"When I and Khachatur entered the house, our soldiers had nailed a 13-year-old Turkish child to the window.He was making much noise so Khachatur put mother's cut breast into his mouth. I skinned his chest and belly. Seven minutes later the child died. As I used to be a doctor I was humanist and didn't consider myself happy for what I had done to a 13-year-old Turkish child. But my soul was proud for taking 1 percent of vengeance of my nation. Then Khachatur cut the body into pieces and threw it to a dog of same origin with Turks. I did the same to three Turkish children in the evening. I did my duty as an Armenian patriot. Khachatur had sweated much. But I saw struggle of revenge and great humanism in his and other soldiers' eyes. The next day we went to the church to clear our souls from what done previous day. But we were table to clear Khojali from slops of 30 thousand people. This text is from Zori Balayan’s book “Revival of our souls” from 1996 , pages 260-262. This paragraph is the most disgusting thing I have ever read. I haven’t even heard of an Armenian response to this paragraph. A nation proud of a massacre is joyfully dropping a note to the history! And then we see the Armenian representatives lecturing in America and Europe about humanity, human rights, genocide. And policy makers are applauding. Not even one of them dare to ask the question “What has happened in Khojali?”, “Why are you still occupying your neighbour’s land?” .Yet, poor Armenian policy makers are expressing their security concerns about Turkey. If it is just to pressurize Turks more, then humanity is nothing but a lip service. If humanity is degraded to a lip service, and eyes are closed to what has happened in Khojali, how come we believe that Armenian lobby is true in its aims about human history, human rights and other humanized terms that they recklessly waste to gain political power. Cutting his mother’s breast, silencing the boy by stuffing the cut breast into boy’s mouth and skinning the boy alive! And yes, honourable men and women in Capitol Hill. Raise your fingers to award the worst criminals of the near history. Do not even mention Khojali. Do not think of the brutually murdered thousands! Now you may be thinking that, the title is irrelevant to the content. After thinking about Khojali and an Armenia occupying its neighbour’s land, how sincere do you think the Armenians are? With the blood of Khojali on their hands, they are forcing politicians to accept Turkey to EU if Turkey accepts Armenian claims. No, Armenians should first accept Khojali and then they should start spelling Ottoman Armenians. There is no sincerety in any of the Armenian claims. Now, ask yourselves another question. Who will gain most from the Armenian lobby’s pressure on Capitol Hill. United States or Putin’s Russia? May be this is just like an ordinary debate for American readers. But for Turkish people the debate is very emotional and politicising such a debate will not help. Turkish people always showed their good intentions for historians to decide on this. Very understandably(!), Armenia rejects to discuss the issue with Turk ish historians. I believe what we will read 3 months later will be a comment of an analyst from an institute in Washington claiming how the religious groups are affecting Turkish American relations and rising anti-Americanism in Turkey, but no mentioning of the current Armenian provocation’s results on Turkish public. Then US will think that the problem in Turkish-American relations are because of a political party and eventually she will act wrongfully. After 9/11, Americans became more paranoid. Years ago, when I first wrote about US’s failures to understand Iraq, I was accused and blamed for being Anti-American. But what I claimed has turned out to be true. Because it was obvious. And it is obvious in this case again. The Armenian lobby’s favour to Russia is very clear. America is losing one of the most important allies in the Middle East. Not only the stability in Iraq will be risked by such an act, but also the security questions related to Georgia, Iran, Syria and Central Asia will be at stake. A Turkish public deceived by Washington will be very hard to persuade for supporting US policies. And this will be a wonderful opportunity for Russia to increase its power and cooperation with Azerbaijan and Turkey. What is the US’s interest in this? Just answer one question, for whom the Armenians of the Khojali are lobbying for in Capitol Hill?
