Exhibition on Karabakh opens in Netherlands
By Amina Nazarli
The exhibition called “Genocide of three generations” has been launched in Lahey, the Netherlands.
The exhibition displays photos reflecting the look of Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent territories before and after the invasion of the Armenian armed forces.
Personal belongings, clothes of Azerbaijani civilians who died as a result of tortures by the Armenian military are also on display.
The exhibition brought together Turkish state and government
officials, diplomats, representatives of Azerbaijani and Turkish
diaspora and organizations in the Netherlands as well as Dutch
public figures.
Visitors were informed about the consequences of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and Armenia’s acts
of genocide carried out in the occupied territories.
Speakers at the event said there were documents, photos, video
material and witnesses of the Khojaly Genocide committed by
Armenians.
They said that unfortunately some states and international
organizations turn a blind eye to the Armenian crimes and instead
use Armenians` so-called genocide claims against Turkey and
Azerbaijan.
Books and magazines on Azerbaijani realities were distributed among
visitors.
For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in
conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against
its South Caucasus neighbor.
Since a war in the early 1990s, that displaced over one million Azerbaijanis, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. Over A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by U.S., Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.
Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. through the OSCE Minsk Group, are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles. The negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.