A “cancerous tumour”. “Dogs”. “Humanoid creatures”. If these descriptions were attributed to editorials in Der Stürmer — the rabidly antisemitic daily whose publisher, Julius Streicher, was condemned to death during the Nuremberg trials — that would be eminently believable. Yet, all these terms were used during this past year by official bodies of a member state of the Council of Europe to describe a much-maligned ethnic group. The Armenian Diaspora was thus referred to as a “cancerous tumour of Europe” by the International and Inter-Parliamentary Relations Committee of Azerbaijan’s Milli Mejlis – its parliament; “dogs” and “humanoid creature” were just some of the many instances of dehumanizing language directed by the country’s head of state, Ilham Aliyev, against ethnic Armenians.
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