[b]ACTUAL QUOTE
Receb Tayyib ERDOGAN,Turkish Prime Minister:
“Russia, France and USA, which were the three co-chairs of the Minsk Group of OSCE, showed a major negligence in the Nagorno-Karabakh solve process. Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan would not be experiencing the current problems if Russia and France had taken the necessary actions over the last 20 years. UN confirmed Armenia’s invasion as well. The problem will end once this invasion is over”.
From the statement by TRT TV in Ankara, January 31, 2010
Yusuf bin Alawi bin ABDULLAH, Foreign Minister of Oman
“Everyone knows that Armenia occupied Azerbaijani territories by the military way. The Sultanate of Oman is always supporting the Azerbaijan’s position and advocated for restoration of its territorial integrity”.
From the interview to IA APA in Baku, February 3, 2010
Alexander SEVASTYANOV, Russian political figure, co-authors of the book “Russian about Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis”:
“Azerbaijanis were always the true allies of Russia. They never changed neither imperial Russia, nor the Soviet Russia, but they never had the defenders neither in the imperial Kremlin, nor in the Soviet Kremlin… Literally one of these days, we witnessed when the secretary general of The Collective Security Treaty (CST) Nikolay Bordyuzha has made a scandalous political and ethical mistake and said in case of the military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan we’ll have to fight on Armenian side. It’s unbearable. If I was the president of Russia then it would be Bordyuzha’s last words on that post… Armenia still has a chance to find a way out with honour and return Nagorno-Karabakh and the occupied lands of Azerbaijan. The inevitability of such act will only accrue every year. It’ll be better for Armenia if it understands sooner. But if the situation develops up to a confrontation then I’d be on the side of Azerbaijan if I was at the power in Russia”.
From the interview to IA APA in Baku, February 6, 2010
Seyid Kazim MUSAVI, Member of the Iranian parliament:
“We condemned Armenia for Khojaly massacre and called it an aggressor. No religious let those, who killed children, old people. This is considered enemy and murderer of the humanity.
The people faced with massacre in Khojaly were our Muslim brothers and sisters. Iran always supported peace, stability and was continuing its policy in this direction. Karabakh belongs to Azerbaijan, I have always said this. Iran borders on the whole Azerbaijan, not Karabakh. We are ready to help Azerbaijan in the solution to Karabakh conflict. This is the official position of our parliamentarians and the state. We support justice. It is clear that Azerbaijan is right in this issue. Any country attacking and declaring war to Azerbaijan, is considered to declare war to Iran. There are relevant security contracts between the two countries”.
From the exclusive interview to IA APA in Baku, February 24, 2010
Sheikh Mubarak bin FAHD AL-THANI, Qatar ambassador to Azerbaijan:
“Qatar supports Azerbaijan Republic position in both regional and international arenas. Qatar supports Azerbaijan particularly during the discussions over Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at the international organizations, including OIC conferences”.
From the interview to IA APA in Baku, February 27, 2010
“Armenia: secrets of terrorist “Christian” state” /Samuel A.Weems/
The great series of Armenian frauds, Vol. I, (beginning in previous flimsies) Charter Five
ARMENIA LOSES UNPROVOKED WAR ON GEORGIYA
Armenians Seek Free Handouts from the Christian World
The Georgians discovered important Armenian government documents and they were published. The proof, from the Armenians themselves, revealed they “had made detailed plans for seizure of the land up to the Khram River, and Armenian military activity would seem to verify the authenticity of those documents”(P 111 from the book of Hovannissian)
The war actually lasted only two weeks because the British intervened and the two countries returned to where they were before the Armenian surprise attack. The British occupied a “neutral zone” between the two countries.
Hovannissian expresses surprise that the Georgian government, in response to the sneak military attack was so harsh on Armenians living in Georgia. He writes:
“The brunt of the war fell not upon the combatants or even the villages of Lori but upon the Armenians of Tiflis and the surrounding communities. Although Zhordonia’s government repeatedly underscored the distinction between the Armenian people and what it described as a clique of Armenian militarists, it nonetheless took stringent measures against the entire population. On December 24, 1918, the parliament passed legislation making treason punishable by death and confiscating of properties, and two days later the governor of the Tiflis gubernia declared all Armenians technically prisoners of war. Those Armenians in Tiflis who were natives of the districts under enemy occupation, that is the southern half of the Borchuvezd, were required to register within twenty-four hours or face prosecution under the law of treason. This announcement was followed by numerous arrests…” (P 122).
Hovannissian continues: “The Armenian and Russian organizations in Tiflis protested in vain. The doors of the National Council of Armenians in Georgia were sealed and members of the council were placed under house arrest. The Armenian newspapers in Georgia also were shut down. In the weeks after the fighting ended, Georgia arrested hundreds of people and they were sent into exile. When the Armenian Council of Georgia was subsequently permitted to resume its activities, it denounced with acerbic indignation the unjust, cruel treatment inflicted by the Georgian government. Its protest read in pan: “The explanation of the Minister of Interior that this national persecution must be ascribed to the unauthorized acts of individual officials can only leave the most onerous impression upon the Armenian public, especially since the explanation follows that which has become a most common work of late – a word about the supposed respect for the Armenian people, a word that can now only wound the sensitivity of a people living under the most debasing and oppressive of conditions”” (P 123).
Reaction throughout Georgia was quick and certain. Hovannissian writes: “In the country side, meanwhile, lawless bands and organized units of the People’s (Red) Guard plundered Armenian villages and spread terror to gain retribution and to punish the disloyal and treacherous` inhabitants” (P 124)
Once again, ordinary Armenians suffered from their leaders` attempt involving armed conquest of someone else’s land. The Georgians had every reason not to trust Armenians. Many innocent Armenians were hurt when they were fired from their city of Tiflis jobs. The government called for new elections (at this time Armenia had not even held one).
“The Armenians in Georgia expressed outrage that this government would require every voter to be `registered` as Georgian citizens. The Armenian plurality of Tiflis, from anger, fear, and humiliation, stayed away from the polls, as did thousands of Russians, who would not condescend to accept the status of Georgian subjects. Tiflis thus finally became a Georgian city ruled by Georgians. Armenians who previously could not have imagined residing anywhere but in the magnificent capital of the Caucasus now began to look toward Erevan” (P 124).
(to be continued)
The Armenians about the Armenians /Robert ARKELOV/
Writing – book of Karabakh (beginning in the previous issues)
DELAYED GAME
But Varos didn’t give her a chance to speak and slapped her in the face with all his strength. His wife was in shock for a moment from the suddenness, then put her hand on her cheek and was ruined into tears. The guest, seeing how the situation changed, strained two glasses of vodka calmly and drank it with cheese, and then, murmuring about satisfaction, threw the bulletin to the host disrespectfully:
– Listen, I haven’t any time or any interest to look at your scandals. So, rub out one of the surnames and give the bulletin back. Hurry up!
