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25 February 2011 [14:43] - Today.Az
Toronto University (Canada) hosted a presentation commemorating the 19th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide on Thursday.
The event, organized by the Azerbaijani Student Association at the University of Toronto (AzSA) and the Azerbaijani-American Council (AAC), was attended by students, representatives of the Azerbaijani and Turkish communities in Canada, as well as representatives of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Canada.
AzSA representatives Togrul Ibrahimli and Isgender Gadirzade delivered keynote addresses at the presentation. They informed the audience about the facts and figures of the massacre of Azerbaijanis by Armenian armed forces when occupying Khojaly.
Speaking at the event, General Director of the Azerbaijani-American Council Dr. Javid Huseynov drew parallels between the Khojaly genocide (February 1992) and Srebrenica (July 1995). He noted that in 2007 the International Tribunal in Hague recognized the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica as a genocide, while the genocide in Khojaly remained outside the focus of the Western public. In March 2010, the Serbian parliament showed goodwill by formally recognizing and asking for a pardon for the crime committed by the Serbian forces. Meanwhile, the leadership of Armenia has shamelessly and brutally refuted the crime.
An Eurasian Research Institute documentary on mass extermination of Azerbaijanis in Guba by the Dashnak forces in March 1918 was also screened at the event.
Upon the conclusion of the event, views were exchanged on the role of the Azerbaijani and Turkish communities in bringing the truth of the genocide to the Canadian public.
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