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    NKR MFA STATEMENT ON KHOJALY EVENTS

    armradio.am
    26.02.2010 11:47

    Press Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno
    Karabakh Republic has issued a statement in connection with the
    anniversary of the tragic events in the settlement of Khojaly. The
    statement reads:

    "The anti-Armenian campaign in connection with the regular anniversary
    of the tragic events in the settlement of Khojaly, which has set
    everybody's teeth on edge for a long time, has gained an unprecedented
    scope this year in Azerbaijan.

    In connection with the insinuations of official Baku, the Press
    Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno Karabakh
    Republic considers it necessary to remind that a military operation
    was organized on February 25-26, 1992 with the aim of unblocking the
    only airport in the Republic situated near the settlement of Khojaly
    and neutralizing the fire-points of the enemy just in Khojaly, from
    where, beginning from spring 1991, the settlements of Nagorno Karabakh
    were regularly attacked by the Azerbaijani OMON-members and exposed
    to artillery bombardment, including from "Grad" rocket launchers -
    weapon of mass destruction (WMD) prohibited by numerous international
    conventions.

    Fulfilling a vital goal for the Karabakh people, the units of the
    NKR self-defense forces, attacking Khojaly, provided a corridor
    for the civilians' safe leaving the military activities zone, about
    which the Azerbaijani party was informed beforehand. This fact was
    repeatedly confirmed by the Azerbaijani officials, in particular, the
    then President Ayaz Mutalibov. But, the Azerbaijani authorities made
    nothing for the peaceful population's withdrawal from the military
    activities area. Moreover, a column of civilians was shot down at the
    approaches to the Aghdam region's border, which was later confirmed by
    Mutalibov, connecting this criminal act with the opposition's attempts
    to remove him from his position, making him responsible for the events.

    The territory, where pictures of numerous corpses were made, is in a
    three-kilometer distance from the town of Aghdam and in 11 kilometers
    from Khojaly. Up to the summer of 1993, this territory was under
    permanent control of the Azerbaijani armed forces, which excluded
    any access for the units of the Karabakh self-defense forces.

    "The Azerbaijani official propaganda tries to blame Armenians for
    the killing of the civil population of Khojaly, but even Azerbaijani
    President Mutalibov admitted that "Armenians still provided a corridor
    for the civilians' leaving the place," Russian Nezavisimaya Gazeta
    from April 2, 1992 wrote. Also, Ogonyok journal (#14-15, 1992) noted
    that "...the attack of Khojaly wasn't sudden."

    Some details of that military operation are still shrouded in mystery,
    which is actively speculated by the Azerbaijani state propagandistic
    machine, using various falsifications, forgeries, and obvious lie.

    Last year, the NKR MFA drew the public attention to the false photo
    placed at some Azerbaijani websites, including the one of a generator
    of false ideas - The Heydar Aliyev Fund (www.azerbaijan.az). In fact,
    the photo related immediately to the events in Kosovo and just as
    such, along with numerous others, was introduced at the Serbian,
    Albanian, and one of the specialized German forums, at the site of
    The New York Times authoritative journal, and others. This year,
    new forgeries have been added to the noted one. Thus, about 20 false
    photos used by the Azerbaijani party, in particular, those of the
    victims of the Kurdish pogroms in Turkey, the victims of the massacre
    in Srebrennitsa, and others, were introduced during the February
    24 presentation of the www.xocali.net project in Yerevan. Besides,
    outrageous falsifications were discovered in the lists of the Aghdam
    tragedy victims introduced by the Azerbaijani official structures -
    embassies, the presidential library, etc. Also, the site provides
    video-films about the interrogations of the Turks-Meskhetians,
    which testify that despite the Armenian party's warning of the
    Khojaly attack, the Azerbaijani servicemen banned the escape of the
    Turks-Meskhetians' families, which were artificially settled there
    by the Azerbaijani authorities.

    The Azerbaijani propaganda tries to introduce the betrayal of the
    Khojaly civilians by their high-rank compatriots as the Armenians'
    revenge for the bloody orgy in Sumgait.

    But, the remarks and assessments of the Khojaly events by some
    Azerbaijani top officials, human rights activists, and journalists
    refute flatly the false thesis of official Baku. Thus, Azerbaijani
    human rights activist Arif Yunusov wrote: "The town and its citizens
    were deliberately made victims of the political goal" (Azerbaijani
    Zerkalo newspaper, July 1992).

    Tamerlan Karayev, in due time Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the
    Azerbaijani Republic (now AR Ambassador to India), testified: "The
    tragedy was implemented by the Azerbaijani authorities," specifically
    "some of the top officials" (Mukhalifat Azerbaijani newspaper, April
    28, 1992).

    Heydar Aliyev admitted himself that "the former leadership of
    Azerbaijan is also guilty" of the Khojaly events. According to
    Bilik-Dunyasi Agency, still in April 1992 he expressed a cynically
    monstrous idea: "The bloodshed will do good to us. We shouldn't
    interfere in the course of the events." Did the "father" of Azerbaijan
    bear the responsibility for these words?

    Czech journalist Yana Mazalova who, by the Azerbaijanis' oversight,
    found herself in both groups of the mass media representatives, which
    were shown the "corpses defiled by Armenians," noted a sufficient
    difference in the latters' condition. Visiting the field immediately
    after the events, Mazalova didn't see any traces of barbarity on the
    corpses. And two days later, the journalists were shown the disfigured
    bodies already "prepared" for filming.

    The Russian Megalopolis-Express newspaper wrote: "We cannot but admit
    that if the Azerbaijani Popular Front had really far-reaching goals,
    so it has achieved them. Mutalibov is compromised and dismissed,
    the international community is shocked, the Azerbaijanis and the
    friendly Turks believed in the so-called "genocide of the Azerbaijani
    population in Khojaly."

    As it is known, still on February 26, 47 Armenian hostages were kept
    in Khojaly, which is deliberately concealed by the Azerbaijani mass
    media. After liberating Khojaly, there were only 13 of them (among
    them 6 women and a child), while the rest 34 were taken away in an
    unknown direction by the Azerbaijanis. So far, there is no information
    about there further fate. We only know that they were taken away from
    the village in the operation night, but they didn't enter Aghdam.

    It is evident that those who wanted to make a semblance of the corpses'
    defilement by Armenians disfigured, first of all, the bodies of the
    Armenian hostages in order that they couldn't be identified.

    Just for this purpose, the majority of the corpses were undressed, and
    just for this purpose, the victims' bodies were exposed to outrages,
    which changed them out of all recognition.

    Proceeding from the abovementioned facts, we can confidently state
    that the Azerbaijani party is guilty of the death of the civilians of
    Khojaly and the Armenian hostages kept there, and that the Azerbaijani
    party committed a monstrous crime against its own people for the sake
    of its political intrigues and struggle for power.

    It is already obvious for everybody that the "genocide" of Azerbaijanis
    in Khojaly is a myth created still by Heydar Aliyev and taken up by his
    throne-successor Aliyev-the-junior in order to draw the international
    community's attention away from the massacre of Armenians in Sumgait,
    Baku, Kirovabad, and many other populated-by-Armenians settlements,
    as well as to conceal the political, humanitarian, military, economic,
    and other penal offences of the Azerbaijani leadership against Armenian
    civilians and against its own people."

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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