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Immediately after the parliamentary election voting held on June 21, 2021, new dangerous manifestations of dividing people into groups, developing insults and hatred and intolerance were brought to the public domain, the Office of the Human Rights Defender has said. We are talking about the artificial divisions that deepen the polarization of the society “villagers and city people”, “literate-illiterate”, and other names given to each other is connected with the voting results. At the heart of this vicious discourse are the reprehensible theses of insulting people with the words “old and new”, “black and white”, “mud”, “zombie”, “traitor” and others.

Some government officials and supporters retaliate against the opposition and their supporters with insulting remarks, and then the opposite happens. As a result, the whole society finds itself in a closed chain of tension due to insults, swearing and retaliation.

The Human Rights Defender calls on all political forces, public figures, and clergy to refrain from actions that exacerbate and increase tensions, insult or hate speech or contribute to it.