POLITICS
KHOJALY IDPS CALL UPON UN, COE AND OSCE TO GIVE LEGAL AND POLITICAL ASSESSMENT TO KHOJALY GENOCIDE
Baku, 24 February (AZERTAC). Khojaly IDPs have issued a statement calling on the “United Nations, Council of Europe, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe as well as the whole progressive and civilized mankind to give a legal and political assessment to the Khojaly genocide”.
The statement says “over the past two centuries, in order to realize their mythical idea of “Great Armenia” at the expense of historical Azerbaijani lands, Armenian nationalist and extremist circles have consecutively pursued an aggressive policy against Azerbaijan through committing numerous crimes against humanity, including terrorist acts, massacres, mass deportations and genocide.”
The sattement puts the Khojaly genocide amongst “such horrible and monstrous human tragedies of the 20th century as Khatyn, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Son My.”
“On the night of February 26 of 1992 the Armenian armed groups supported by the former Soviet army’s motorized rifle regiment No366 attacked Khojaly from five directions to erase the city from the face of the earth…” the statement says.
“In the Khojaly genocide, 613 innocent people - 106 women, 63 children and 70 the old - were killed; 1275 taken hostage, with 155 of them still missing; while 487, of them 76 underage people, were left disabled. Fifty six of those killed were murdered with extreme brutality as some of them were burnt alive, others had their eyes put out and were scalped and beheaded; pregnant women were bayoneted in the stomach” the statement says.
“The fact Armenia continues to reject four UN Security Council resolutions demanding withdrawal of its armed forces from occupied territories of Azerbaijan is, first and foremost, a serious blow to the organization`s prestige”
“We express confidence that the world community will condemn Armenia`s military aggression against Azerbaijan, and show just and unbiased position to ensure Azerbaijan`s territorial integrity, return of over one million of refugees and IDPs to their homes, and a peaceful, negotiated resolution of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh” the document concludes.