Congress of European Azerbaijanis issues statement on March 31 - Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis

The Congress of European Azerbaijanis has issued a statement on March 31 - Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis.

The document is addressed to Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament Barbara Lochbihler, President of the German Bundestag, Professor Norbert Lammert and the socio-political circles of Germany and Europe.

The statement narrates that 95 years has passed since the genocide committed by Armenian nationalists against Azerbaijanis on March 31, 1918. “The massacre of about 20,000 innocent people - elderly, women and children started on March 30, 1918. The genocide policy against Azerbaijanis was not limited to only Baku. Armenian dashnaks killed 8,027 Azerbaijanis, including 2,560 women and 1,277 in 53 villages of Shamakhy on March 31. 16,000 Azerbaijanis were murdered in 162 villages of Guba. Armenian dashnaks burnt thousands of villages in Lankeran, Mughan and Nagorno-Karabakh and killed thousands of people,” the statement says.
The statement also stresses that on February 25-26, 1992, an unprecedented massacre was committed against the Azerbaijani population in the town of Khojaly. “This bloody tragedy, which be came known as the Khojaly genocide, involved the extermination or capture of the thousands of Azerbaijanis; the town was razed to the ground. Over the night from 25 to 26 February 1992 the Armenian armed forces with the help of the infantry guards regiment No. 366 of the former USSR implemented the seizure of Khojaly – a small town situated in the Nagorny Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan with the total area of 0.94 sq. km. and the population before the conflict of 23,757. Some 613 civilians, including 106 women and 83 children were killed during this massacre.”

The Congress of European Azerbaijanis calls on the international organizations to support Azerbaijan and to restore rights of one million Azerbaijani refugees.


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