نسل کشی مردم آذربایجان توسط گروه های تروریست داشناک ارمنی
Crimes against humanity
Karabag Soykirimi
الإبادة الجماعیةکاراباخ
רצח קרבאך
Карабахская геноцид
Καραμπάχ γενοκτονία
Khojaly Tragedy - 1 (8,12Mb)
Khojaly Tragedy - 2 (12,4Mb)
Khojaly Tragedy - 3 (12,2Mb)
Khojaly Tragedy - 4 (28,5Mb)
nettoyage ethnique
etnisk rensning
этническая чистка
Blood flowing as a river
There is ongoing war in Azerbaijan… No, this is not a war, this is a mass killing!… This is not a war, but this is a blood bath, gruesome bloodshed!… The war has laws or rules of its own… Such violence is not used against women, children or invalids!… Men are captured by an enemy in war, but women or girls are not!… Such brutality cannot be applied to prisoners in war!… That is not called a war if someone breaks into your territory to occupy it. It is called a banditry and a plundering… It is cruelty to slaughter all fellow men to defend their motherland by the way of Russian 366 motorized regiment… This is unpardonable crime of Armenian bandits!
No. This is not a war. It is called a massacre, a blood bath!… This is a tragedy of forgotten land!… This is a genocide perpetrated by violent Armenian blood thirstier!…
This is not a war!… It is organized bandits and extermination!… That is called as a genocide of one nation!…
This genocide is appealing us to vengeance! And that must be done until the blood of genocide victims will be subdued. Till the end of that vengeance, peace is not possible!…
Armenian speculations on the case of investigation of Khojaly tragedy.
The history is teaching us the real lessons of human mankind. Today we are celebrating the tenth anniversary of Khojaly tragedy perpetrated by Armenians on February 25-26, 1992. Khojaly tragedy is enshrined at the memory of our history by a bloody line. The Republic of Azerbaijan has done a lot for the dissemination of the historical truth on Armenian crimes. Azerbaijani nation today remembers how it was painful for those who saved their lives from the hand of Armenian criminals.
Now Armenian propaganda is trying to speculate with the reasons of occurred tragedy. It seems that Armenians feel that justice will be brought to them and Armenian State has taken a strategic line known to every Armenian propaganda machine.
Today’s Armenian strategic line and its description
1. First of all, they say that military attack of “the armed forces of self-defense of Nagorno-Karabakh” have decided to leave a humanitarian corridor in one unique direction for civilians of Khojaly city. Those wanted to be “humanists” to create a possibility for civilians to avoid the results of military operation.
2. They claim that the attack of Khojaly was necessary because of security for “Stepanakert” (this name of city is used by Armenians instead of Azerbaijani original name Khankendi). They claim to be only attackers. So, Armenian pretended to be alone in military operations.
3. Armenians explain the mass slaughter of civilians of Khojaly as “bad doings” of Azerbaijani armed forces or People’s Fronts’ activists in order to satisfy the inner political interests of political power.
4. The late Chingiz Fuad Mustafayev, cameraman-hero, son of Azerbaijani nation and his awful film about the victims of Khojaly are explained by Armenian propaganda that they were killed as a result of military operation. Then Mustafayev has arrived to shoot a film in place. Before his arrival all dead bodies were humiliated and scalped by Azerbaijanis themselves.
5. Armenian tell-tale about Mutalibov. In that moment Mutalibov has give “confession” that if People’s Front of Azerbaijan would abide to sign an agreement to place Azerbaijani army under the control of the CIS chief military headquarters, the situation could be different at all. (“Azg” Armenian newspaper. February 20, 2002)
6. Armenians say that Azerbaijanis are “playing” with statistical data on victims. Sometimes they count 600, 800, 1500 or 3000… Instead the “armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh” have counted only 11 victims and two children among them.
The Armenian strategic point of view on Khojaly tragedy is well explained in the lines above. They use same wording in their official and non-official policy, newspapers, television and radio. On the eve of tenth anniversary the Armenian mass-media is full of articles with the same explanation. It is quite clear to state that Republic of Armenia has drafted a very “non-smart” policy paper. The leadership of the Republic of Armenia is trying to hide a crime of Khojaly tragedy. It is quite clear that this historical truth is known to Armenian people. This crime of Armenian leadership will find an appropriate political judgment.
What kind of policy should be applied to break down such ridiculous “non-smart” policy paper?
The Republic of Azerbaijan has really strengthened its positions in the world during last decade of its own national independence. All Azerbaijani society is quite seriously involved in dissemination of information of “this Christian terrorist state” as it has been said by Samuel Weems.
