An anti-Armenian campaign has been hysterically raging
in Azerbaijan throughout the years following the Khojalu (Khojaly) events. The
purpose of the campaign is to falsify the facts and bring discredit on Armenia
in the eyes of the international community. The Khojalu (Khojaly) events, when peaceful people died, were only the result of
the political intrigues and struggle for power in Azerbaijan.
The
Azerbaijani propaganda trumpeted about the ‘barbarities of Armenians’ to the
whole world spreading terrifying shots by TV channels – a field covered by
defiled corpses. It was said that Khojalu (Khojaly) is
the “revenge of Armenians for “Sumgait”.
The real reasons lying
behind these events are more convincingly reflected in the testimonies of the
Azeris themselves, both the participants, eyewitnesses of the events and those
who knew the ins and outs in Baku.
The Azeri side is
categorically silent about the place of the death of hundreds of residents of
the village. The truth is that all of them were coolly murdered at the distance
of 11 km
from Khojalu (Khojaly), about 2-3 km far from Aghdam which
then used to be the regional military base of the Azeri armed forces. This mere
fact is enough for casting light on the intricate story about the massive
extinction of the residents of Khojalu (Khojaly). It is hard to understand why should the Armenians let the
population of Khojalu flee from the besieged village to kill them on the
approaches of Aghdam putting their lives at risk (then Aghdam was under the
control of the Azeris).
Who killed the peaceful
people of Khojalu (Khojaly) and
later defiled their bodies, if the tragedy took place not in the village
liberated by the Armenians, and not along the direction of the humanitarian
corridor, but on the close approaches of Aghdam town, a territory which was
entirely under the control of the National Front of Azerbaijan? Chingiz Moustafayev
(Fuat-oghli), an independent Azeri TV journalist and cameraman who filmed the
aftereffect on February 28 and March 2, 1992, doubted the official version of
Azerbaijan and began his own investigation. His life was the price for his very
first report to the Moscow News Agency "DR-Press" about the possible
involvement of the Azeri side in the crime: he was killed not far from Aghdam,
and the details of the murder still remain not revealed.
I think you don't have the right to tell all these, after what a popular
Armenian person Z.Balayan says in his "Revival of our Spirits". Please,
open and read what this guy writes (who was wanted by Interpol till this
decision was cancelled as a result of Russian pressure).
Z. Balayan several times assured that he had not authored such a book. So,
please do not state here what Azerbaijan's state propaganda says.
Only after he
realized that it was a big mistake to confess it. What about the interview of
the Armenian president to Tomas De Vaal? I hope you don't think that Tomas De
Vaal is an Azerbaijani and I hope you are not going to deny what the president
of Armenia said to him about the massacre. The main actor of the massacre
confessed the horror, you cannot cover the sun with dirt. Kind regards.
What you have said sounds senseless: Do you mean that
Z. Balayan denied his book after it was published and publicly announced?!
Then, I would
like to say that Thomas de Waal is not an “independent expert” as he
claims:
Read:
HOW CAN THOMAS
DE WALL BE AN "INDEPENDENT" EXPERT?:
Thomas de Waal
has finally published the full text of his “scandalous” interview, which proved
the groundlessness of the anti-Armenian propaganda and hate speech towards
Khojaly events. You can read the full text (in Russian only) of interview with Serzh
Sargsyan done on Dec. 15, 2000:
In the full
text, Sargsyan mentioned about the humanitarian corridor left for civilian
population to leave Khojaly. In the first paragraph Sargsyan did not say the
Armenians killed the civilian population in Khojaly (see the explanation
below). Otherwise, it would contradict what he mentioned about opening the
humanitarian corridor (which appeared in the full text of the interview). He
also said that when the shell flies it would not differentiate between
civilians and militants as with civilian population there were also militants.
Sargsyan added that when the civilian population remained there, though there
was a wonderful opportunity to leave, this meant it took part in the military
operations. The last part of Sargsyan's statement was decisive; he said:
'And
the corridor was left for them not for the reason to shoot
them somewhere, shooting was possible in Khojalu, and not in the vicinity of
Aghdam'.
We say: Why
would the Armenians open the humanitarian corridor for the civilian population to leave (which they always did during the military operations, as
was also done in Kelbajar, where 60 thousand population were allowed to leave)
and then kill them at outskirts putting themselves at risk?!
By comparing
what Thomas de Waal had written in his book (Black Garden: Armenia and
Azerbaijan through Peace and War, New York University Press, 2003, p. 172), which
is used widely by Azeri propaganda, with this (full) text, one may conclude
that de Waal deliberately distorted Sargsyan’s statement, and he was enforced
to publish the full text of the interview only after being defied.
In his book,
for example, he did not mention about the corridor which was opened by the
Armenians in Khojaly for evacuating civilian population (He only said:”Only one
exit out of Khojali was open”, p. 170), which was confessed by Azeri officials
themselves, took only the first paragraph of Sargsyan's statement, so that the
meaning of the paragraph was distorted and put the responsibility of the
tragedy on the Armenians.
By
the beginning of the assault part of the civilian population of Khojalu
(Khojaly) left the settlement, and by the end of February 1992, according to
various sources, some 1000 to 2500 people still remained there, mostly peaceful
civilians and soldiers of Azerbaijani armed formations. By keeping the civilian
population in the village and not evacuating all of them, the Azeri leaders
used them as human shields and part of military operations, thinking that they
were “joking with us (the Armenians)”, and that “the Armenians were people who
could not raise their hand against the civilian population”. It means that the
Azeris thought that by keeping the civilian population as human shields in the
village the Armenians would not dare to attack it and conduct the first huge
military operation in Artsakh-Karabakh liberation war.
With
Shushi and Aghdam, Khojalu (Khojaly) was one of the key bases from where
Stepanakert, the capital of NKR, was continuously bombed during three winter
months – shelled steadily and mercilessly, with the use of artillery, antihail
rocket systems and war missile emplacements.
On
February 15, 1992 the Armenian side made an ultimatum: the civilian population
of Khojalu (Khojaly) was offered to leave with a white flag. The detachments of
NKR did everything possible to exclude the death of the peaceful population of
the settlement and left a corridor for the safe evacuation of the peaceful
population from the zone of military actions. The Azeri side was timely
informed about the opened corridor which allowed evacuating the people of
Khojalu (Khojaly). Order number 1, regulating the conduct of the members of the
Armenian armed forces of NKR self-defense; strictly forbid any violence against
the civilians of the adversary.
The
Azeri side is categorically silent about the place of the death of hundreds of
residents of the village. The truth is that all of them were coolly murdered at
the distance of 11 km from Khojalu (Khojaly), about 2-3 km far from Aghdam
which then used to be the regional military base of the Azeri armed forces.
This mere fact is enough for casting light on the intricate story about the
massive extinction of the residents of Khojalu (Khojaly). It is hard to
understand why should the Armenians let the population of Khojalu(Khojaly) flee
from the besieged village to kill them on the approaches of Aghdam putting
their lives at risk (then Aghdam was under the control of the Azeris).
You choose to
neglect dozens of testimonies, including former President Mutalibov and other
Azeri officials’ testimonies, as well as eye-witness and independent accounts,
and only quote one paragraph of Sargsyan’s interview given to Thomas de Waal,
which was proved to be distorted.
I suggest you read these articles:
Think about one question: Why the killed were in the
immediate vicinity of the Azerbaijani positions, where the Armenians never
appeared at that time?! Best
regards
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