And at this moment the most stormed hostess caviled at the housing and utilities committee staff:
– Shut up, beardless goat! You are guilty for everything. Why did you meddle in, who called you? You organized such elections that a hen would smile at it. Here are your elections, – she snatched the bulletin of her husband from his hand. Tearing into pieces, she hit it to her husband’s face.
– Ok, – Varos boiled up and, taking the pile of the bulletins that was in front of the office worker, started to rub out all “Sarkisyan” surnames wildly:
-Here, here. Now they will exactly choose Petrosyan, the money will run to his wife.
Varos’s wife was crying bitterly and bitterly. And he, ending the bulletins (there were thirty of them) and smiling happily, asked the guest:
– Have you more? I can do so with them too.
– No, no, – replied the worker and, taking the pile, ran to the door.
But he couldn’t run as the wife caught him at the next moment trying to snatch all bulletins from his hand.
– Give me, miserable goat, – she shouted, – give, or I will pull your eyes out.
But the guest was stronger and faster than the woman and, pushing her away, jumped to the door at a gallop. But till he couldn’t run away, the hostess took a plate full of cheese and threw it to the housing and utilities committee staff, and at random she could beat him back of the head. The housing and utilities committee staff was moaning from the pain, but he didn’t stop and, tightening his head to his shoulder and pressing the back of his head with his hand, jumped out the room. It was heard how he was jumping from the steps in threes and how he was screaming. And when this wasn’t heard, the hostess sat on the sofa and continued hiccupping. The host was sitting calmly, putting his hands to his head. And so, I had to go, not playing the next game, in accordance with the position. I left like the English-I didn’t say goodbye to the host and hostess. Dusk was falling. I was walking along the city and was thinking that some cruel people, exactly like the housing and utilities committee staff, once came here, to the blissful lands of Karabakh to disturb the peace both in the people’s mood and the homes. And they can’t calm in any way, playing the fool. Let’s take these elections: who need it? They can appoint everybody they want to the parliament, not confusing the whole people who live there to their fraud, you know. No, they want to stain everybody and make them participants of the criminal activity. Even Munhausen couldn’t dream better than this. And at last this evening also was unhappy like the all previous I had here.
Costume made from English cloth
Old master, being alone at the atelier, was sewing the trousers which he had promised to prepare for the next morning. His work was ending when a couple-husband and wife, who weren’t young, came in. The master couldn’t refuse receiving them as he was an acquaintance of the woman-she was a neighbor of the master until she married. The couple entered a commissioner shop an hour ago and approved man costume there. As the woman explained to the master, it was sewed from the good and rare cloth, but it was light and wasn’t expensive according to the present prices. It looked perfect on the man; it was absolutely his size on the shoulders and waist. Unfortunately, it was a bit long on the height. That’s why they came to the master; to shorten it as much as it was needed. This work wasn’t to the master’s heart’s content, but there was no any other option. So, he suggested the man to wear the costume. So the man did, and then the master carefully looked at the costume. The costume looked very well on the man, it was perfect for him, but it covered his hands a bit more than it was necessary. Besides, it was needed to shorten the trousers a centimeter or two. It seemed, the back lap was also a bit long, but he wasn’t going to marry, there was just an old man in front of him.
(to be continued)
RUINS /Yuriy Pompeev, academic RAEN, professor of Sankt-Petersburg state university of culture and art (beginning in the previous issues)
But the poetess Silva Kaputikyan was able to travel not only the previous Azerbaijani city Lachin at last years: “There is another city that looks emptier-Aghdam, a city that was flourishing whenever more than the center of the country. But now there are destroyed buildings, half-destroyed walls and corrupted iron roofs around. There are splendid-green gardens with rosy-cheek grenades in front of the houses. But there is no one to collect them… I keep silence with hard thoughts. Is it real that all these were committed by Armenians, by my compatriots?” And she answers at the next indention proudly and with exaggeration: “Yes, these were committed by them-by the Karabakh Armenians”. Then she continues with unexpected frankly recognitions: “And now, standing at the destroyed Aghdam, on the walls of a wracked house, I’m not thinking only about the previous citizens of this city who are now walking idly, God knows where, without home and hate everything and everybody on the Earth. I’m also thinking about who had done all these, who exterminated, stole everything furiously, severely… So, is it real that our saint, life-giving ideas were replaced with killing ideas?” Mrs. Kaputikyan, ideological nationalism, the propaganda that you were made obey so long with power and scare, changes ordinary people exactly to killers. That’s why I read your last quotations-how to say, heartily recognitions without surprise: “Regretfully, nationalism is strengthened both in Russia and Armenia, and sometimes it causes extremism, chauvinism. National flags cover their eyes and they, the “ultras” don’t know what they want to do and where they try to carry their nation. They are not only the fans of their homeland, but also just sick with the native land. And the sickness takes a man out of the normal way, makes him uncompromising to the people who speak other language, who think differently, especially to the “members of other nationalism“… But I still continue believing in advantageous power of the highest nationalist ideas, I believe in its creative start. Both snake gains poison and honey-bee collects honey from the same color of flower, you know”. But what about bumble-bees?
What do you collect, Mrs. Kaputikyan, from the occupied, fruitful lands of Azerbaijan? Ten thousands tons of prime sort maize, in any case. R. Kocharyan, president of self-willed NKR (so called “Nagorno Karabakh Republic” – edi.) was appointed the premier minister of Armenia as the result of elections and under your protection: he knows the economy of the occupied lands very well. And after the compulsory retirement of Ter-Petrosyan, Kocharyan-the famous hawk of the Karabakh War, leaded Armenia… How much frank is your recognition? Be healthy to recognize, to show repentance. We can speak about justice later.
More and more people are enlightened by all these day by day. Listen, Mrs. Kaputikyan, how N. Fomin-the Russian colonel condemns you: “Destroying wave of nationalism, which was ended by Belovejsk contracts, started exactly from Karabakh. Nobody remembered “strategic alliance” when the 7th army was hijacked and burned in Erevan and Russian boys had to attack the airport “Zvartnoc”. All Russian-speakers had to go after the deportation of Azerbaijanis from Armenia. All Russian schools and faculties were absolutely closed. Negotiations about “ancient lands” and about its capital Armavir started”.
(to be continued)
Bloody February of 1992
1992 year has a special role in the history of the war between Armenia-Azerbaijan. At that time Armenia, drawing a mythic plan about the creation of so-called “Great Armenia” with the way of occupation and appropriation of other lands for ten years, started to wage the war against the neighbor Azerbaijan quite openly and by trick. February month of the underlined year was entire bloody.