There are real achievements on the information battlefield. If we shall analyze the first days of independence, we can surely say that the paradigm of “Armenian always crying victim-nation” was firmly ruling everywhere. The world is changing. The Republic of Azerbaijan is living its very best days of its independence. Young generations become more active in bringing justice to worldwide Armenian falsities. Since recent times, Armenians understand that the game is lost. They are facing to the real resistance from the part of Azerbaijani information forces. That is proved in the following lines:
1. As it was repeatedly stated by foreign journalists and not only by Azerbaijani side, “the humanitarian corridor” used by Armenians as a bloody trap for Khojaly survivors. They surrounded Khojaly city from four directions: North-South-West-East. It has been adviced by Russian 366 motorised regiment specialists. Armenian barbarity has decided to let the civilians to run in that bloody trap towards Agdam. All the world knows that Khojaly city was completely isolated from the rest of Azerbaijan a long time before Armenian invasion. In that awful night Armenians thanked Russian military for the help and then they have gone to celebrate their victory over Khojaly with a fresh human blood. As you know, all heroes-defenders of Khojaly were dead in defending city. And Armenians entered into city without a shed blood. Armenian vandalism reported to the international community was explained that they scalped and humiliated dead bodies of children, women and old persons.
2. All know that Armenians have conquered Khojaly city with the military support of Russian troops, which were forgotten by Russia. The only airport in Nagorno Karabakh was located near Khojaly. That is why it was so important for Armenians.
3. People’s Front of Azerbaijan was a movement for national liberation of Azerbaijan. Do not forget that it was not a political party in that time. So many internal political forces were represented in that movement called People’s Front of Azerbaijan. It is obvious that Ayaz Mutalibov was holding power as a President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. People’s Front of Azerbaijan has no any weapons or hand grenades, but their open hearts to fight for the sake of beloved nation. So, I ask every man - How could an activist of People’s Front of Azerbaijan scalp a dead body of Azerbaijani child? We address to the Armenian propaganda: “Where is logic?”
4. If you have already watched that awful film of Chingiz Mustafayev, you can hear him crying. That was quite understandable to everyone. Then, an Azerbaijani soldier who helps to collect dead bodies says: “Hey man. Stop shooting. This area is under control of Armenians.” It was an island in occupied by Armenians zone. Why we call Chingiz as a hero? He decided to go in that occupied zone in order to shoot the barbarity of Armenians.
5. In that time Mutalibov was not really able to influence all those criminal cases committed by Armenians. Today’s late “comments” or “confession” (word liked by Armenian press) are nothing but to find out grounds for his political behavior in that time.
6. All nations know that it is practically not possible to count the victims after first days of any conflict or war. Even today Azerbaijani side is trying to count all the victims. As you know that the exact figures are not known to our nation because of aggression of Armenian against Azerbaijan.
Recently, the recognition of Khojaly tragedy perpetrated by Armenians has come from a part of an Armenian journalist living in Beirut, Lebanon. Rovshan Novruzoglu, political analyst has conducted an investigation for studying the Khojaly tragedy. He says that the book recently published by “Ash-Sharg” (East) agency in Beirut has shed a light to those bloody events. The name of that book is “For the sake of Cross…”. The author is Daud Kheyriyan has devoted the pages 19-76 of that book to the Khojaly events.
>" href="http://www.khojaly.net/eyew.html" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; text-indent: 25px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.8em; ">Daud Kheyriyan, “For the sake of Cross…”, page 24:
>" href="http://www.khojaly.net/eyew.html" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; text-indent: 25px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.8em; ">“… Sometimes we happened to march on dead bodies. In order to cross a swamp near Dashbulag, we have paved a road composed of dead bodies. I refused to march on dead bodies. Then colonel Oganyan ordered me not to scare. It is one of military laws. I have pressed my one foot onto the breast of a wounded girl aged 9 or 10 years and marched…
>" href="http://www.khojaly.net/eyew.html" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; text-indent: 25px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.8em; ">My legs, my photo camera were in blood…”
>" href="http://www.khojaly.net/eyew.html" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; text-indent: 25px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.8em; ">Daud Kheyriyan, “For the sake of Cross…”, page 62 and 63:
>" href="http://www.khojaly.net/eyew.html" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; text-indent: 25px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.8em; ">“… the Armenian group “Gaflan” (dealing with burning of dead bodies) have collected 100 dead bodies of Turks (Azerbaijani) and burned them in a place located one kilometer from Khojaly to the West on March 2… I saw girl aged 10 and wounded in hands and in head lying in last truck. Her face was already of a blue color. But she was still alive despite of hunger, coldness and wounds. She had a little breath. I cannot forget her eyes striving with death… Suddenly a soldier called Tigranyan took that body and thrown it on other dead bodies… Then they have burned dead bodies. It seemed to me that someone was crying in fire between dead bodies… After all I could not go further. But I wanted to see Shusha… I returned. And they continued their battles for the sake of Cross….”
