"The fierce struggle waged by Azerbaijan against the state symbols of the Artsakh Republic is another manifestation of the xenophobic behavior of the Azerbaijani authorities towards the Armenians," the Human Rights Ombudsman of Artsakh Gegham Stepanyan said in statement on Friday.
The Ombudsman referred to the case of clearing the symbols of Artsakh statehood with knives from a bus and demands to remove the Artsakh flag from various buildings of Artsakh, naming them "vivid examples of the complete lack of tolerance of Azerbaijanis towards Armenians living in Artsakh."
"We must keep in mind that the symbols of Artsakh statehood are an integral pa...
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