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1 Karabaghi president Arkady Ghuasian, senior officials of executive and legislative government of Karabagh and other public figures visited the Monument dedicated to the 1988 Sumgait tragic events’ victims and paid homage to the memory of the victims. A divine liturgy was also served by the participation of senior clergymen. Anti-Armenian Violence Sumgait: The vigorous but mainly peaceful political activity in Karabakh and Yerevan was accompanied by a resumption of killings. On February 27, fanatical Azeri-Turks went on a three day rampage in Sumgait, a new industrial town 20 miles from Baku, murdering members of the town's large Armenian minority and destroying their property. According to the official Soviet account 32 died, but eyewitness reports stfongly suggest the true figure runs into the hundreds. Marina Pogosyan, a young survivor of the Sumgait massacre, testified: "On the twenty-sixth, a Friday, a friend of mine warned me to stay inside over the weekend. Still, I went to work - I taught in a nursery schood - and walked home at noon. That afternoon, there was another Azerbaijani rally, in downtown Sumgait, and then crowds of people went through the shopping area where Armenians worked, and broke windows and smashed things. I heard cries of 'Death to Armenians! Blood for blood!' It was mostly young people, and the police didn't stop thepn. Late that night, after we had gone to bed, we heard yelling on the street, and through the window I saw thousands of people in a mob marching through the street, most dressed in black, carrying clubs and Turkish flags with the half-moon. They were yelling,'Get out! Armenians are killing our people and you're sitting here! We must purge our city! The next day, we went to a neighbor's in the building for. her birthday party. We talked about what we had seen, but we thought it was just young hooligans, fhen a neighbor boy came in, looking pale. We asked him what was happening, and he said:'You don't know? They're killing and burning people out there, breaking into people's apartments.' We called the police, and they said:'Stay where you are. You're not the only ones. We can't help you.' A Russian neighbor came to us and invited us to wait in her apartment. There were about three families with her - fifteen people. We spent the whole night there. The mob came and knocked on our door, and she went outside and told them that we were not there - that we'd moved a week ago. A few times after that, they passed by and broke into neighbors' apartments. By that time, no Armenians were home. So there were no killings (in her building-ed.), but there was a lot of destruction. They threw the chairs and the dishes out of the window. I had absolutely no hope that we'd survive. I figured they'd kill us all sooner or later. The mob came again, but on Monday soldiers came in tanks and took us to the Party committee building." |
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1 February 27-29 1988: Azerbaijani mobs organize premeditated anti- Armenian pogroms in Sumgait, Azerbaijan, an industrial city on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Hundreds are killed. Nearly all of the remaining Armenian inhabitants hastily flee. United Press International, 2/29/88; New York Times, 3/1/88 http://i32.tinypic.com/28tvts9.jpg |
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1 Marina Pogosyan and her family were allowed to collect money and a few possessions before being flown to Yerevan. Most of Sumgait's Armenian community survived the attacks. Many, like Miss Pogosyan, were sheltered by brave Russian and Azeri-Turk neighbours. But the fate of those who fell into the hands of the mob was cruel. Lola Avakyan, a 37-year-old Armenian resident of Sumgait was one of the unfortunate. Seized by an Azeri-Turk crowd, she was stripped and forced to dance before having her breasts slashed and body burned with cigarettes. She was raped and then killed. Several AzeriTurks were arrested and convicted for their involvement in the mayhem. Sumgait postscript: On March 2, 1993, the Office of Azerbaijani Procurator announced that it had recommended that President Eichibey grant an amnesty to those convicted of violent offenses against Armenians during the Sumgait pogrom. The Procurator's Office reported that it expected the President to act according to its recommendation. On the same day, a proposal for the amnesty to be announced on May 28, 1993 - the 74th anniversary of the founding of the first Republic of Az. http://i30.tinypic.com/xmquqf.jpg |
