POLITICS
JUSTICE FOR KHOJALY CAMPAIGN HELD IN COLUMBIA
Baku, 9 December (AZERTAC). A support campaign for “Justice for Khojaly” has been held in Cartagena, Columbia.
The event was organized as part of the international youth festival dedicated to World Humanity Heritage.
At the initiative of national coordinator of the international campaign Justice for Khojaly Julian Rigo Mendez, local volunteers stuck campaign posters at the central streets of the city and to distribute informative booklets to the people.
The event brought together more than 2500 youth. They signed a declaration under motto ‘1000 Peoples Against Injustice’.
The participants of the campaign also met students of the Cartagena University to condemn such tragedies.
The support campaigns for Justice for Khojaly will be also held in Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands.
The International Awareness Campaign is initiated on 8 May 2008 by Mrs. Leyla Aliyeva, General Coordinator of Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation.
The Campaign is aimed at raising international civil awareness through demonstration of creative photos and images of suffered people in the Karabakh conflict and Khojaly Massacre in particular and reaching out globally via Media, Internet and Live events. Photos demonstrating human opposition to massacres and cleansing based on all forms of racial, ethnic or religious discrimination, solidarity with the innocent victims and suffering children of the Khojaly massacre; global call on removing the root cause of the conflict - ending the aggression by the Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.