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AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT-FOR-LIFE LAYS RESPONSIBILITY FOR KHOJALY ON ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES AND "KARABAKH SEPARATISTS"
arminfo
Friday, February 24, 21:24
The responsibility for "genocide in Khojaly" lies on the Armenian
authorities and "the Karabakh separatists", Azeri President Ilham
Aliyev says in his statement timed to the 20th anniversary of the
tragedy in Khojaly.
The statement of the president-for-life qualifies the tragedy in
Khojaly as a bloody and tragic page of the "Armenia's policy of
expansionism". And the political and legal responsibility for that
grave crime "directly lies on the former and present leadership of
Armenia, on the separatist regime of Nagorno- Karabakh". "Having
committed the Khojaly genocide, the enemy hoped to frighten the Azeri
people, to make them give up the fight for sovereignty and territorial
integrity, and to seize our lands forcibly. But this tragedy made our
people even stronger", Aliyev says. He adds that those who committed
the "Khojaly genocide" will sooner or later appear before the fair
court and will be punished.
Maj.-Gen. Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan (Commandos), hero of the Karabakh
war, who personally led the operation on liberation of Khojaly,
says that sanguinary battles really took place in Karabakh on 25-26
Feb 1992, and numerous people of the local population died on both
sides. The Nagorno-Karabakh defense army organized an operation to
capture the Khojaly airport and to destroy the local firing points,
wherefrom the Azeris had been regularly attacking and shelling the
nearby Nagorno-Karabakh villages since the spring 1991.
Azeri President Ayaz Mutalibov confirmed later that the
Nagorno-Karabakh authorities had informed the Azeris of their plans
to destroy the Khojaly firing points as early as two months before
the operation. He also confirmed that the Nagorno-Karabakh troops
opened a corridor for the villagers. But the Azeris did nothing to
remove their compatriots from the zone.
As a result of that anti-national policy of the People's Front
of Azerbaijan, hundreds of peaceful Khojaly residents were killed
10-11 km away from their village. They were shot down by their own
soldiers, who took them for Armenians. This fact was later confirmed
by Mutalibov, who said that it was part of the opposition's attempts
to remove him from power by blaming him for the tragedy.
From: Baghdasarian
arminfo
Friday, February 24, 21:24
The responsibility for "genocide in Khojaly" lies on the Armenian
authorities and "the Karabakh separatists", Azeri President Ilham
Aliyev says in his statement timed to the 20th anniversary of the
tragedy in Khojaly.
The statement of the president-for-life qualifies the tragedy in
Khojaly as a bloody and tragic page of the "Armenia's policy of
expansionism". And the political and legal responsibility for that
grave crime "directly lies on the former and present leadership of
Armenia, on the separatist regime of Nagorno- Karabakh". "Having
committed the Khojaly genocide, the enemy hoped to frighten the Azeri
people, to make them give up the fight for sovereignty and territorial
integrity, and to seize our lands forcibly. But this tragedy made our
people even stronger", Aliyev says. He adds that those who committed
the "Khojaly genocide" will sooner or later appear before the fair
court and will be punished.
Maj.-Gen. Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan (Commandos), hero of the Karabakh
war, who personally led the operation on liberation of Khojaly,
says that sanguinary battles really took place in Karabakh on 25-26
Feb 1992, and numerous people of the local population died on both
sides. The Nagorno-Karabakh defense army organized an operation to
capture the Khojaly airport and to destroy the local firing points,
wherefrom the Azeris had been regularly attacking and shelling the
nearby Nagorno-Karabakh villages since the spring 1991.
Azeri President Ayaz Mutalibov confirmed later that the
Nagorno-Karabakh authorities had informed the Azeris of their plans
to destroy the Khojaly firing points as early as two months before
the operation. He also confirmed that the Nagorno-Karabakh troops
opened a corridor for the villagers. But the Azeris did nothing to
remove their compatriots from the zone.
As a result of that anti-national policy of the People's Front
of Azerbaijan, hundreds of peaceful Khojaly residents were killed
10-11 km away from their village. They were shot down by their own
soldiers, who took them for Armenians. This fact was later confirmed
by Mutalibov, who said that it was part of the opposition's attempts
to remove him from power by blaming him for the tragedy.
From: Baghdasarian