Diplomacy by Distortion: Azeri propaganda shifts to Khojalu in wake of two publicity failures

Traditionally in February, when an anniversary of the Khojalu tragedy is marked, Azerbaijan is using its diplomatic and propaganda machine to invite the world attention to the Armenian "atrocities" during the 1992-1994 war in Karabakh.

This year, however, this campaign has been particularly vigorous in view of at least two propaganda failures suffered by Baku in the last several months.

Since August, the Azerbaijani propaganda, in which millions of dollars have been invested, has failed to reap benefits from at least two cases that from seemingly big victories turned into crushing defeats. The first was the case of Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov, who had brutally murdered a fellow Armenian student in Hungary in 2004 and was serving a life jail term in Budapest before being extradited and quickly pardoned in Azerbaijan last August. The pardoning of the "national hero" by the Azeri president and other honors given to the axe-murderer upon his return to Azerbaijan enraged not only Armenia, but also most of the civilized world.  Read more... (763 words)

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