Shocking School Video Shows Azerbaijani Students Instructed to Simulate Abuse of ‘Armenian’ Child, Exposing Ongoing Indoctrination

A new video shared by Azerbaijani journalist Javid Akhmedov has again exposed the deep anti-Armenian propaganda that continues inside Azerbaijan’s education system. The footage shows adult men in military uniforms entering a school and staging a violent scene with students. They pretend to capture an “Armenian,” played by a young boy, point a fake gun at his head, and repeatedly force him to say the phrase “Karabakh is Azerbaijan.”

The shocking school performance shows how hatred is being taught to Azerbaijani children at an early age. Instead of providing education, the school becomes a place where students are trained to see Armenians as enemies. Akhmedov himself described the situation in simple and direct words, writing: “Look at this madness in an Azerbaijani school. This is how they brainwash young people. School has become a venue for propaganda, not for education. Students role-play capturing an Armenian and forcing him to say ‘Karabakh is Azerbaijan.’ What a shame for education!”

For Armenians, and especially for the people of Artsakh who were forcibly displaced in 2023, the video is yet another example of Azerbaijan’s long-standing policy of dehumanizing Armenians. This policy has been visible for decades, shaping the environment that made the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh possible. It shows that the hatred did not suddenly appear; it was built through constant state direction and daily messaging aimed at children and adults alike.

Akhmedov also pointed out this wider and older pattern. On his X page he wrote: “Government hatred did not start with Trophy Park. It was clear earlier when Ramil Safarov murdered an Armenian officer with an axe and was welcomed as a hero. Trophy Park follows the same logic with helmets of the dead and racist mannequins for children. This is dehumanization.”

His words remind the world that Azerbaijan’s celebration of violence is not new. In 2004, Azerbaijani soldier Ramil Safarov murdered Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan with an axe while he slept during a NATO training course. Instead of punishing him, Azerbaijan glorified him. Years later, Trophy Park in Baku continued this official encouragement of hatred by displaying the helmets of dead Armenian soldiers and racist mannequins designed to mock Armenians. Children were taken there as if it were a normal museum.

The new school video fits exactly into this pattern. It shows that young Azerbaijanis are trained to believe Armenians must be humiliated, threatened, and controlled. Such messages make any hope for real peace nearly impossible, because they prepare another generation to repeat the hostility of the past.

As Armenia continues to face constant pressure from Azerbaijan, this new evidence shows an essential truth: hatred is not an accident in Azerbaijan. It is taught. It is organized. It is planned. And it is directed at Armenians—children, adults, civilians, and soldiers alike.

The international community must not ignore these warnings. A country that trains its children to reenact the capture of an “Armenian” and forces them to chant political slogans is not preparing for peace. It is preparing for more aggression.

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