Here we show the short chronology of the incidents done by armed Armenian bandit groups at the territory of Azerbaijan and at the territory of Armenia where Azerbaijanis lived since old times:
10 February, 1992. Shusha. Azerbaijan. Armenian bands, leaded by the terrorist organization “Karabakh”, occupied Azeri villages Malibeyli and Gushchular nearby Shusha. There was serious lose of the peaceful inhabitants. Long-bearded men killed the wounded just on the spot after torture.
13 February, 1992. Aghdam. Azerbaijan. Great Armenian bands, armed with modern weapons, invaded Azeri village Karadaghli at 6 o’clock in the morning and organized the mass carnage of the civil people. More than 90 Azerbaijanis were captivated as the result of the bloody carnage. 41 women were among them. 200 Christians were executed. The bandits returned back to their position after all these.
16 February, 1992. Erevan. Armenia. The document named “Ecological program of Armenian nation against Azerbaijani nation” was on the agenda at the meeting of Council of Safety of Republics initiated by O.Shakhnazaryan and G.Markarov, leaders of “National-independent movement”. According to the existing principles, the document contained concrete recommendations for the organization and activity of ecological terror against Azerbaijani nation, intending the existing practice of Armenian terrorists at this province, working in the mountainous part of Karabakh, the Republic of Azerbaijan. The document was published as a book under the name of “Ecology” in 1500 editions later.
17 February, 1992. Azerbaijan. Armenian bands occupied several Azerbaijani villages of Khojali country. According to foreign mass information, hired Arabians, who were executed in their own lands and had to escape because of this, took part at the carnage of the peaceful people committed by Armenian gangster and terrorist groups. It should be noted that the Karadaghli village, a big obstacle on the way to Stepanakert, was among the occupied villages and it was necessary for Armenians to evacuate local Azerbaijanis from the village in any way. Life of the village population from 1988 till the occupation was unbearable as the result of the continuous shoots and attacks of the Armenians. The village was exposed to the attacks of the bearded Armenians for 305 times at the last 4 years and nearly 80 persons were dead as the result. But the last attack of the Armenians overturned to the real massacre of the Karadaghlians.
The village was blockaded by the soldiers of the 366th motto-rifle regiment and the Armenians, who were armed till their teeth, beginning from the morning of February 14. Brave citizens could stand only three days against this strong power. 91 inhabitants were killed on February 14-16. The circle of the blockade around the village started to narrow on February 17, and the enemy power attacked strongly early morning. The armed groups committed real massacre here, 77 persons were killed as the result, 10 women and 8 children were also included in this list, besides 54 persons were killed with special brutality. 104 persons were taken as hostages. 54 of them were killed during the captivity. Armenian and non-Armenian powers used the hardest forms of fire and violence during the realization of the attack. Because of all these, the massacre of the population of Karadaghli is considered as the second Khojali.
18 February, 1992. Aghdam. Azerbaijan. Bearded Armenians from the terrorist “Karabakh” organization took two pupils as hostages from the Azerbaijani village Shelli: Natig and Niyamaddin Ibadovs. The Armenians delivered an ultimatum: the inhabitants of the village Shelli had to leave their native lands in the shortest time, or they would punish the children sternly.
19 February, 1992. Gubadli. Azerbaijan. Armenian bands fired at a village of Gubadli from the territory of Armenia. There were victims of the peaceful residents.
25-26 February, 1992. Khojali. Azerbaijan. Armenian armed groups together with the soldiers of the 366th motto-rifle regiment SNG stroke the underlined city off the Earth. There was committed unexampled genocide against the Muslim population of the city (read about the Khojali events at the special point of this edition of the newspaper).
February, 1992. Azerbaijan. Armenian bands, controlled by the terrorist organization “Karabakh”, invaded Azerbaijani quarters of the Khankendi city, also the line of villages along the Shusha-Khojali way and around Shusha.
28 February, 1992. Aghdam. Azerbaijan. Armenian bands fired at the city with rackets. There were victims.
End of February, 1992. Khankendi. Azerbaijan. There was started the evacuation of composition of the 366th motto-rifle regiment SNG from the city and illegal transportation of 25 tanks, 87 BMP, 28 BTR and BRDM, 45 artillery-mortar systems and other weapons was realized.
“I don’t live any more after that…”
There are a lot of witnesses about the Khojali genocide, it is impossible to read till the end calmly, in the long-ton criminal case number 64524 about the crime committed by the Armenian armed groups and the soldiers of the 366th motto-rifle regiment in Khojali. Here we shortly give one of these documents, expression of Aliyeva Malahat Ahmad’s daughter, the inhabitant of Khojali who was born in 1957.
“We lived in two-floor house consisting of 6 rooms in Khankendi till 1988. We had all condition we needed, also 6 sots of land.
The situation around us became complicated at last years, we were afraid of going to other places, we were outraged, men were often kept and beaten, usually a big group of the Armenians attacked one Azerbaijani, and they had started to burn houses of the Azerbaijanis lately. We understood that we had to go when we heard that the family of one of our friend died on the fire entirely- their house was burnt and the door and windows were closed outside especially. And one night we started to entrain our things to the lorry when Maharram Aliyev, my brother who was born in 1962 and lived in Khojali, came to us. But the neighbor Armenians appeared and required us to give all our things, or they would kill us. Then my brother quickly put us with the children to the car and we left for Khojali.
We legitimized land area during the influx of months and started to build a new house. Our house was approximately ready on February, 1992, we had to only plaster it. We were living at my brother’s for the present.
My brother and husband were at post of the defection groups in the evening on February 25, 1992 and I was at home with the children. The neighbors came to us and we all hid at cellar when the strong shootings started. At night my husband came with Kamil Huseynov, my cousin who was born in 1955. They said that we all had to leave quickly: “Take the children and go to the school, hurry up!”. We saw that people were going to the forest along the road. Everything was burning, also our new house. I hadn’t seen such horror in my life before. Everything was covered by smoke and fire, children were calling their parents, parents were searching for their children, everybody was shouting and crying. We went to the Gargar river. I started to carry the children on my back one by one. There was heard a fire nearby while I was carrying my daughter, and she winced and fell down. I picked her up and brought to the shore. We all were going along the leg-level snowy road. The people’s feet slipped, they got up and continued their way. Nobody knew what would happen with us. Arif Hadjiyev was going ahead. The people ran to different ways when they heard fire, majority of them died as the result of the bullets and freezing. People who were going ahead saw an asphalt road, but it leaded to Nakhchivanik, an Armenian village. There was a tank on this way. It turned back and went to the way of Askeran. We thought that the tank left and we all went out the forest and started to walk along the road. Suddenly there were started terrible fires from the different sides, the people were without anything, without defection. It was just a terrible horror! The tank also returned back and started to shoot at us from its barrel. The people lost their senses, and suddenly I saw my husband, and they killed him in front of my eyes at that moment. I fell down his dead body and didn’t believe that he was dead. The other persons made me go to save the children.
