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ARMENIA'S EMBASSY TO US SPREADS STATEMENT ON KHOJALY EVENTS
21:08, 3 March, 2014
YEREVAN, MARCH 3, ARMENPRESSO~I Azerbaijani diplomacy and propaganda
continues to mislead the international community and Azerbaijani
people by falsifying the essence and the history of the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict and the facts about the Khojaly events in
particular. Armenpress reports that the Embassy of the Republic of
Armenia to the United States of America spread a statement about the
Khojaly events. By distorting the Khojaly events, Azerbaijani regime
attempts to escape the responsibility for the Armenian massacres in
Sumgait (February, 1988), Kirovabad (November, 1988), Baku (January,
1990), Maragha (April, 1992) and against its own population in
Khojaly. Azerbaijan strives to portray itself as a victim, thus trying
to prepare a moral ground both domestically and internationally to
unleash another war against Nagorno Karabakh.
"Azerbaijan continues to reject international appeals, including
by the European Court of Human Rights, to openly debate about the
events in Khojaly. In that regard one can only ask why all who have
expressed points of views differing from Azerbaijani official version
of the events have been either killed, like journalist Mustafayev,
or imprisoned like journalist Fatullayev, or politically persecuted
like Ayaz Mutalibov, the first president of Azerbaijan?" - says
the statement.
The Embassy reminded about the statements of the Azerbaijani figures on
Khojaly events. As Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev stated:
"And even several days prior to the attack, the Armenians had been
continuously warning the population about the planned operation
through loudspeakers and suggesting that the civilians abandon the
town and escape from the encirclement through a humanitarian corridor.
According to the Khojaly refugees' own words, they had used this
corridor and, indeed, the Armenian soldiers positioned behind the
corridor had not opened fire on them". However, goes on Fatullayev
"... part of the Khojaly inhabitants had been fired upon by our own
[Azerbaijani troops]... Whether it was done intentionally or not is
to be determined by investigators ... They werekilled not by some
mysterious shooters".
Ayaz Mutalibov, then the president of Azerbaijan blamed his political
opponents for killings in Khojaly. He stated in an interview that
"...the corridor, by which people could escape, had nonetheless been
left by the Armenians. So, why did they have to open fire? Especially
in the area around Aghdam, where there was sufficient force at that
time to get help to the people".
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/752349/armenia%E2%80%99s-embassy-to-us-spreads-statement-on-khojaly-events.html
21:08, 3 March, 2014
YEREVAN, MARCH 3, ARMENPRESSO~I Azerbaijani diplomacy and propaganda
continues to mislead the international community and Azerbaijani
people by falsifying the essence and the history of the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict and the facts about the Khojaly events in
particular. Armenpress reports that the Embassy of the Republic of
Armenia to the United States of America spread a statement about the
Khojaly events. By distorting the Khojaly events, Azerbaijani regime
attempts to escape the responsibility for the Armenian massacres in
Sumgait (February, 1988), Kirovabad (November, 1988), Baku (January,
1990), Maragha (April, 1992) and against its own population in
Khojaly. Azerbaijan strives to portray itself as a victim, thus trying
to prepare a moral ground both domestically and internationally to
unleash another war against Nagorno Karabakh.
"Azerbaijan continues to reject international appeals, including
by the European Court of Human Rights, to openly debate about the
events in Khojaly. In that regard one can only ask why all who have
expressed points of views differing from Azerbaijani official version
of the events have been either killed, like journalist Mustafayev,
or imprisoned like journalist Fatullayev, or politically persecuted
like Ayaz Mutalibov, the first president of Azerbaijan?" - says
the statement.
The Embassy reminded about the statements of the Azerbaijani figures on
Khojaly events. As Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev stated:
"And even several days prior to the attack, the Armenians had been
continuously warning the population about the planned operation
through loudspeakers and suggesting that the civilians abandon the
town and escape from the encirclement through a humanitarian corridor.
According to the Khojaly refugees' own words, they had used this
corridor and, indeed, the Armenian soldiers positioned behind the
corridor had not opened fire on them". However, goes on Fatullayev
"... part of the Khojaly inhabitants had been fired upon by our own
[Azerbaijani troops]... Whether it was done intentionally or not is
to be determined by investigators ... They werekilled not by some
mysterious shooters".
Ayaz Mutalibov, then the president of Azerbaijan blamed his political
opponents for killings in Khojaly. He stated in an interview that
"...the corridor, by which people could escape, had nonetheless been
left by the Armenians. So, why did they have to open fire? Especially
in the area around Aghdam, where there was sufficient force at that
time to get help to the people".
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/752349/armenia%E2%80%99s-embassy-to-us-spreads-statement-on-khojaly-events.html