Turkish diaspora in U.S. calls for recognition of war crimes in Srebrenica and Khojaly

The Union of the Turkish Diaspora in the U.S., Pax Turcica, has made an appeal urging the recognition of the war crimes in Srebrenica and Khojaly.

The appeal says: “In July 2013, the international community remembers the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, the worst atrocity on European soil since the Second World War. Over 8,000 Bosnian Muslims, mostly men and boys, have been executed by the Bosnian Serb forces led by Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic. Both the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice issued verdicts recognizing this war crime as an act of genocide.”

Pax Turcica says: “While the war crimes in the Balkans drew a fitting international response, another one committed in Eastern Europe during the early 1990s did not. In the last days of February 1992, the Armed forces of Armenia massacred hundreds of Azerbaijani civilians, including women, elders and children, during their assault on the town of Khojaly. The victims of this massacre have been denied justice up to date due to the ongoing Armenian occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding Azerbaijani territories, and as the Armenian government continues to deny responsibility for the massacre.”

“Join the Pax Turcica action campaign calling for a proper recognition and remembrance for victims of the war crimes in Srebrenica and Khojaly.”


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