>" href="http://www.khojaly.net/eyew.html" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; text-indent: 25px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.8em; ">So far the international mass media has told about the Khojaly tragedy in more open way. The truth was reported to international community. It is probable that this Khojaly tragedy will never be forgotten by all mankind.
Sahil Information and Research Center
Baku/Azerbaijan
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RESOLUTION OF MILLI MAJLIS (NATIONAL ASSEMBLY) OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN On the Day of Khojaly Genocide
Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan discussed suggestion of the Milli Majlis’s commission on relations with refugees and compatriots living abroad on Khojaly genocide implemented by Armenian aggressors resolves:
1. Every year on February 26 to commemorate Khojaly events of February 26 1992 organized by Armenian aggressors and became the tragedy of the Azerbaijani people and bloody page in the history of humanity as the “Day of Khojaly genocide” and inform the international organizations about it.
2. With the purpose to inform of truth on Khojaly events to the peoples of the world and to commemorate the “Day of Khojaly genocide” on the international scale to appeal to the Azerbaijanis to the world.
Baku city, February 24, 1994
Appeal to the all Azerbaijanis of the world
Dear compatriots, countrymen!
The war has been waged on the land of Azerbaijan - the sacred Motherland of our ancestors, on the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan already for 6 years. Aggressive armed forces of the Republic of Armenia, beguiling the mind of Armenian people by dreams about “Great Armenia”, with open and latent assistance of some countries occupied 12 districts of our country. The enemy destroys our villages and cities, commits inconceivable crimes and brutality on our lands, which have no precedent in the history of humanity. Khojaly genocide is irrefutable evidence of this.
The terrible tragedy of Khojaly city and its inhabitants took place on February 26 1992 is the most shocking event of the XXth century witness of which became the humanity. This brutality was implemented by Armenian fascists with assistance of infantry guards regiment No 366 of former Soviet Army. That day hangmen pitiless killed defenseless peaceful civilians - the elders, women, children and dumb babies. Armenian fascists scalped the heads of dead people, put out their eyes, cut off various parts of their bodies, buried the live people, and burnt out them. By such actions they showed that they deserve hatred of all people irrespective of their faith, nationality, race.
The tragedy took place in Khojaly on February 26 1992 is the genocide against our nation. 335 people of 5 thousand of peaceful population of the city became the shehids (martyrs), 6 families were killed completely, 421 people were wounded, 150 were missing and taken as hostages, 25 children became the orphan lost both parents, 130 children lost one of their parents. Khojaly city was plundered and burnt, 3 schools, a hospital, 3 aid posts, 3 clubs, 3 kindergartens and other buildings were entirely destroyed. As a result of Khojaly city destroying the damage worth multi-billions rubles was done to the state and personal property of the citizens.
The second anniversary of the tragedy in Khojaly will be commemorate on the state level this year, our people commemorates this date with sorrow. Milli Majlis (National Assembly) of the Republic of Azerbaijan adopted resolution on declaration of February 26 as “The Day of Khojaly genocide” that henceforth will commemorate every year.
By this appeal addressing to all Azerbaijanis of the world Milli Majlis of the Republic calls all our compatriots, countrymen united by one Motherland - Azerbaijan to commemorate February 26 as “The day of Khojaly genocide”. Milli Majlis is confident that Azerbaijanis of the world support this appeal, use all opportunities to inform the public of the countries where they live about those terrors that Armenian occupants implemented against our people during their aggressive war against Azerbaijan, and in that way they join to our struggle for liberation of our native lands from enemy.
