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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

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