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1 Tragic events took place in Martakert district Maraga village of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic exactly ten years ago – April 10, 1992, when according to different estimates 49 to 53 people were murdered. According to «Arminfo» agency report, over 50 others including 9 children were taken hostage. The fortune of most of them is still unknown. Unprecedented cruel crimes against the village peaceful residents were committed by the Azeri military units – Special destination militia detachments rushed into Maraga together with twenty tanks. The slaughter was renewed April 22, when the survived residents of Maraga returned to bury those dead. http://i28.tinypic.com/243kcuv.jpg http://i27.tinypic.com/6nw9xu.jpg The data on Maraga victims is confirmed by different international human rights organizations, in particular by «Helsinki Watch.» Having arrived at the tragedy scene Vice-Speaker of the House of Lords of the British Parliament Caroline Cox witnessed the people bury remains of cut up and sawed bodies, children and adults burnt alive. http://i32.tinypic.com/2hnnf3p.jpg http://i31.tinypic.com/2z6t35w.jpg http://i32.tinypic.com/rhixrq.jpg http://i28.tinypic.com/mw2yyd.jpg http://i31.tinypic.com/2hz00hf.jpg Baroness Caroline Cox has described Azeri atrocities in Maraga village in her book entitled «Ethnic cleansing continues». In particular, Cox waxes indignant over the fact that Azeris make high-sounding statements and appeal to various international organizations on the occasion of the events in khojalu, where in her words, everything was not so unambiguous, while the Armenians having at their disposal incontestable proofs of the atrocities present them to the international community insufficiently actively. The Maraga tragedy is viewed as one of the most horrible examples of genocide and is considered by the Karabakh side among Azerbaijan's bloody crimes in Getashen, Martunashen, Buzluh, Erkej and other settlements in the north of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic at the time of aggression in 1991-1992. |
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1 .../3 The Conflict Erupts: February 1988 On 20 February 1988, the Oblast Soviet of the NKAO weighed up the results of an unofficial referendum on the reattachment of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, held in the form of a petition signed by 80,000 people. In 1979, the entire population of the NKAO was 162,000, with 123,000 Armenians and 37,000 Azeris. On the basis of that referendum, the session of the Oblast Soviet of Nagorno-Karabakh adopted the appeals to the Supreme Soviets of the USSR, Azerbaijan and Armenia, asking them to authorize the secession of Karabakh from Azerbaijan and its attachment to Armenia. Baku rejected the NKAO Oblast Soviet's decision. The line taken by the Centre seemed to be to wait and see, giving the Azerbaijani authorities the opportunity to resolve the crisis as they saw fit. After the first direct clash between an Azeri crowd and Armenian residents, near Askeran, in which about 50 Armenians were wounded and two Azeri attackers killed, Deputy USSR Procurator-General A. Katusev, speaking on central TV on 27 February, told the audience about the killing of two young Azeris, specifically naming the nationality of those killed. This announcement may have acted as a catalyst. Within hours, a pogrom against Armenian residents began in the city of Sumgait, 25 km from Baku. The pogrom, obviously prepared months in advance and marked by forms of extreme cruelty, lasted for three days, with the Azeri police nowhere to be seen. Phone calls to the police or the ambulance service went unanswered. Leading AzCP functionaries took part in the meetings which preceded mob violence, and a local Party boss even led the crowds. Moreover, in 1988 the KGB machine with its network of informers was still functioning, from which it may be presumed that Baku, if not the KGB in Moscow, had known about the preparations for the pogrom. Soviet (Russian) troops, including those in Sumgait itself, apparently had strict orders not to shoot. It was not until the third day of the killings that Soviet troops finally intervened, arresting some small fry, mostly youngsters. On orders from Moscow, the Sumgait affair was judicially covered up and the press largely silenced. http://i29.tinypic.com/2bsgte.jpg |
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1 The failure of Soviet leaders to use force to protect civilians was to have important repercussions in subsequent ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus and Central Asia: by making it appear that violence paid, it unleashed a cycle of violence. It was clear that there would be no punishment for ejecting a national minority under the threat of terror. For the Armenians, Sumgait conjured up memories of the genocide by Young Turks in 1915, ever present in the Armenian psyche. Gorbachev's failure to act, though apparently intended to prevent a wider outbreak of violence in Azerbaijan, was viewed as a betrayal by the Armenians, for it was he who had inspired the hope that democracy would prevail on the national question as well. Ethnic Conflicts in the Caucasus 1988-1994 |
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by Hayk Demoyan, Levon Melik-Shakhnazaryan translated by Ruzanna Amiraghyan....So who expects armenians to write something different?...above mentioned names are the authors of the article, so, NO COMMENTS D/HEAD!!! |
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1 Typical azzik a/hole. He comments without reading it. It's based on your own sources, moron. Go milk a goat! |
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Mr, Fair D/head, mentioning there name of azeri sources does not make the article valuable as the article itself is the outcome of the racist hermenoid authors' work!!! |
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1 your head is made of granite, nothing will penetrate that space, even if it is the plain truth.Is that what you get in Azeri schools? They have turned your perception into a inflexible mess. |
