Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter’s Adventures in an Oil-rich, War-torn, Post-Soviet Republic 1st Edition by Thomas Goltz (PDF)

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In its first years as an independent state, Azerbaijan was a prime example of post-Soviet chaos – beset by coups and civil strife and astride an ethnic, political and religious divide. Author Goltz was detoured in Baku in mid-1991 and decided to stay, this diary is the record of his experiences.

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Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐While I agree with most of the other reviews (I would take the one that trashs his book with a grain of salt as my guess is that he is an Armenian/NK national that is offended by this book which is very critical of Armenia) I also want to stress that this book should be read (and will be enjoyed) by anyone interested in foreign affairs. It’s true that this book is essential for anyone interested in the Caucasus (as an American working here it was a great introduction to the recent history), the book, in addition to being an interesting story, is also a fascinating look into the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union and the new role of Russia in the region, ethnic conflict, and how international news gets reported and covered. The book definitely opened my eyes and made me a lot more skeptical about everything I read in the paper. If NK is anything to go by, what happens and what gets reported are two extremely different things. While it’s probabably true that the book could have used a bit more editing (you can sort of sense that it is collected from news stories he wrote during the years), that’s really only a minor problem. Don’t let the size of the book daunt you, it’s a relatively quick read. I would also recommend that the next edition have a list of names! It was a little hard to keep track of all the names so a listing at the front of the book would have been helpful. Finally, if you want more information on Azerbaijan an the conflict in N-K, check out the following website….

⭐Reading made me go though fall of Soviet Union and how things were handled there. Very interesting to see it from a lense of a foreigner.

⭐I had to pace myself to prolong the reading experience.

⭐It is interesting to see that negative reviews are either from Armenians or Russians (their allies in the war) or anonymous customers, presumably Armenians as well. Well, I am happy and proud to say that I am an Azeri. I could but won’t (is this the right place really?) bring as many documented examples of the genocide of Azeris by Armenians (so Hojaly nevere happenned, or it happened but was actually executed by Azeris themselves, or the bodies were actually of Armenians killed by Azeris…?). I suppose each is entitled to their ‘objective’ opinion on the book and the conflict, but the attemps to rewrite history (including, co-incidentally and rather amuzingly, prior history of the Azeri nation) are not made by the author of this book – they are made by these reviewers who forget one simple fact: that 20% of Azerbaijan’s territory is still occupied by Armenia (not the other way around!), including territories other than Nagorny Karabah (which is where my mother and many generations of her predecessors are from), and that over 1 million of Azeris were made refugees from their historic homeland. They use this review board as a platform to launch hateful and degrading remarks about Azerbaijan and the Azeri people, clearly revealing little more than their own blinding and blindingly obvious bias in the matter. Whoever is on their side is right and telling the full truth – the rest are liars, spies, etc

⭐Twice during the recent years, in 1992 and in 1994, I visited Azerbaijan with a group of other French journalists. All I have heard about this country was the war in Karabakh and oil reserves. I was biased, filled with pro-Armenian information typical to most of the Western media. However, the truth I found, from first hands, eyewitnesses, people who experienced the horrors of that bloody conflict changed my view by 180 degrees. I think the author of this book, Thomas Goltz, underwent the same experience as I did.In fact, Armenia proved to be the aggressor, Azerbaijan was the victim! The crimes of Armenian military units against Azerbaijani women, children, elderly can not be described in any human language. Dead bodies were mutilated, eyes pierced, ears torn, people were burned alive. I know that because I have seen the pictures and actually visited the sites of these massacres. And I am grateful to Thomas Goltz that he made sure the world knows about the truth. Particularly, the chapter of the book concerning Khodjali massacre deserve a special recognition. Who were those Armenian militants, what did they want?They were so-called “freedom fighters”, their desire was to create “Great Armenia”, “Black Sea to Caspian”, “to clean Caucasus from Azeri Turks’ (i.e. Azerbaijanis). They were armed by Russian weapons and ideological fiction of Armenian “historians” which completely ignored the facts and rewrote the entire history of the region. Their idea was about the “supreme”, “most ancient” Armenian nation which has a “historical right” to take back “its lands”, by killing, raping destroying everybody on its way. And that is how the Karabakh war started.Ironically, this ancient Azerbaijani land now invaded by Armenian military was the home for most of Azerbaijani poets, writers, musicians. There is no credible record in the history that Karabakh ever belonged to Armenia. Even the ancient churches in there were built by Caucasian Albanians, the Christian ancestors of modern Muslim Azerbaijanis. The first Armenians moved there only 150 years ago, supported by Russian Empire.Anyway, it is sad that Thomas Goltz is one of the few reporters who had enough courage to write the truth about this region. The conflict is still not finished, and Azerbaijan is still subject to illegal Armenian occupation on the verge of 21st century. The country with huge oil reserves and strategic interests of the West is also a constant subject of Russian political-economical attack. Unfortunately, century long propaganda machine of Armenia managed to mislead the world and hide the crimes committed against Azerbaijani population of Karabakh and other lands invaded by Armenians.

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