Adopted by Milli Majlis
of the Republic of Azerbaijan
on February 24, 1994
برای اکثر کسانی که حداقل مطالعه ای در تاریخ فرهنگ ایران داشته باشند نام «کسروی» آشناست ! کسروی روزگاری به شدت مبلغ پاک دینی بوده نا گزیر کتابی بنام «ورجاوند بنیاد»(اصول مقدسه )را برای بیان افکار انحرافی خود یا به عبارتی جهت تبلیغ دین پاک،نژاد پاک،زبان پاک(لابد در مقابل دینها و نژاد ها و زبانهایی ناپاک دیگر)می آورد و بارها ادعای برانگیختگی (بعثت) می نماید (1) و به زعم خود پیامبر بوده است(2)شاید ذکر اینکه کسروی دیوان خواجه حافظ شیرازی و گلستان سعدی را با گیره!! (نه با دست .بخاطر نجاست !) در سخنرانیهای خود در آتش می انداخت خالی از لطف نباشد. حمایت رژیم وقت (پهلوی) از او باعث شد تا افکار و عقایدش به صورت گسترده منتشر شود. طی هفت دهه اخیر متاسفانه به لحاظ وجود افکار شوونیستی و اجرای سیاست های نژاد پرستانه رژیم پهلوی هزینه های فراوانی جهت اضمحلال و نابودی فرهنگ های غیر حاکم در ایران صرف گشته است از مهمترین اهداف شوونیستها تحریف تاریخ ترکهای ایران و از بین بردن زبان و فرهنگ و رسوم ملی و سنتی این ملت بوده است.
شوونیسیتها به وقت تحقیر و استهزاء ترکها ،آنهارا« ترک خر» خوانده و به وقت ایجاب مصالح و منافع نژادپرستانه « آذری» نامیده اند . نگارنده در این بحث تنها با استناد به اسناد و کتیبه های باستانی ( و نه نظرات شخصی ) به بررسی اجمالی دو کلمه ترکی و آذری می پردازد .
ترکهای ایران و واژه ترک در اسناد و کتیبه های تاریخی : قدیمی ترین آثار و کتیبه هایی که در آن از اقوام ترک پیرامون دریاچه اورمیه نام برده شده کتیبه های آشوری و سپس اورارتویی است بنا به نوشته « یامپولسکی » در کتیبه های آشوری سده چهارده قبل از میلاد (3500 سال پیش )از ترکها با نام « توروک» یاد شده و موطن اصلی آنان مناطق پیرامون دریاچه اورمیه ذکر شده است (3). البته این اسناد نتیجه کاوشهای باستانی تا چند سال اخیر بوده و یافته های باستان شناسی در آینده و قرائت حدود 10000 لو حه ایلامی و سومری که در دانشگاه « شیکاگو» انبار شده (4)پرده از تاریخ بر خواهد داشت .قرابت و هم ریشه بودن زبان ترکها و سو مری ها این احتمال را به یقین مبدل می سازد کلمه ترک در منابع تاریخی به اشکال مختلف آمده از جمله در آثار«هرودوت»، « تارگیتا » در منابع علمی « تورخا » و منابع چینی «توکوئه» و «تورکیش»(5) و در تورات از «یافث بن نوح» به عنوان پدر اتراک نام برده شده است نیز در منابع یونانی از قبایل تورک زبان سابیرها .کنگرلو ها ،هونها ،سکا هاو… به عنوان ساکنان غربی دریاچه خزر نام برده شده است .
2-کلمه »آذری»: از ابداعات کسروی می باشد که فقط جهت تحریف تاریخ و تامین منافع حاکمیت وقت بوده است و این کلمه از سوی شوونیستها به عنوان حربه ای برای انکار تاریخ ترکها در آذربایجان بکار رفته است . شاید جالب باشد که هم زمان» استا لین » نیز از این ابداع کسروی کمال استفاده را برده است و با تغییر کلمه »ترک » از عنوان ملیت به »آذری » در گذر نامه های آذربایجانیهای شوروی سابق ،سعی درانکار یکی بودن آنان با همسا یه های ترک برای حفظ حاکمیت استبدادی خود و جلو گیری از بروز هر گونه اتحاد یا ارتباط فرهنگی داشته باشد .
