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  • KHOJALY: Fatullaev's Karabakh Diary (Fragment)

    FATULLAEV'S KARABAKH DIARY (FRAGMENT)

    http://www.xocali.net/EN/realazer.html

    KHOJALY: The chronicle of unseen forgery and falsification

    "THEY MANAGED TO EVACUATE THE CATTLE, BUT NOT THE PEOPLE"

    Seeing Khojaly I couldn't conceal my consternation. Having been
    destroyed to the ground, this Azerbaijani settlement is completely
    restored, and transformed into a town Ivanovka in honor of Armenian
    general having taken an active part in the occupation of Khojaly.

    The Khojaly tragedy, the deep wounds in our souls inflicted by
    Armenian expansionism on this long-suffering Azerbaijani land,
    run all through my meetings in Askeran.

    How is that? Isn't there anything humane left in these people?

    However, for the sake of justice I admit that several years ago I
    met some Khojaly refugees who temporarily lived in Nafatalan and
    who openly confessed that the day before the large scale attack of
    Russian-Armenian contingent army on Khojaly, the town was encircled.

    And several days before the attack, Armenians gave the inhabitants
    warnings by loudspeakers about the planned operation and suggested
    that the population abandon the settlement and break out the
    encirclement by the humanitarian corridor, along the bank of the
    river Kar-Kar. According to Khojaly inhabitants, they made use of that
    corridor, and the Armenian soldiers being at this corridor, in fact,
    didn't open fire at them. Several soldiers from the NFA battalion,
    for some reason, helped part of the Khojaly inhabitants out to the
    village Nakhijevanik which at that time was under control of Askeran
    battalion of Armenians. The rest of the population was straddled by
    artillery fire at the foot of Aghdam region.

    Being in Askeran, I listened to the assistant chief of the Askeran
    local authorities Slavik Arushanyan and compared his recollections
    with the words of Khojali inhabitants who were under fire from the
    Azerbaijani side.

    I asked S. Arushanyan to help me to show the corridor through which
    the Khojaly inhabitants went out. Getting to know the geographical
    surroundings, I can state with a full conviction that conjectures about
    the absence of Armenian corridor are groundless. The corridor indeed
    existed. Otherwise the Khojali inhabitants, completely surrounded and
    isolated from the outer world, could never have breached the rings
    and get out of the encirclement. However, getting over the area at
    the river Kar-Kar, the line of the refugees divided into groups and
    nobody knows why one part of the Khojali people made their way to the
    direction of Nakhijevanik. It seems that battalions of NFA strived
    not for the liberation of Khojaly inhabitants, but longed for much
    blood on the way of A. Mutalibov's overthrow.

    As S. Arushanyan says: "Several days before the attack, your then
    president A. Mutalibov gave a telephone call to Stepanakert and
    made a request to Lazarian, our former president. He requested to
    provide conditions for the people to leave the blockade Khojaly. In
    reply Lazarian asked A. Mutalibov - why aren't you interested in
    your people's destiny? The helicopters sent from Baku are loaded by
    the cattle and not by people."

    Yes, they managed to evacuate the cattle, but not the people. Such
    are the sad recollections about the first Karabakh war.

    I asked the Askeran inhabitants: "I was told in Karabakh that
    Azerbaijani live here. Is it true?"

    "We can visit them right now", answered S. Arushanyan to my surprise.

    Indeed, in the very centre of Askeran, lives an Azerbaijani by name
    Tofik Aliev. And the most interesting thing is that learning that I
    am from Baku, he wasn't embarrassed at all.

    - I have lived here since 1960. We moved here from Ujar region. After
    the beginning of the mass disturbances I moved to Azerbaijan and
    again returned to Ujar. I couldn't survive there.

    - When did you return to Askeran?

    - In 1991. True, at some moment they wanted to kill me.

    Here S. Arushanyan interrupted our conversation: "I told the guys then-
    why to kill him? What is he guilty of? Today there is no difference
    for us what nationality Tofik is".

    Well, this story shocked me so much that, returning to Karabakh, I was
    eager to share my impressions with readers. And how astonished I was
    when the so-called minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Mamedyarov disproved
    my impressions and estimated them by a beloved word "provocation".

    Eynulla Fatulaev (Baku) Lachin-Shusha-Aghdam-Khankendi-Baku Source:
    newspaper "Realniy Azerbaijan"

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