My sons were going themselves, but I was carrying the daughter. She had fur on her and it became wet when she fell down the river, then it froze and it was impossible to put it off. One of the men cut it with knife. Then my daughter stayed with just a blouse. I put my coat off and covered her with this. And I lied down the ground and covered her with my body when we were fired near the road. But it was late, she had a bullet in her body and it killed her. I refused going more and wanted to die here, with my daughter. Then somebody carried me somewhere, and I don’t remember where I went after these and what happened. I just remember that I crawled somewhere and suddenly saw Teymur, my son. He was wounded and was entirely in blood. I put him on my back and crawled with him somewhere. I remember that everywhere was full of dead bodies and we were crawling through blood of the dead persons.
Then some men ran to us, took us and brought to Agdam. My sister carried on her hands her baby from Khojali, but the baby was killed, and then the men brought my sister’s baby to me. My sons were at relatives. I couldn’t speak after the shock I lived for a long time. I attempted to kill myself for several times, but my relatives brought a mullah from the mosque. He talked to me for several days and I promised her to stop these attempts of killing myself. But I don’t live any more…”
“Khojaly genocide: crime against the humanism can’t stay without punishment!”
This topic was dedicated to the Round Table held by the “Association for Civil Society Development in Azerbaijan” (ASCSDA) and by Public Association for “Protection of Rights of Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons in Azerbaijan” PA (PRMIDPA) on the eve of bloody events in Khojaly on 25-26 February, 1992.
Professor Nadir Abdullayev, chairman of the PA (PRMIDPA) representative of Public Association for “Protection of Rights of Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons”, opened the meeting with the preamble. Abdullayev, noticing the historical events happened around Karabakh, native land of Azerbaijan, stopped at Khojaly genocide. He directed the participants’ attention to the “black statistic” of the Armenian-Russian operation: 613 persons were killed, 487 persons became invalid, 1275 peaceful inhabitants-the olds, children and women were taken as hostages and were exposed to inhuman torture, insult and humiliation. There isn’t any information about the fortune of 150 persons till today. There are 106 women, 63 children, 70 old persons among the killed. 8 families were entirely killed, 24 children lost both of their parents and 130 children lost one of their parents as the result of the tragedy. 56 persons were killed with special brutality. They were burnt, their heads were cut, skin of their faces was stripped off, eyes of the babies were pulled out, stomachs of the pregnant women were drilled with bayonets. The Armenians insulted even the dead people.
Gadir Nasirov, editor of the newspaper “Voice of Karabakh”, made a speech reporting the discussed item. The reporter directed the participants’ attention to two basic problems about the Khojaly tragedy: committers of the tragedy and political estimate to the happened. He noted that Armenia, purposing to add Karabakh, historical Azerbaijani land to its territory, is the main creator of the terrible tragedy of XX century. Content of the committed crime, many other documents, materials of the criminal case number 64524 about the Khojaly events prove this. Even the recognitions of the Armenians show that the main author of Khojaly genocide was Armenia. The reporter showed a part of the book “With the name of cross” of the Armenian Davud Kheyriyan, where the picture of burning of the dead Khojaly people, killed by Armenian-Russian armed groups, is described. The episode of burning of the 10 years old Azerbaijani girl, who was burning, shouting and asking for help, with the dead bodies touched the author himself. There are some episodes which hide the criminal and wild character of the Armenians in the book “Resurrection of our spirit”, the book of one of the Armenian authors Zori Balayan, one of the “mixers of the Karabakh porridge”. The expression of proud for participation in the Karabakh war and killing peaceful people of the former president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan is remembered even from the European tribunes. Serj Sarkisyan, the present president of the country boasted of breaking the views of Azerbaijanis about the Armenians that they can’t raise their hands against the civil people.
The next killer of the non-armed Khojaly people was the personal structure of the 366th motto-rifle regiment SNG, located in Khankendi at that times. According to the underlined criminal case, many documents, witnesses, the officers and soldiers of this regiment took the most active role in the genocide of the peaceful inhabitants of Khojaly using its military technique and military supplies.
The reporter noted that the character of Khojaly genocide nearly is the same with the requests of the Convention “About warning of the genocide and punishment for it” received by UN on December 9, 1948 and the tragedy committed by the Russian-Armenian armed groups must be received as genocide by the international community.
Yavar Azimov, representative of the officials of Khojaly city, Akif Naghi, chairman of the Karabakh Liberation Organization, Shamil Sabiroglu, representative of the organization “Recognition of the Khojaly genocide”, Aygun Ibrahimova, chairman of the “Call of Krabakh” organization, Rauf Sultanov, president of the Fund of Monitoring of Ecological Standards of Azerbaijan”, Mugalib Mahmudov, representative of the office of ombudsman of Azerbaijan, Firudin Mammadov, deputy chief of “Karabakh gazies” Teymur Alban, representative of the intelligence and others curtly condemned the fact of commitment of genocide by Armenian-Russian armed groups against the peaceful inhabitants of Khojaly, made suggestions according to the mass carnage of the Azerbaijani people in Khojaly, Malibayli, Agdaban, Karkijahan e.t.c.
There was showed a video including photos connected to the Khojaly tragedy.
The participants addressed the international organizations to give objective political estimate to the Khojaly events, to recognize the crime committed by Armenian-Russian armed groups as the genocide and to show possible activity in putting in order the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict justly.
Presentation of 3 books about Khojaly tragedy
Association for Civil Society Development in Azerbaijan (ASCSDA) held the presentation of 3 books about Khojaly tragedy.
According to APA, Vice President of ASCSDA Vali Alibayov said the organization had begun events with the purpose of bringing the facts about Armenian terror to the notice of the world community in 2006. Tens of books dedicated to the tragedy have been published within the framework of these events.
Alibayov noted that these 3 books had been published by using the more modern methods. That is CDs were added to “Historica facts vs. The Armenian myths” and “Two photo-talks on a tragedy” books. The books were presented to Azerbaijani delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and those, who were presented at that organization. The opinions of worldwide famous persons- writer Ayzik Azimov, Russian diplomat and writer A.Griboyedov and even Armenian scientists – were reflected in the book titled “Forgotten or Falsified Truths”. The fact about the later moving of Armenians to Azerbaijan finds its affirmation in these opinions.
