SPORTS
JUSTICE FOR KHOJALY MUSIC MANIFESTO PRESENTED
Baku, February 25 (AZERTAC). The Justice for Khojaly music manifesto was presented here Wednesday as part of the events to mark the 18th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide.
The event was co-organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Youth and Sport Ministry and Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation (ICYFDC).
The song was performed by American rapper Toni Blackman and Azeri Dayirman group.
The event was addressed by deputy youth and sport minister Intigam Babayev, Secretary General of ICYF Elshad Iskandarov, MPs and chairman of the Irali Public Union Jeyhun Osmanli.
They said the Azerbaijani government had used all opportunities to raise the world community`s awareness of the Khojaly tragedy.
“The massacre was given political assessment after national leader Heydar Aliyev came to power in 1993.”
The orators described the Khojaly massacre as the gravest crime against the humanity.
The town of Khojaly was occupied on February 26, 1992 and followed with unprecedented brutalities against the civilian population. In a few hours the aggressors killed 613 innocent and unarmed people. Among them were 106 women, 83 children, 56 people were killed with special brutality, 8 families were totally exterminated, 25 children were totally, and 130 children were partly orphaned, 476 people became disabled persons (of them 76 were minors), 1275 people were taken hostage and even though afterwards most of the hostages were released from captivity, the fate of 150 of them are still unknown.
The town itself was leveled to the ground.