.am writes Azerbaijani “Azadlig” has published the whole article by Giyom Perye.
“Eurovision” is the first international meaningful event which young Azerbaijani Republic hosts. It is a great opportunity for Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who leads the country since 2003 with strong fists, to make a self-propaganda. This small state between Russia and Iran is rich with natural resources. It now tries to attract European investors presenting itself as worldly and connected with the modern values. But in reality there is a wild leadership in Azerbaijan which took whole natural resources in its hands.
On 2009 Aliyev provided chance for himself to be elected as a President till the end of his life. Presidential elections in Azerbaijan will be just formal on 2013. Aliyevs’ clan keeps the natural resources of the state in its hands for already 45 years. Aliyev now does it jointly with his wife’s family. Leader of new Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev leads the country by his father’s cult: Heydar Aliyev’s photos and mottos are on all corners of the state. Every year on May 10, on H. Aliyev’s birthday Flowers’ Day is organized in Azerbaijan and 70 million USD is spent on it. I. Aliyev prevents democracy in the state very carefully. The international organizations make accusations towards Azerbaijan after every election. Parliamentarian elections on 2010 were so falsified that no one opposition member could appear in the Parliament.
Azerbaijani show as if they have tolerant attitude to the opposition parties in the country but thousands members of those parties appear in prisons frequently. The meetings are forbidden here. No word about human rights protection can be here. There are jailed journalists in Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani authorities are afraid Arabic revolutions can be repeated in their state as well. And that is why hundreds of protestors have appeared in prisons.
Great countries and European countries as well want to use Azerbaijani oil and create alternative lines of oil besides Russia. NATO wants to settle anti-racket systems in Azerbaijan.
“Now Azerbaijani relations are strained with Russia and Iran. And in this context it tries to become closer to Israel. Some frames do not like this. Israel claims to settle military base against Iran”, the newspaper writes.
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