SHUSHA, Azerbaijan, July 6. Ensuring historical
justice is a critical challenge, Fatima Tlis, Journalist, Member of
the Council, and Expert Advisor to the World Circassian Agency,
said, Trend's
correspondent reports from the event.
She made the announcement during a panel discussion on “Ethnic
and Cultural Diversity as a Treasure of Humanity” as part of the
international conference on “Cultural and ethnic diversity: lessons
from history, contemporary challenges” in Shusha.
“If a people retains its aspiration for freedom and its national
identity, then attempts to erase it from the pages of history or
assimilate it within artificially created administrative borders
are doomed to failure. As long as the historical homeland of the
Circassians remains a territory of colonial oppression, where the
study of the native language is restricted, and the right of return
is blocked, and as long as the constitutions of the national
republics continue to be stripped of their sovereign substance, the
Circassian issue will remain an unresolved problem and a source of
tectonic political changes,” she said.
An international conference on the topic “Cultural and Ethnic
Diversity: Lessons from History, Contemporary Challenges” is taking
place in Shusha. The event is organized by the “Center for Cultural
and Ethnic Diversity” Public Association in partnership with the
“Silk Road” Public Association for Cultural and Historical
Research. Representatives from Azerbaijan, the United States,
France, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Israel,
Türkiye, and Georgia are participating in the conference.
