ArmInfo.The authorities of Soviet Azerbaijan carried out a policy of hydro-terrorism against the population of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region, press secretary of Artsakh President David Babayan said at the presentation of his monograph "Hydropolitics of the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict".As David Babayan noted, as a result of this policy, 80% of the water resources of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region were concentrated in the hands of Azerbaijanis, while the Armenian population was deprived of the possibility of irrigation and the development of agriculture.
According to him, Baku, under various pretexts, refused to build reservoirs. The only exception was the Sarsang Reservoir, but even here, as Babian noted, the central authorities went to the trick - the reservoir and the hydropower plant were managed from Mirbashir. <A very interesting story, as in the hands of Azerbaijanis was the territory where Arpa and Vorotan originate. We did not find any documents on the transfer of these sections of the AzSSR>, said David Babayan. When the Karabakh liberation movement began, he stressed, Baku did go for a crime. <They began to pour chlorine in excessive amounts into drinking water and rivers. As a result, Karabakh, known worldwide by long-livers, ranked third in the region in oncology, "Babayan said. As the author of the monograph suggests, Azerbaijanis could operate through filtration stations. He noted that at that time the overwhelming majority of the station workers were Azeris. <In the 1980s, an attempt was made to poison the population with creolin.
For two weeks, half of Stepanakert was deprived of drinking water, "Babayan recalled. According to him, now Baku is actively pushing the idea that, allegedly, Armenia is carrying out the burial of nuclear waste in Karvachar and other places. <Of course, this is nonsense, but by the same token Azerbaijan clearly demonstrates that if these territories ever fall into its hands, <documents> will be immediately concocted <confirming> the criminal activities of the Armenians. And this means that in no case should they be allowed to flow to the sources of rivers that ensure the security of Armenia and Artsakh, "he concluded.