Baku, August 16, AZERTAC

The Armenians, who have a unique talent for lying, slandering and committing the most heinous crimes under the guise of being oppressed, have recently launched yet another smear campaign full of ugly accusations against Azerbaijan. Having themselves committed unspeakable crimes and acts of genocide against the Azerbaijani people, who have embraced them, given them bread and extended their helping hand to the Armenians ever since they set their foot in the South Caucasus, they are now trying to convince the world community that they are facing the threat of extermination due to a “humanitarian disaster” and “famine” in Karabakh. Things have reached a point when the “ombudsman” of the so-called “Nagorno-Karabakh Republic” claimed on a social network (twitter) and other Armenian media and social network pages that a certain K. Hovhannisyan, a resident of the city of Khankendi born in 1983, had allegedly died due to not taking food for a long time. By spreading this ludicrous information, the Armenians are actually putting themselves in a ridiculous situation in the eyes of the world.

The director of the Forensic Medical Examination and Pathological Anatomy Union under the Ministry of Health, Doctor of Medicine, Professor Adalat Hasanov convincingly proves that these claims by the Armenians are completely unfounded. AZERTAC presents the commentary of Professor Adalat Hasanov.

“I would like to note in relation to this false and conjured-up information that when the photo was taken, the scale was not placed on or next to the body, so it is not clear on which date, in which country and city the photo was taken. The image shows the front of a male body stretched out on an autopsy table. Since the body lies on its back, its abdomen is depressed, which is not a sign of hunger or starvation. The fresh-looking injuries on the front surface of the body and traces of old injuries of different durations (scratches and bruises, scar tissue) are arousing certain suspicion. Since the photo shows only the front surface of the body, it is impossible to say anything about other injuries or changes in other parts of the body.

In addition, two oval-shaped defibrillation marks can be seen on the front left side of the chest as a result of the resuscitation measures on the heart. This means that the person did not die at home or on the street, but rather in the intensive care unit of a hospital, so the patient did receive resuscitation measures in intensive care.

It is impossible to ascertain the cause of the person’s death based on the photograph alone, not even on the basis of external visual examination of the corpse. This is an absurd idea, which has nothing to do with reality and professionalism. We are deeply saddened and surprised that the corpse was diagnosed with “having been starved to death” based only on external appearance and external examination.

The appearance in the photograph is not cachexia at all. It is simply the body structure of a person who has lost weight. Such body structure can be found not only in the corpse, but also in living and healthy persons.

Rather than alimentary cachexia, this type of appearance is quite common in our daily practice among drug addicts, chronic alcoholism patients leading a vagrant lifestyle, cancer and other malignant oncological patients (cancer cachexia), AIDS patients (HIV-infection), people suffering from chronic sepsis, tuberculosis, cerebral palsy, chronic gastrointestinal diseases (colitis, enterocolitis, chronic ulcer of the stomach or duodenum, etc.) and other serious diseases.

Chronic starvation results in changes occurring in human organs and tissues, and this is called “Cachexia of alimentary origin”. During alimentary cachexia, the color of the skin turns grayish-bronze, and is not as white and clean as shown in the picture. The diagnosis of alimentary cachexia cannot be established by a photograph and external examination of the corpse. We reiterate that the information being circulated is not based on any medical knowledge.”