Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev made another bellicose statement on the sixth anniversary of the Azerbaijani occupation of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)—deprived of its entire Armenian population—which Baku calls “Victory Day.”

“Those who were sitting in this building [the former executive power building in Karabakh’s capital Stepanakert, ed.] are war criminals who have served a deserved sentence,” he said. “They wanted to come to Baku in tanks, they wanted to drink tea in Baku.

They made arrogant statements because they enjoyed the patronage of certain forces and thought that they would pursue an occupation policy forever. But we showed them who was who,”

Aliyev added. In his statement, the Azerbaijani president—under whose rule there are no Armenians left either in his own country or in occupied Artsakh, and Armenian Christian cultural and historical monuments are being destroyed—claimed that in his country “representatives of all religions live like one family.”