All 3 books were published in English. Photos proving the massacres and savageries committed by Armenians in Azerbaijan were also reflected in these books – “Forgotten or Falsified Truths”, “Historica facts vs. The Armenian myths”, “Two photo-talks on a tragedy”.
Bloody sunset of MIB No 366
18 years have passed since bloody events in Azerbaijani city Khojali. Mass killing, mayhems, exiling of civilians from their homes over the night form February 25 to 26, 1992 turned into most horrible tragedy of the last century.
It was advancely planed action of destroying and frightening civil Azerbaijani population. Its main organizer and “inspirer” of course was Armenia and its executor was Armenian band formations and personnel of the regiment № 366, dislocated in Khankendi. The participation of soldiers and officers of this regiment in the destruction of Khankendi and mass extermination of civilians, and not only in this city is reliably proved fact. Let’s talk about it a little bit later. For the present, let’s stop on quite mysterious “stucking” of this regiment on the territory of sovereign Azerbaijan.
Till midst 80-ies the regiment 366 of 23 divisions of 4th army of the Post-Soviet was left in Socialist Republics Union (SSRU) Azerbaijan’s Ganja city. In 1985 it was transferred in Khankendi, an administrative center of Nagorno –Karabakh Autonomous Region of Azerbaijan. At that post soviet period no one reacted to such an abnormal step: what was the sense to create new troubles, problems, to spend so much state budget, labour to redeploy the regiment from central part of the country to remoter city with mountainous relief. It turned to have a sense and therewith was important –for Armenians of course.
In other words, this step was made exclusively on the basis of Armenian perspective plan on forthcoming aggression against Azerbaijan. All this notorious Armenian turmoil around NKAR began exactly at the end of 80-ies. And this regiment was “oxygen”, the second breath. So, Armenians strive for transfer the regiment from Ganja to Khankendi with the help of channels in Russian high circles. That is, it was necessary exclusively for taking Nagorno –Karabakh from Azerbaijan. Exactly because of this, the process of withdrawing of soviet troops from the territory of the country at the end of 1991 didn’t touch this regiment. And it is not by accident that its disbandment, figuratively speaking its “sunset” and besides being bloody took place exactly after the Khodjali slaughter happened at the end of February –beginning of March 1992. As the saying goes a moor made his deed, the moor can already leave.
By the way, the farewell procedure of 366 became too generous. Thanks to charity of Russia leadership to Armenians, the big part of military equipment, ammunition and outfit, all possession of the regiment were freely transferred to Armenian military forces: 25 tanks, 288 shells and 13500 large –caliber bullets, 87 IFV and ARPV, 45 artillery –mortar systems, 16 122 mm howitzers D-30 and 1280 shells to them, 6 anti- tank controlling missiles “Faqot”, 4 installations “Arrow-2” for BRDM and 32 shells to them, 3 renith installations “Arrow-2”, 24 120 mm mortar and 72 thousand shells to them, 42 artillery tractors and many others. Till this time there were events of deserting to Armenians. For instance, while deserting S.Oganyan “took with himself” 14 IFV. But let’s return to bloody marching of the 366 together with Armenians. And running ahead, let’s mark that besides Khojali the regiment took active participation in extermination of residents of such villages like Malibeyli, Qaradagli, Karkidjahan, Aqdabar, Meshal and others, occupation of populated area of NK and 7 regions not included in its administrative structure. But Kodkali… Yes, for a night with Armenian – Russian forces the city with 7 thousand populations turned into real hell.
According to the words of eyewitnesses, testimonies of witnesses and corresponding documents, the operation on seizure of Khojali on February 19-20 in the eve of anniversary of Sumgayit events was prepared by… Yevgeni Nabokikh, the commander of the third battalion of 366 regiment and only this fact is enough for confirmation of the participation of regiment militants, mainly of the first (the commander V.Chitchan), second (the Commander S.Oganyan) and the third (the Commander E. Nabokih) battalions in military operations in NK and beyond its boundaries what at the same time exposes Armenian and Russian arguments about the non-participation of the named regiment in Khojali genocide. By the way, in the days of anniversary tragic event in Khojali, A. Nesterenko, the official representative of Russia’s MIS, being silent during lasted 18 years after these evens, made ridiculous, and at the same time infuriating statement that “18 years ago Azerbaijanis in Khojali were killed by mercenaries”. What insolence! It turned to be that slaughter in Khojali was made not by Armenians and Russians, but by some hired aliens.
In the regiment personnel the Commander of which was lieutenant colonel Yuri Zarvigarov, there were more then 50 (according to servicemen some 80) officers and warrant officers were of Armenian nationality: the commander of the 2nd battalion Major Syran Oganyan (currently the minister of defense of the Armenian Republic), the manager of HR department Major Pogosov, the deputy of the commander on the rear Major Aganesov, the chief of headquarters of the 1st battalion Major Valery Chitchan, the head of reconnaissanceMajor Vachagan Ayriyan, the Comander of the 2nd company of the 1st battalion lieutenant Movses Akopyan, the commander of communication company Qriqoriy Kisebekyan, the commander of 5th battalion Slavik Arutyunyan, the commander of 1st provision platoon Andrey Ishkhanyan, the commander of the 2nd battalion platoon Sergey Berqlyan, the platoon commanders of repair company Kamo Arutyunyan and Armen Daniyelyan, the commander of 11th battalion Pogos Abramyan and many others.
So, over the night from February 25 to 26 militaries of 366th regiment encircled Khojali from three sides on hard equipment just leaving the only one way to Armenian settlements Nakhchivanik and Askeran. At 23 o’clock there was massive firing by tanks, IFV, APC and guns with the missile “Alazan”, fire broke out; the city was burning all the night, many innocent civilians were killed by shells already in these first hours of the attack. The forces of landing division in Ganja were sprung into action for the operation. However, before the arrival of landing division, 103 persons of the crew, mainly of Armenian nationality, obviously accepting their involvement to the done crimes refused to obey. According to the data, nearly 40 units of equipment were used in the Khojali attack, that is, IFV, APC and tanks belonging to the 366th regiment of CIS.
