In the first week of an academic year students from secondary School Number 6 in Baku launched a nation-wide initiative supporting the international awareness campaign “Justice for Khojaly”, initiated by Mrs. Leyla Aliyeva, General Coordinator for Intercultural Dialogue of the OIC Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation. This campaign is aimed at raising awareness on Khojaly massacre to secondary school students of Europe and OIC member states.
To this end, in the first two weeks of the school year during History class (Knowledge Day and the Day of Peace), students all over Azerbaijan are being informed about the Khojaly tragedy. In addition, during Computer science classes students are being informed about the campaign “Justice for Khojaly;” in particular, they are being presented with the official Web site of the campaign (www.justiceforkhojaly.org) and are being instructed on the rules for its use.
After getting familiar with resources of the Web site students from School Number 6 sent an invitation to their fellow pupils from around the world to join this campaign. The letter, drafted by students of School Number 6 said: “On the Day of Knowledge (September 15) we urge you to get familiar with the Khojaly tragedy and express our protest against this massacre on World Peace Day (September 21)”.
On Feb. 25-26 2009, presentations of the Justice for Khojaly campaign were held in 25 countries. By the initiative of the Islamic Conference Youth Forum at recent conferences and summits of the Organization of Islamic Conference; documents that assess the Khojaly tragedy as a “massacre” and a crime against humanity were adopted.
Justice for Khojaly International Civil Awareness Campaign encourages everyone to support the SIGNATURE action and sign the online declaration.
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