{"id":9354,"date":"2021-02-24T16:04:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=9354"},"modified":"2021-02-24T16:04:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:04:51","slug":"khojaly-genocide-one-of-the-darkest-pages-in-the-history-of-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/khojaly-genocide-one-of-the-darkest-pages-in-the-history-of-20th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"KHOJALY GENOCIDE -One of the Darkest Pages in the History of 20th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Khazar Ibrahim<\/h3>\n

The Khojaly “genocide” committed in 1992 against hundreds of Azerbaijanis by Armenians was one of the darkest pages in the history of the 20th century.The tragedy happened during the military aggression of Armenia against Azerbaijan, which started in the late 1980s in the final stages of the USSR.<\/h3>\n

And then it turned into the very hot period, and in 1992 Khojaly genocide was committed against Azerbaijani civilians. Elderly people, women, kids, babies were killed, maimed and taken hostages, and the fate of most of them are still not known until today.<\/h3>\n

On the heels of the Soviet Union’s dissolution, Armenian forces took over the town of Khojaly in Karabakh on Feb. 26, 1992, after battering it with heavy artillery and tanks, assisted by an infantry regiment.<\/h3>\n

The Khojaly Massacre is seen as one of the most bloodiest incidents committed by Armenian forces against Azerbaijani civilians for control of the Upper Karabakh region.<\/h3>\n

The two-hour Armenian offensive killed 613 Azerbaijani citizens — including 106 women, 63 children and 70 elderly — and critically injured 487 others, according to Azerbaijani figures.<\/h3>\n

Also, 150 of the 1,275 Azerbaijanis that the Armenians captured during the massacre remain missing. In the massacre, eight families were completely wiped out, while 130 children lost one parent, and 25 children lost both parents.<\/h3>\n

The world saw this genocide, noting that not just Azerbaijani journalists but also many international media representatives happened to be around Khojaly, and they witnessed those people and survivors.<\/h3>\n

On Feb. 28, 1992, two helicopters with a group of journalists managed to reach the location of the massacre. On March 1 of the same year, a group of foreign and local journalists also reached the place.<\/h3>\n

If people forget such tragedies, then it will be followed by other genocides and massacres. The massacres, which happened after Khojaly were probably emboldened by the lack of punishment for the perpetrators of the tragedy against Azerbaijani people.<\/h3>\n

Don\u2019t forget! If we forget, things happen again, and tomorrow it can be somebody else.<\/h3>\n

The Armenian side is trying to hide the truth, because it’s a harsh truth for them.There are a number of documents, video materials along with many local and international witnesses who can “testify the truth\u201d.<\/h3>\n

During the recent debate between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the 56th Munich Security Conference, Pashinyan \u201cunsuccessfully\u201d tried to blame the massacre on people of Azerbaijan.<\/h3>\n

We know that unfortunately, Armenian propaganda is working quite effectively in many parts of the world, in our neighborhood and far away, also on social media and on the Internet.<\/h3>\n

Azerbaijan soon after the independence, did not have enough resources or even the regular armed forces to defend its own lands.<\/h3>\n

On the contrary, Armenian side was well-prepared. They prepared for this offensive for quite a long time, and now it’s proven by many sources. Armenians got support from “outside” and they were getting weapons, with Armenian mercenaries \u2013 \u201cruthless and very brutal” well-trained members of terrorist organizations, coming from all around the world.<\/h3>\n

Maybe that is the reason why they showed no mercy to even children and women during Khojaly massacre and during other periods of the army aggression against Azerbaijan.<\/h3>\n

The situation has fortunately changed .Currently the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, its’ economy and the whole state trumps Armenia\u2019s resources and power.When we are right, we’re much stronger not only with our weapons, but also with our morality.<\/h3>\n

The terrorist organizations which committed crimes, assassinations of Turkish diplomats and their families, came more or less from the same sources.Armenian terror organizations have martyred 31 Turkish diplomats and family members since the 1970s. The vast majority of the attacks were conducted by the so-called Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) and the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCAG).<\/h3>\n

Upper Karabakh is the internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan illegally occupied by Armenia through military aggression since 1991.Four UN Security Council (UNSC) and two General Assembly resolutions, as well as decisions by many other international organizations, refer to this fact and demand withdrawal of the occupational Armenian forces from Upper Karabakh and seven other occupied regions of Azerbaijan.<\/h3>\n

Armenians from the Republic of Armenia, who came and were also as brutal as those mercenaries who came from either Middle East, or some other geographies,made it even more tragic.The people who were living side by side with Azerbaijanis, they turned against their neighbors and committed this genocide.<\/h3>\n

The vivid example of the brutality was the former President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, who previously happened to live in Azerbaijan, and then turned to be one of the main figures who either ordered or took part in the Khojaly genocide.He did not shy away of telling that, yes, we did it [committed massacre], and we did it to change the stereotypes that Armenians cannot spill the blood.<\/h3>\n

Khojaly massacre was “well-organized, well-planned and well-strategized in order to punish Azerbaijani civilians and to make Azerbaijanis believe that Armenians can do this kind of crimes.<\/h3>\n

Note ; This peace of opinion has been selected from \u00a0an interview of Khazar Ibrahim, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Turkey for aa.com.tr conducted by Jeyhun Aliyev. We have reshaped it into an article only for it sheds light in a simple and brief manner on the most horrendous act of Armenia that is necessary to apprise the new readers with the facts of this massacre. Editor Pakistan in the World\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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