According to the story of the witnesses, as well as officers and soldiers, interrogated on the criminal case № 64524 set regarding Khojali events, all military equipment and partly the contingent of the regiment was in fact at the disposal of Armenians. There was a definite system of counting: for each fire out of gun from Shusha or other populated locality Armenians gave 20 liters of spirits, for the participation of one IFV in the operation against Azerbaijanis a commander was given 5 thousand rubles, for a fire – 1000 ruble and so on. In their evidence troopers marked that some officers of the regiment got hundreds of thousands of dollars, while E. Nabokich got half million for the “heroism” on the destruction of Khojali and its population and after that left for America with his wife. The atmosphere of lack of restraint, bribery, the factor of personal interest created the breeding ground for the increase of people of Armenian nationality in the regiment what in its turn conditioned unimpeded use of the latter of military forces, as well as military equipment, weapons and ammunition against Azerbaijani population. According to the testimonies of the interrogated, namely colonel Stanislav Bojko, captain Sergey Tushov, captain Qriqoriy Markushin, officer Yevgeniy Shumskikh, the ranks Yuriy Yaxkhnovich, Aleksey Bondarev, Paul Antipin, Paul Zuyev, Igor Yurkov, Andrey Kostiryov, the operator- gunlayer Yuriy Alkovich it has become to known that officers of Armenian nationality were holding special “ideological work” among the personnel and suggested Russian officers and soldiers the following propaganda: “We are Christians and must fight against Muslims”. Soldiers and officers of the regiment were forced to fight against Azerbaijan; in the case of refuse they would be killed. For example, according to P.Antipin, one his countryman was killed by Armenians for his refusal to fight against Azerbaijanis. The heads of the depots were deliberately appointed the persons of Armenian nationality what created auspicious conditions for the sell of weaponry and ammunition to Armenian armed band formations. Concerted “attacks” on depots were several times arranged. As a result of this a big number of weaponry and ammunition fell into the hands of Armenian illegal armed troops. Nearly every night officers and soldiers went on their “night duties” and for hours draw fire against Azerbaijani populated localities and returned in the regiment with no ammunition. The participation of the regiment personnel in battles against Azerbaijan was with the knowledge of Y.Zarvigarov himself. For example, S.Tushin said that lieutenant colonel S.Moiseev had regular affairs with regiment commander for Tushin despite of Zarvigarov’s order, forbad the personnel to go on “night duties”. According to testimonies and corresponding documents it has been found that via deputy commander of Trans-Caucasian Military District (TCMD) lieutenant-general Iosif Oganyan created good conditions for 366th regiment to carry out war against Azerbaijan and its population.
For instance, drivers, gunlayer-operators, and other professionals of IFV, APC and were brought to the regiment before Khojaly operation from military units in Nakhchivan and Georgia. The participation of the named regiment in battles on the side of Armenians, as well as the transfer of military equipment and weaponry to them was accepted even by the deputy of head quarters of United Armed Forces of CIS general-lieutenant Boris Gromov, ex deputy commander of UAF of CIS general-lieutenant Boris Pyankov, the deputy of the Commander-in-Chief TCMD of CIS general lieutenant S. Beppayev and other high ranking military figures. Moreover, if the regiment took no participation, what Russian side insists on, how then it happened that more then 100 of its personnel could ever die. The fact was marked in the interview of S.Bogdanov with the Commander –in –Chief of TCMD general- lieutenant V. Petrikeev in the 13th edition of the newspaper “Arguments and facts” of the 1992?
Yes, the “sunset” of the motorized infantry battalion turned to be too bloody. During 1991-1992 this regiment together with Armenian band formations destroyed Khojaly and tens of other cities and villages of Azerbaijan, killed several thousands of innocent civilians of the country, caused moral and material damage. The participation of the personnel of MIB № 366 in battles against Azerbaijani population there is components of genocide specified by the article 103 of CC of the Republic of Azerbaijan and convention of UN General Assembly “About the prevention of a genocide and punishment for it” dated December 9, 1948. Moreover, regiment staff together with Armenian band formations committed a gross violation of the demands of Geneva Convention and a number of other international legal norms.
The investigation on the set criminal case in regards to Khojaly events is being continued by the public prosecutor’s office of the Azerbaijani Republic. The fault of 38 military officers is fully proved. The measure of suppression as an arrest is chosen against them by courts and corresponding documents are directed to Central National Bureau of Azerbaijan’s Interpol for putting on the international wanted list.
None of the Khojaly butchers will beat the rap!
Georgians about Armenians /Felix Cercvadze/
Armenia and The Mountainous Karabakh
Growth of myths (beginning in the previous issues) The third source
“Great illustrative encyclopedic dictionary FILLIPS” (Moscow, 2003)
Here is given information about Erevan city.
1. Capital of Soviet Union Armenia in Razdan country. Is known as an Urartian fortress Erebuni by 782 BC. Adminstrative center of the Eastern Armenia from 1440. Is under depending of Russia from 1828. Official name was Erivan till 1936. Agvan assembly (591-602), Katochik church (XIII century), Zoravar church (XVII-XVIII centuries).
2. Erivan city till 1936. Capital of Armenia in Razdan country. Is known as an Urartian fortress Erebuni by 782.
3. Capital of Armenia in Razdan country in the Caucasus. One of the oldest cities in the world. Is known as an Urartian fortress Erebuni by 782. Was the capital of Armenia from the beginning of VII century AD when it was under the control of Persia. There is a Turkish fortress of XVI century.
Pay attention to the changing of the descriptions about Erevan. If it was insisted earlier that Erevan was the administrative center of the Eastern Armenia from 1440, decorators refused this at the last editions. It seems they understood at last that the false descriptions of mythic and never-existed “Eastern Armenia” make suspicions about the whole construction of belonging Erevan to Armenia. Besides, the decorators deleted the date “from 1440”, but it is clear to not only professional historians, but also the people informed of this encyclopedia that Armenia stopped existing as a government in 387 AD, and as a territory in 1375 AD and was restored at the Azerbaijani lands in 1918. And so, Erevan couldn’t be the administrative center of Armenia in 1440 as Armenia didn’t exist itself, ethnic Armenians were the citizens of Turkey at that time and lived there, and Iravan was the administrative center of Iravan khanate and Azerbaijanis lived there.
Although, the decorators put in motion a new version about the capital of Armenia that was under control of Persia from the beginning of VII century AD. That’s why here will be placed proofs about when and whom belonged Armenia, periods of its existing and fall in 2005 years, in the period that we call AD.
Years Whom Armenia belonged
0-100 Parfia and Rome
100-200 Rome
200-300 Rome
300-400 Rome(Byzantine)-Persia
Note: Byzantine was the heir-at-law of Rome in the East after when Rome Empery was divided into The Eastern and Western parts and Constantinople was the capital (“the second Rome” according to Orthodox tradition).
Years Whom Armenia belonged
400-1000 Byzantine-Persia
1000-1100 Seljuk
Note: Armenians leaved their ancient lands in Armenia (Eastern part of The Little Asia, or Anatoly), moved to the lands of Byzantine in The Little Asia to escape from the entire fall of Seljuk Empire, under defense of Byzantine army and Byzantine imperator who defined Kilikiya province for them to live (as the result the “Armenian Kilikiya” conception appeared).
