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On the night of February 25-26, 1992, Armenian armed forces surrounded and attacked the town of Khojaly in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. Fleeing civilian population of this Azeri-populated town was subjected to killings brutality of which goes beyond any imagination. Over 600 people, including 106 women and 83 children, were tortured to their deaths in freezing temperatures, with hundreds more missing. Some shocking facts of the massacre include a stabbing and forcible removal of fetus from a pregnant woman, blinding and beheading children, maiming elders and shooting them at close ranges. According to Human Rights Watch, Khojaly Massacre was "the largest massacre to date in the conflict" over Nagorno-Karabakh (Human Rights Watch / Helsinki. Azerbaijan: Seven Years of Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. New York. 1994)
For 16 years after Khojaly, Armenian side officially denies its involvement and refuses to take responsibility for it. Some Armenian groups have even invented alternate stories alleging that Azerbaijanis killed their own people for political aims. Yet the fact of this crime against humanity was recited "proudly" by the Armenian participant of Karabakh war, current prime-minister and president-elect of Armenia, Serzh Sarkissian, as follows: "before Khojali, the Azerbaijanis thought that they were joking with us, they thought that the Armenians were people who could not raise their hand against the civilian population. We were able to break that [stereotype]." (Thomas De Waal. Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War, NYU Press, 2004)
Another detailed account of the Armenian involvement was given by Markar Melkonian in the book about his brother, Monte Melkonian, the leader of ASALA terrorist group in 1980s and Armenian field commander during Karabakh war, who witnessed Khojaly Massacre:
"By the morning of February 26, the refugees had made it to the eastern cusp of Mountainous Karabagh and had begun working their way downhill, toward safety in the Azeri city of Agdam, about six miles away. There, in the hillocks and within sight of safety, Mountainous Karabagh soldiers had chased them down... fighters had then unsheathed the knives they had carried on their hips for so long, and began stabbing.." (Markar Melkonian. My Brother's Road: An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005, p. 213)
To this day, the United States and other Western countries failed to properly recognize the memory of Khojaly victims. The facts of Khojaly, Massacre, a crime against humanity which preceded Srebrenica Massacre, were never completely pursued by the relevant U.S. or international bodies, those responsible for it were never brought to justice. Many of those suspected of perpetrating the massacre still remain in Armenia and the Armenian-occupied regions of Azerbaijan.
Le massacre de Khojaly (Xocalı) a causé la mort d'un très grand nombre de civils azerbaidjanais dans la ville de Xocalı le 25 février 1992 pendant la guerre du Haut-Karabagh. Selon les autorités azéries, Memorial Human Rights Center, Human Rights Watch et d'autres observateurs occidentaux, le massacre a été commis par les forces armées arméniennes, lesquelles auraient été aidées par le régiment n°366 de l'armée russe. Le nombre officiel de victimes fourni par les autorités azéries s'élève à 613 personnes civiles, dont 106 femmes et 83 enfants.
Dans la déclaration écrite No. 324[11], les membres de l'Assemblée Parlementaire du Conseil de l'Europe d'Albanie, d'Azerbaïdjan, de Turquie et du Royaume-Uni ainsi que les membres individuels de Bulgarie, de Luxembourg, de Macédoine et de Norvège ont déclaré que « le 26 février 1992, les Arméniens ont massacré l'entière population de Khodjaly et ont totalement détruit la ville » ; ils ont appelé l'Assemblée à reconnaître le massacre de Khodjaly comme faisant partie du « génocide perpétré par les Arméniens contre la population azérie ».
La tragédie de ce village HOCALI (Khodjali) en Azerbaïdjan qui a subit l'un des plus atroces massacre de l'histoire sous les yeux du monde, par les Arméniens.
" J'avais entendu beaucoup au sujet des guerres, au sujet des atrocités des fascistes, mais tuant les enfants à six ans, tuant les civils innocents, les Arméniens étaient le plus mauvais", dit un journaliste français, Jean-Yves Junet, qui a visité la scène de ce meurtre où se trouvaient les cadavres massés des femmes, des personnes âgées, des enfants et des défenseurs de Khojaly." |
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