POLITICS
PACE adopts written statement on 20th anniversary of Khojaly Genocide
Baku, January 27 (AZERTAC). The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a written statement on the 20th anniversary of Khojaly Genocide. The deputies from different countries put their signature to the statement prepared by Azeri MP Ganira Pashayeva.
The statement calls on the Council of Europe and other international organizations to give the legal and political assessment to this Genocide. The document says: “We the undersigned urge the international community and the PACE to condemn this brutal and savage crime, to give the legal and political assessment to this bloody action committed by Armenian armed forces against the humanity.
At night from February 25 to 26 the Armenian armed forces occupied the town of Khojaly. The occupation was carried out with active support of several units of the Russian Army`s 366th regiment. Occupation of Khojaly was 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 into hostage and even though afterwards most of the hostages were released from captivity, the fates of 150 of them are still unknown.
