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BAKU KEEPS IN FOCUS MOLDOVAN OMBUDSMAN INCIDENT
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
July 9 2013
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said Baku is observing
the pace of events in connection with Moldovan Ombudsman Aurelia
Grigoriu's incident to prevent any further pressure on her or using
any repression against her.
During a report at Armenian Parliament, Grigoriu stated that
the Khojaly genocide was committed by Armenians, and this is an
internationally recognized fact.
After a speech in Armenian parliament Grigoriu was not let out from
Armenia. She was kept in isolation and her life was threatened,
Grigoriu's close friend Todur Zanet, who kept contact with her,
told Trend.
Grigoriu managed to leave Yerevan, thanks to the help of the diplomatic
missions accredited in Yerevan, without apologizes, that were demanded
by the Armenian side. Currently, she is in Chisinau.
Speaking to a press conference on July 8, Mammadyarov said that
Azerbaijani ambassador to Moldova is observing the pace of events.
Earlier, Azerbaijani Ombudsman Elmira Suleymanova condemned pressures
and restrictions on freedom of Moldovan Ombudsman Aurelia Grigoriu
in Armenia, because of her speech at the parliament of this country.
Exerting pressure for statement of historical fact, which is recognized
by the international community and international organizations,
against a person who is engaged in the protection of human rights
and a representative of a foreign state, once again demonstrated
to the world that this country is not a legal, democratic state,
Suleymanova said in her statement.
Azerbaijani Ombudsman urged international organizations, including
all her colleagues, not to remain indifferent to this incident.
Late into the night of February 25, 1992, the town of Khojaly,
situated within the administrative borders of the Nagorno-Karabakh
region of Azerbaijan, came under intensive fire from the towns of
Khankendi and Askeran already occupied by Armenian armed forces. The
Armenian forces, supported by the ex-Soviet 366th regiment, completed
the surrounding of the town already isolated due to ethnic cleansing
of the Azerbaijani population of the neighboring regions. The joint
forces occupied the town, which was ruined by heavy artillery shelling.
Thousands of fleeing civilians were ambushed by the Armenian forces.
Punitive teams of the so-called Nagorno-Karabakh defense army reached
the unprotected civilians to slaughter them, mutilating some of
the bodies. 613 civilians, including 106 women, 70 elderly and 83
children, were killed in the massacre. A total of 1,000 civilians were
disabled. Eight families were exterminated, and 25 children lost both
parents, while 130 children lost one parent. Moreover, 1,275 innocent
people were taken hostage, while the fate of 150 remains unknown.
http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/56517.html
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
July 9 2013
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said Baku is observing
the pace of events in connection with Moldovan Ombudsman Aurelia
Grigoriu's incident to prevent any further pressure on her or using
any repression against her.
During a report at Armenian Parliament, Grigoriu stated that
the Khojaly genocide was committed by Armenians, and this is an
internationally recognized fact.
After a speech in Armenian parliament Grigoriu was not let out from
Armenia. She was kept in isolation and her life was threatened,
Grigoriu's close friend Todur Zanet, who kept contact with her,
told Trend.
Grigoriu managed to leave Yerevan, thanks to the help of the diplomatic
missions accredited in Yerevan, without apologizes, that were demanded
by the Armenian side. Currently, she is in Chisinau.
Speaking to a press conference on July 8, Mammadyarov said that
Azerbaijani ambassador to Moldova is observing the pace of events.
Earlier, Azerbaijani Ombudsman Elmira Suleymanova condemned pressures
and restrictions on freedom of Moldovan Ombudsman Aurelia Grigoriu
in Armenia, because of her speech at the parliament of this country.
Exerting pressure for statement of historical fact, which is recognized
by the international community and international organizations,
against a person who is engaged in the protection of human rights
and a representative of a foreign state, once again demonstrated
to the world that this country is not a legal, democratic state,
Suleymanova said in her statement.
Azerbaijani Ombudsman urged international organizations, including
all her colleagues, not to remain indifferent to this incident.
Late into the night of February 25, 1992, the town of Khojaly,
situated within the administrative borders of the Nagorno-Karabakh
region of Azerbaijan, came under intensive fire from the towns of
Khankendi and Askeran already occupied by Armenian armed forces. The
Armenian forces, supported by the ex-Soviet 366th regiment, completed
the surrounding of the town already isolated due to ethnic cleansing
of the Azerbaijani population of the neighboring regions. The joint
forces occupied the town, which was ruined by heavy artillery shelling.
Thousands of fleeing civilians were ambushed by the Armenian forces.
Punitive teams of the so-called Nagorno-Karabakh defense army reached
the unprotected civilians to slaughter them, mutilating some of
the bodies. 613 civilians, including 106 women, 70 elderly and 83
children, were killed in the massacre. A total of 1,000 civilians were
disabled. Eight families were exterminated, and 25 children lost both
parents, while 130 children lost one parent. Moreover, 1,275 innocent
people were taken hostage, while the fate of 150 remains unknown.
http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/56517.html