POLITICS
KHOJALY GENOCIDE TO COME UNDER SPOTLIGHT BY EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCES
Baku, 10 December (AZERTAC). International conferences on mass violation of human rights in armed conflicts will take place on December 10 in Berlin and Geneva, according to the media department of the Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation. The conferences supported by Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation, are timed to the Human Rights Day as part of the international awareness campaign Justice for Khojaly, initiated by General Coordinator of Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation under the motto of “Justice for Khojaly, Freedom for Karabakh” on May 8, 2008.
The Campaign is aimed at raising international awareness on an outrage on humanity committed in Khojaly town and getting a legal and political assessment of the massacre.
Conference under the motto “Armed conflicts and human rights” will take place in Geneva as part of the Geneva UN Headquarters events for the Human Rights Day. The conference participants will discuss Khojaly genocide along with Nazi outrages upon humanity, and also genocides committed in Srebrenica and Ruanda. Also the conference will feature presentation of DVD with a documentary about Khojaly massacre. Elshad Iskenderov, Secretary General of the Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation, will make a report on political recognition of Khojaly genocide reflected in OIC documents.
On December 10, Berlin will host three-day international conference initiated by Eduard Lintner, ex-member of Bundestag. The conference will see discussions of the genocide committed by Armenian dashnaks in 1918 over the Azeri and Jewish population of the Azerbaijan town Guba. The conference will take place at the German-Azerbaijani Center and attended by 100 delegates. German politician Heiko Langner will deliver a lecture on theme “Khojaly - lost misery”.