Nation honors massacre victims
The Azerbaijani people on Thursday marked the 17th
anniversary of the Khojaly massacre perpetrated by Armenians in the
occupied district of Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh in 1992.
President Ilham Aliyev paid tribute at the monument to the victims in Baku. Along with the president, government officials, heads of numerous diplomatic missions accredited in Azerbaijan and rank-and-file citizens who joined the commemoration ceremony.
The date is commemorated every year throughout the world. The victims are honored in London, Washington, Houston, Bern, Stockholm, Strasbourg, Moscow, Tbilisi and elsewhere.
Thousands of Azerbaijani civilians were slain by Armenian forces in the Khojaly district with the support of Russian troops on February 25-26, 1992. 613 people were brutally killed, including 106 women, 63 children and 70 elderly residents. 1,275 were taken captive, while 487 were crippled and 150 remain missing. The damage inflicted on the economy by the carnage amounted to over $1 billion.
According to the 1992 data of Russia`s Memorial law-enforcement center, its representatives witnessed the recovery of bodies including 130 men, 51 women and 13 children over four days following the tragic developments. Forensic examinations conducted afterwards determined that 151 victims had been killed by bullet wounds, while 20 by shrapnel wounds, and 10 were slain by dull objects. The center also reported the scalping of living persons.
The Sunday Times reported in its March 1, 1992 issue that Armenian soldiers annihilated thousands of Azerbaijani families in Khojaly.
The Times newspaper said in its issue on March 4, 1992 that maimed corpses and the head of a baby girl had been found in Khojaly.
On the same day, a story carried by the Moscow-based Izvestiya newspaper said the face of a woman was half-severed and the scalps of male victims had been found in the area.
On March 14, 1992, a Le Monde journalist reported that he had seen three persons who were scalped and had their nails removed among the dead women and children. "This is not propaganda of Azerbaijanis, this is reality," the newspaper said.
President Ilham Aliyev paid tribute at the monument to the victims in Baku. Along with the president, government officials, heads of numerous diplomatic missions accredited in Azerbaijan and rank-and-file citizens who joined the commemoration ceremony.
The date is commemorated every year throughout the world. The victims are honored in London, Washington, Houston, Bern, Stockholm, Strasbourg, Moscow, Tbilisi and elsewhere.
Thousands of Azerbaijani civilians were slain by Armenian forces in the Khojaly district with the support of Russian troops on February 25-26, 1992. 613 people were brutally killed, including 106 women, 63 children and 70 elderly residents. 1,275 were taken captive, while 487 were crippled and 150 remain missing. The damage inflicted on the economy by the carnage amounted to over $1 billion.
According to the 1992 data of Russia`s Memorial law-enforcement center, its representatives witnessed the recovery of bodies including 130 men, 51 women and 13 children over four days following the tragic developments. Forensic examinations conducted afterwards determined that 151 victims had been killed by bullet wounds, while 20 by shrapnel wounds, and 10 were slain by dull objects. The center also reported the scalping of living persons.
The Sunday Times reported in its March 1, 1992 issue that Armenian soldiers annihilated thousands of Azerbaijani families in Khojaly.
The Times newspaper said in its issue on March 4, 1992 that maimed corpses and the head of a baby girl had been found in Khojaly.
On the same day, a story carried by the Moscow-based Izvestiya newspaper said the face of a woman was half-severed and the scalps of male victims had been found in the area.
On March 14, 1992, a Le Monde journalist reported that he had seen three persons who were scalped and had their nails removed among the dead women and children. "This is not propaganda of Azerbaijanis, this is reality," the newspaper said.
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