Years Whom Armenia belonged
1100-1375 Byzantine
1375-1918 Armenia stopped its existing
National Heroes of Azerbaijan
Courageous fighter
He was the father of three children. Like every parent who cared for the beloved children, raise them, wanted to make them full, the necessary native citizens. But he has no time, more truly, a insidious enemy did not give him this opportunity…
Ingilab Alakbar oglu Ismailov was born February 24, 1962 in one of the beautiful corners of Karabakh – the small town of Khojaly. In 1981 he was called to active military service, which took place in the ranks of internal troops of the former USSR in the city of Kharkov, and graduated sergeant school in there. Since 1984, on returning to his native Khojaly, Ingilab has started to work as the tractor operator in the collective farm sector.
The so-called notorious “Armenian movement” for tearing away of Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) from Azerbaijan started from late 1987 to early 1988, with each passing day more and more aggravated the situation not only in NK, but also all over Azerbaijan. Armed Armenian militants have often carried out diversions against the people of Azerbaijani nationality, are striving to expel them all from their homes in Armenia and Karabakh. Young inhabitants of Khojaly, as in all other settlements of Karabakh and areas round it organized on round-the-clock protection of the Armenian population from the possible onslaught. Ingilab also was among the patriots- Khojaly people.
In 1990, I.Ismailov, was accepted an employment in Khojali police department. In these times, Armenian insurgents attacked the Azerbaijani towns and villages have adopted continuous character. Every day, they were subjected Khojaly to rocket bombardment, resulting in collapsed houses, tragically killed the family. Gradually create a very difficult situation – the city was completely surrounded. It was necessary to urgently conclude from women, children and the elderly. Ingilab made all efforts in this matter. But it was time when it became impossible to take anything in this matter. All went to that same fatal night of 25 to 26 February 1992…
Armed to the teeth Armenian insurgents, together with 366th Russian motorized infantry regiment, accompanied by numerous military equipments went to the town of Khojaly. It was an infernal night when the sky poured fiery “rain”. This was pre-planned act of genocide against the Muslim population of the city. Together with I.Ismailov’s fellow workers has actively resisted the attackers, hedging the residents of the city, so that they could escape to the forest. Demonstrating courage in this unequal battle, Ingilab saved from imminent death of a dozen residents of the city. Fighting, he secured the more recent Khojaly from the enemy encirclement.
By sending a family in Oguz region, which has been kept away from the places of operations, Ismailov returned to the hot spot and continued his work in the post patrol regiment of the Division of Internal Affairs of Aghdam district. As a cherished of an eye the regiment protected the height of Dashbashy having huge strategic value. In order to take this height, the Armenian armed forces have made several attacks, but each time was forced to retreat with heavy losses. In the battles Ingilab showed exceptional courage and bravery. By concentrating a large force, 12 June 1992 the enemy launched another attack for the capture of the height Dashbashy. The brave sons of Azerbaijan and this time gave vivid repulse to enemy forces. Ingilab own blood signed on to victory in this fierce battle. But his comrades in battle, however much they tried, it was not possible to take out his body from the battlefield…
His three children remained orphans…
On October 8, 1992, Ingilab Alakbar oglu Ismailov was posthumously conferred the honorary title of the National Hero of Azerbaijan by the decree of the President of Azerbaijan.
One of the streets of Baku bears the name of the hero.
Black garden /Thomas de Waal/
Excerpt from the chapter 11. August 991 – May 1992: War breaks out /Khojaly/
Since January 1, 1992, the Armenians began to undertake the armed sorties for limits of Stepanakert. They seized the Azerbaijani villages around the city, displacing hundreds of Azerbaijanis remained there. Their main aim now was Khojaly town, located nine kilometers northeast of Stepanakert, where there was the unique airport in the region. Once in Khojaly masse were placed Azerbaijani displaced persons. In 1991, its population made 6300 persons.
In October 1991, the Armenians cut the road connecting Khojaly with Aghdam, and the city became possible to reach only by the helicopter: a short flight from Aghdam and then a sharp decrease on a spiral. When in January an American reporter Thomas Goltz has made this terrible flight, his look appeared cold and unprotected city. “In Khojaly phones did not work, nothing worked: there was no electricity, no heating, no tap water, – wrote Goltz. – The only means of communication with the outside world were helicopters – and every flight was associated with risk”. By February 13, 1992, when was made the last flight of the helicopter in Khojali there in total were evacuated, probably less than 300 inhabitants, and remained in the city of 3000 people, defense of Khojaly provided by Alif Hajiyev, the OMON commander of airport and about 160 civil militiamen. Inhabitants anxiously awaited the onset of the Armenians.
The assault began on the night of 25 to 26 February. This day was probably chosen in memory of the Armenian pogroms in Sumgait, which had happened four years earlier. Fighting support to the Armenians has 366-th Armour Regiment of the Soviet Army. They surrounded Khojaly on three sides, after which the Armenian soldiers entered the city and crush the resistance of the defenders.
Only one exit from Khojaly remained open. Speak, Hajiyev convinced civilians to run to Aghdam, promising to give them the protection of riot polices, who would accompany them to the city. That night a huge crowd of people ran to his knees in the snow through the forest and began to descend into the valley of the Gargar river. Early in the morning, accompanied by the residents of Khojaly few riot polices came to the plains near the Armenian village Nakhichevanik. Here they met a barrage of Armenian fighters entrenched on the slopes just above the plain. Militiamen have opened reciprocal fire, but the forces were very unequal, and they have shot down. To a place of terrifying slaughterhouse came more and more refugees. Hijran Alekperov, a former inhabitant of Khojaly, told to the representative of the human rights organization “Human Rights Watch”: “We have reached to Nakhichevanik to nine in the morning. There was a field on it were many killed. Perhaps they were a hundred people. I have not tried to count them. I was injured on the field. Alif Hajiyev was shot, and I wanted to help him. The bullet hit me in the stomach. I saw where they were shooting. I saw many dead bodies in this field. They were killed recently – they have not yet changed the color of the skin.”
The eyes of journalists and investigators who arrived here a few days later appeared a terrible picture of the carnage. The torn to pieces bodies lay everywhere on the frozen ground. Anatol Lieven from London “Times” wrote that “some of them, including in one little girl, on a body had terrible wounds. Only the face was remained in her”. The Azerbaijan public prosecutor Yusif Agayev noticed traces of gunpowder near the entrance bullet holes, from which it concluded that many of the victims were shot at point-blank: “They shot at very close distance. We arrived at the place where all it happened. To me, a specialist at once everything became clear”.
In addition to those who received gunshot wounds, dozens of people died from cold and frostbite in the woods. More than a thousand residents of Khojaly were captured, among them dozens of Meskhetian Turks, refugees from Central Asia.