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1 i wonder what and how u were taught in ur armenian schools to commit these genocides,... |
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I rather talk to a brick wall than a totally brainwashed robot like you. You don't trust our sources, now you don't even trust your own sources. So, who do you trust, your goats? Who The F..k are you or should I say, What the F..k are you? |
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1 During a discussion of the issue "On the Violation of Human Rights and Main Freedoms throughout the World" at the 57th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, the Azerbaijani delegation made a statement about the events in Khojaly from 1992. The Armenian delegation submitted to the Chairman of the UN Commission on Human Rights information on the actual events of February 1992, which was presented as an official document. The following is the text of the document: For nine years after the events in Khojaly, official Baku has been obstinately fanning anti-Armenian hysteria with the aim of falsifying real events and discrediting the Armenian people in the eyes of the international community. The events in Khojaly, which led to the deaths of civilians, were solely the result of political intrigue and a struggle for power in Azerbaijan. The real reasons are most convincingly reflected in the accounts of the Azerbaijanis themselves--as participants in and eyewitnesses of what happened--as well as of those who know the entire story of the internal politics in Baku. According to the Azerbaijani journalist M. Safarogly, "Khojaly occupied an important strategic position. The loss of Khojaly was a political fiasco for Mutalibov" (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, February 1993). Khojaly, along with Shushi and Aghdam, was one of the main strongholds from which Stepanakert, the capital of the Nagorno Karabagh Republic, was shelled continuously and mercilessly for three winter months with artillery, missiles, and launchers used for targeting cities. Disabling the weapons based in Khojaly and freeing the airport were the only way for the inhabitants of the Nagorno Karabagh Republic to ensure the physical survival of a population condemned by Azerbaijan to complete annihilation. The daily shelling of Stepanakert from nearby Khojaly took the lives of many peaceful Armenian civilians--including women, children, and elderly inhabitants of the city. The former President of Azerbaijan, Ayaz Mutalibov, emphasized that "the assault on Khojaly was not a surprise attack" (Ogonek, No. 14-15, 1992). In an interview he stated that "a corridor was kept open by the Armenians for people to leave" (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, April 1992). However, a column of civilians was fired upon by armed units of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan on the border of the Aghdam district. This fact was later confirmed by Mutalibov, who linked this criminal act to attempts by the opposition to remove him from power, and he blamed the Azerbaijani opposition entirely for this action. In a recent interview, Mutalibov confirmed his statement of nine years ago, that "the shooting of the Khojaly residents was obviously organized by someone to take control in Azerbaijan" (Novoye Vremya, March 6, 2001). Similar comments and views concerning the events in Khojaly were also made by several other highly-placed Azerbaijani officials and journalists. There is, moreover, the conclusion of the Azerbaijani journalist Arif Yunusov, who wrote, "The town and its inhabitants were deliberately sacrificed for a political purpose--to prevent the Popular Front of Azerbaijan from coming to power" (Zerkalo, July 1992). In this case, the Azerbaijanis themselves are named as the perpetrators of the tragedy. |
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1 Tamerlan Karayev, a former Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Azerbaijan Republic, said "The tragedy was committed by the authorities of Azerbaijan," and specifically by "someone highly-placed" (Mukhalifat, April 28, 1992). The Czech journalist Jana Mazalova, who by an oversight of the Azerbaijanis was included in two groups of press representatives to be shown the "bodies mutilated by the Armenians," noted a substantial difference during her two visits. When she went to the scene immediately after the events, Mazalova did not see any traces of barbarous treatment of the bodies. Yet a couple of days later the journalists were shown disfigured bodies "prepared" for photographs. Who killed the peaceful inhabitants of Khojaly and then mutilated their bodies, if the tragedy occurred not in a village taken by Armenians or on the route of the humanitarian corridor, but on the approaches to the town of Aghdam, on territory fully controlled by the Popular Front of Azerbaijan? The independent Azerbaijani cameraman Chingiz Mustafayev, who took pictures on February 28 and March 2, 1992, had doubts about the official Azerbaijani version and began his own inquiry. The journalist's very first report to the Moscow news agency D-Press on the possible complicity of the Azerbaijani side in the crimes cost Mustafayev his life. He was killed not far from Aghdam, under circumstances that are still unexplained. The current President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, himself