Leyla Aliyeva watches charitable boxing match in London
By Nigar Orujova
The European Azerbaijan Society and the Mo Farah Foundation co-organized a night of charity boxing between the legendary Repton Boxing Club and the Azerbaijan's club Gabala at the York Hall Leisure Centre in London on June 28.
Vice President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Leyla Aliyeva attended the event, called Gala Charity Boxing Night: Repton vs. Gabala, which commemorated the World Refugee Day.
The night was organized in partnership with adviser to the President of Gabala Sport Club, Tony Adams and famous boxer, Darren Barker.
The funds raised at the event will be spent to cover needs of refugees and IDPs.
The visitors were presented with brochures about the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The organizers encouraged the visitors to join Many Happy Returns campaign aimed at supporting the Azerbaijani refugees and IDPs.
The bloody war, which flared up in the late 1980s due to Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor, displaced 700,000 civilians of Nagorno-Karabakh and the regions adjoining it, as well as the regions bordering with Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Moreover, 250,000 Azerbaijanis were expelled from Armenia and became refugees due to Armenia's ethnic cleansing policy after the emergence of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The Azerbaijanis who had displaced as result of the brutal war were forced to live in refugee camps, under tents and in wagons in very difficult conditions.
As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed, almost 100,000 were injured, 50,000 were disabled and 4,866 are reported missing.