There are various estimates of the number of Azerbaijanis killed in Khojaly or in its vicinity. Perhaps, the most plausible figure – that was obtained during an official investigation undertaken by the Azerbaijani parliament. According to these data, the death toll was 485 people. Even taking into account that it counts not only killed in a shootout, but died from overcooling, this huge figure obscures the casualty figures in the history of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. Reciprocal shooting of Azerbaijanis was insignificant and in no way can justify cold-blooded murder in the open field of hundreds of helpless civilians, including children.
Gradually the news of the massacre in Khojaly became public. Firstly, many simply refused to believe it, because until then the world media covering the conflict mostly portrayed Armenians as the victims of this conflict, but not as aggressors. The justificatory interview given by former Azerbaijani president Ayaz Mutalibov has not helped. In an attempt to downplay his role in the inability to protect the city, Mutalibov has assigned all faults for a slaughter-house in Khojaly on the leadership of the Popular Front. His interview widely quoted in Armenia.
Yet now the Armenians did not deny that during flight from Khojali killed many Azerbaijani civilians. Some accuse the Armenian militias, allegedly operating willfully. A member of the Armenian police, Major Valery Babayan believes that the main motive of those events was personal revenge. He said the American journalist Paul Quinn-Judge that many involved in the attack on Khojaly “were from Sumgait and other such places”.
When the Armenian military leader Serzh Sarkisyan (the present president of Armenia – edi.) asked about the capture of Khojaly, he replied cautiously: “We prefer not to speak aloud about it”. Regarding the number of victims, he said, “much has been exaggerated”, and Azerbaijanis fleeing offered armed resistance. However, over the events Sarkisyan spoke more honest and more rigidly: “But I think the main issue was quite different. Before Khojaly the Azerbaijanis thought that we could joke, they thought that the Armenians could not raise their hand against the civilian population. We were able to break this stereotype. Here’s what happened. And you have to take into account that among those boys was people who had running from Baku and Sumgait”.
Score Sargsyan makes a different angle to look at the most brutal massacre of the Karabakh war. It is possible that these massacres were, they should at least in part, a deliberate act of intimidation.
«Karabakh Diary»
Russia’s “Kanonplyus” publishing house has published a book entitled “Karabakh Diary” by a Russian author.
According to Day.Az, the office of the OIC Youth Forum said the author of the book, consisting of a trilogy of “Bloody pool of Karabakh”, “Vale Days” and “Ruins”, is a famous Russian scholar and writer, Professor Yuri Pompeyev.
Since late 1980s, Y.Pompoyev has tried to raise world awareness of the Karabakh conflict through his publications and presentations. The book “Karabakh Diary”, written in a historical journalistic genre on the basis of unknown historical documents and author’s personal interviews with political and public figures and journalists involved in the Karabakh conflict, reflects the objective analysis of the bloody events since the conflict began. The book analyzes the work of the behind-the-scenes establishment of the Soviet Union, in particular, Armenian lobby’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, who gave rise to conflict that led to the Khojaly massacre of 1992.
The book, written from the standpoint of Russian public figure, who is responsible for his country’s role in post-Soviet area, gives an impartial assessment to Gorbachev’s role in the massacre on 20 January, tells about Heydar Aliyev’s efforts in a period of political disgrace, his return to power and his struggle to maintain independence and restore the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.
The book has been published as part of the “Justice for Khojaly” international civil awareness campaign (www.justiceforkhojaly.org) initiated by the General Coordinator of the OIC Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation, which aims at political and legal recognition of Khojaly massacre by the world community, Leyla Aliyeva.
The book is of particular interest to historians and all those interested in the history of the last years of the Soviet Union and the national liberation struggle of the Azerbaijani people.
Khojaly tragedy – a crime against humanity
51 country parliamentarians recognize Khojaly tragedy as a crime against humanity
Parliamentary Union of Islamic Conference has adopted a special resolution in support of the “Justice for Khojaly” campaign, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.
According to the Islamic Conference Youth Forum, the resolution was adopted at the 6th session of the Union, held in the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
The session, attended by the heads of parliaments from 51 countries, has adopted a resolution on “Cooperation between the OIC Youth Forum and the Parliamentary Union of Islamic Conference”.
The Khojaly tragedy is recognized as a “mass genocide of civilians by Armenian armed forces” and “crime against humanity” in the resolution, submitted within the campaign “Justice for Khojaly”, initiated by the coordinator of the Islamic Conference Youth Forum Leyla Aliyeva.
The resolution, adopted by the Parliamentary Union of Islamic Conference, also 51 countries calls for the recognition of the genocide and for international and national support of the campaign.
According to Elshad Iskenderov, general secretary of the Islamic Conference Youth Forum, the resolution is the first document which recognizes the Khojaly tragedy as “a crime against humanity”.
Considering that OIC brings a quarter of the parliaments of the world together, and is the largest inter-parliamentary structure, the adoption of the resolution on Khojaly is an important step in revealing Armenian nationalists’ genocide policy against the Azerbaijani people and will help hold the perpetrators of this crime criminally responsible, he said.
Armenian troops committed genocide in Khojali of Azerbaijan Republic on Feb. 26, 1992. The tragedy began early morning. Due to the fact that the city for four months was under siege, when Armenian military units entered to the city there were only about three thousand people. During the genocide, over 613 unarmed Azerbaijani citizens were killed and among them were 106 women, 63 children and 70 elderly. About 1,000 people were disabled by shots; eight families were fully destroyed. A total of 25 children lost both of their parents and 130 children lost one of them. About 1,275 people were taken prisoner and around 150 people went missing.
The “Justice for Khojaly” international information and agitation campaign has been announced upon the initiative of ICYF-DC (Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation) for Intercultural Dialogue General Coordinator Leyla Aliyeva and started on May 8 in 2008.
Guilty persons in Khojaly genocide – to responsible
18 years ago, at night from February 25 to 26 the Armenian armed forces conjointly with 366th motor-rifle regiment of CIS committed an act of genocide in the town of Khojaly populated with seven thousand inhabitants.
According to the bloody statistics, during the slaughter in Khojaly 613 innocent people aged form 2 days up to 97 years were killed, 1000 peaceful people became disabled persons. Among them 106 women, 63 children, 70 aged persons were killed, 8 families were totally exterminated. 25 children were totally, and 130 children were partly orphaned. 1275 peaceful people were taken into hostage and the fates of 150 of them are still unknown. As a matter of fact, number of killed and wounded persons several times exceeds the above-mentioned figure.
This massacre was mercilessly committed by armenian-russian joint armed forces with unprecedented brutalities against the civilian population. In the armed attacked with heavy artillery participated officers and soldiers of the