Khojaly massacre in world media - UPDATE

The Egypt-based “Al-Ahram International” newspaper has published an article entitled “The Khojaly genocide: silence of international community.”

The article highlightes atrocities committed by the Armenian armed forces and 366 motor-infantry regiment of former USSR against innocent people of Azerbaijan in Khojaly. The author of the article says as a result of the bloodshed committed in Khojaly in 1992, 613 innocent civilians were killed and 1275 were taken hostage, while the fate of 150 remains unknown. “Twenty percent of Azerbaijani territories is under Armenian occupation.”

The article goes on to say that legislative bodies of several countries have already given political and legal assessment to the Khojaly genocide. “The Khojaly tragedy was described as a crime against humanity in the final document adopted in the summit of the
Organization of Islamic Conference held in February 2-7 in Cairo.

Heads of state and government of OIC member states called the international community in the document to recognize the Khojaly tragedy as genocide.”

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Popular Dutch newspaper «ADgezet» published an article about the Khojaly tragedy, chairman of ‘Ana Vatan’ Association of Azerbaijani Women of the Netherlands Maisa Agamirzayeva told.

The article brings the readers’ attention to the 1992 massacre of nearly 1000 Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Khojaly by Armenian and Russian military forces.

The article was prepared by the joint efforts of ‘Ana Vatan’ Association of Azerbaijani Women of the Netherlands, "Holland – Azerbaijan - Turkey" Cultural Center, Azerbaijani youth living in Holland.

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Arabic daily in Jordan “Al-Rai” posted an article on the 21st anniversary of Khojaly genocide, as well as the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by Azerbaijani ambassador to the country Sabir Aghabayov.

The author praises the Azerbaijan-Jordan relations and he stresses that Jordan supports Azerbaijan`s position in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The author informs readers on resolution adopted in the seventh meeting of Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation which describes the Khojaly genocide as a crime against humanity, condemns Armenia`s aggressive policy against Azerbaijan, and stresses the fact that the UN Security Council resolutions remain unfulfilled.


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