recognized that Azerbaijan's "former leadership was also guilty" of the events in Khojaly. According to the Bilik-Dunyasy news agency, in April 1992 he commented, "The bloodshed will be to our advantage. We should not interfere in the course of events." To whose "advantage" was the bloodshed is clear. Megapolis-Express wrote, "It cannot be denied that if the Popular Front of Azerbaijan actually set far-reaching objectives, they have been achieved. Mutalibov has been compromised and overthrown, public opinion worldwide has been shaken, and the Azerbaijanis and their Turkish brethren have believed in the so-called 'genocide of the Azerbaijani people in Khojaly'" (Megapolis-Express, No. 17, 1992). One other tragic detail is worth noting. It has become known since then that 47 Armenian hostages were being held on February 26 in Khojaly, a fact that the Azerbaijani mass media covering the tragedy failed to mention. After the liberation of Khojaly, only 13 hostages--including six women and one child--were found there, the other 34 having been taken away by the Azerbaijanis to an unknown location. The only thing known about them is that they were led from the village on the night of the operation, but never reached Aghdam. There is still no information concerning what eventually happened to them or any confirmation that they continued to be held captive by the Azerbaijanis. Therefore, it is obvious that those who wanted to create the impression that bodies had been mutilated by the Armenians disfigured the bodies of these Armenian hostages in order to make it impossible to identify them. Precisely for that purpose, the clothing was removed from the bodies and the bodies of the unfortunate victims were so badly disfigured that they were unrecognizable. In the light of the above facts, it may confidently be said that the killing of the peaceful inhabitants of the village of Khojaly and of the Armenian hostages being held there was the work of the Azerbaijani side, which committed this crime against its own people in the name of political intrigue and the struggle for power. |
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1 They're probably busy on you tube badmouthing Armenians at every opportunity and pushing their lies like this khojaly myth. No hopers! |
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1 “For the sake of fairness I will admit that several years ago I met the refugees from Khojaly, temporarily settled in Naftalan, who openly confessed to me that, on the eve of the large-scale offensive of the Russian and Armenian troops on Khojaly, the town had been encircled [by those troops]. And already several days prior to the attack, the Armenians had been continuously warning the population about the planned operation through loudspeakers and proposing that the civilians abandon the town and escape from the encirclement through a humanitarian corridor along the Kar-Kar River. 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. Some soldiers from the battalions of the NFA [the National Front of Azerbaijan, a political party], for some reason, had led a part of the [refugees] in the direction of the village of Nakhichevanik, which during that period had been under control of the Armenians’ Askeran battalion.… When I was in Askeran [in Nagorno Karabakh], I spoke to the deputy head of the administration of Askeran Slavik Arushanyan and compared his recollection of the events with that of the Khojaly inhabitants who came under fire from the Azerbaijani side. I asked S. Arushanyan to show me the corridor which the Khojaly inhabitants had used [to abandon the town]. Having familiarised myself with the geographical area, I can say, fully convinced, that the conjectures that there had been no Armenian corridor are groundless. The corridor indeed existed, otherwise the Khojaly inhabitants, fully surrounded [by the enemy troops] and isolated from the outside world, would not have been able to force their way out and escape the encirclement. However, having crossed the area behind the Kar-Kar River, the row of refugees was separated and, for some reason, a part of [them] headed in the direction of Nakhichevanik. It appears that the NFA battalions strived not for the liberation of the Khojaly civilians but for more bloodshed on their way to overthrow A. Mutalibov [the first President of Azerbaijan]… ” In separate statements he wrote: “ I have visited this town [Naftalan] where I have spoken to hundreds (I repeat, hundreds) of refugees who insisted that there had been a corridor and that they had remained alive owing to this corridor … But a part of the Khojaly inhabitants had been fired upon by our own [troops]… not by [some] mysterious [shooters], but by provocateurs from the NFA battalions …[The corpses] had been mutilated by our own [soldiers]… |
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Still the turco/azeri silence is deafening.....
Obviously they read something here they didn't like: THE TRUTH |
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Keep posting funny statements made by bunch of craps/rubbish people so-called Azeris with armenoid blood!!! who is E.Fatullayev ? another traitor, struggling for power, trying to grab something from government by publishing these type of statements...and where he mentioned this? can you give a link? |
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