تا به حال در هیچ کتیبه یا سند تاریخی به کلمه آذری آنهم به عنوان تبار و زبان یک ملت برخورد نشده و هیچ کدام از مدافعان نظریه کسروی در این خصوص هیچ مدرک تاریخی ارائه نداده اند .
البته شاید استناد کسروی در انتخاب این کلمه (بنا به گفته حسینقلی کاتبی ) برخی منابع عربی بوده است ولی چنانکه خود پیروان کسروی مانند کاتبی هم معترفند لفظ « آذری » فقط از سده های سوم تا ششم هجری در منا بع عربی ذکر شده است پس قبل از آن تاریخ صحبتی از آذری به عنوان تبار و زبان قوم نبوده و در منا بع عربی هم این کلمه نه به مفهوم تبار و زبان یک قوم بلکه به عنوان کوتاه شده کلمه »آذربایجان » مورد استفاده قرار گرفته است . عدم وجود اسناد تاریخی باعث توهم کسروی و پیروانش شده و گاه شلم شوربایی ساخته اند که خود نیز در کار خویش مانده اند . اینان گاه سلجو قیان ،گاه غزنویان و مغولها و گاه صفویان را موجب ترک شدن ترکهای آذربایجانی می دانند! اما هر کس کمترین اطلاعی از تاریخ داشته باشد به خوبی می داند که مغولها از چین تا غرب افریقا و از سیبر ی تا اقیانوس هند را تصرف کرده بودند و تمام و آسیای میانه و ایران تحت سلطه خانهای مغول بود(6) پس چرا مردم این مناطق را نتوانسته اند ترک کنند ؟!! طبق آخرین آمارها در حال حاضر 270 میلیون نفر ترک زبان در وسعتی حدود20 میلیون کیلو متر مربع از جنوب سیبری و قلب بالکان تا شمال افغانستان و ایران و اناتولی زندگی می کنند و زبان ترکی از لحاظ تعداد و جمعیت پنجمین زبان دنیا و زبان اول جهان اسلام می باشد. در پایان امیدوارم دوستان عزیز برای حمل کلمه روشنکر متحمل حداقل زحمت شده و با آگاهی و مطالعه مختصر در هر زمینه ای که به خود حق اظهار نظر می دهند ، چه سیاسی و فرهنگی و چه دینی و اجتماعی نا خواسته پیرو مکتب افردی چون کسروی نشوند .
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Armenians killed 1000, Azeris charge.
THE BOSTON GLOBE March 3, 1992
By Paul Quinn-Judge
(Front page headline)
BAKU, Azerbaijan-Azerbaijan charged yesterday that Armenian militants massacred men, women and children after forcing them from a town in Nagorno-Karabagh last week.
Azerbaijani officials said 1000 Azeris had been killed in town of Khojaly and that Armenian fighters then slaughtered men, women and children fleeing across snow-covered mountain passes.
Armenian officials disputed the death toll and denied the massacre report.
Journalists on the scene said it was difficult to say exactly how many people had been killed in surrounding areas. But a Reuters photographer said he saw two trucks filled with Azeri corpses, and a Russian journalist reported massacre sites elsewhere in the area.
Azeri officials and journalists who flew briefly to the region by helicopter recovered the bodies of three dead children who had been shot in the head, Reuters said, but Armenians prevented them from retrieving more bodies.
In the Azerbaijani capital of Baku,government officials said that communications with Shusha,the last Azeri foothold in Nagorno-Karabagh,were cut yesterday morning. The militant Azerbaijani Popular Front reported that Armenian troops backed by armor and artillery were moving closer to town.
Shusha was shelled again overnight,according to accounts reaching Baku yesterday.
Fighting over the enclave, administered by Azerbaijan but largely populated by ethnic Armenians, has flared into a full scale war over the last month.
In the four years up to this January, some 1000 people are believed to have been killed in the con- flict. Although figures are extremely unreliable, at least several hundreeds people have probably died in the past four weeks.
The Azerbaijani Popular Front has been predicting an attack on Shusha for the last two days. But information on the fighting inside the enclave cannot be confirmed independently.
Officials of both the Azerbaijani government and the Popular Front claim that the final attack on Shusha could be triggered by the withdrawal of the last units of the former Soviet army stationed in Nagorno-Karabagh, the 366th Regiment.
The withdrawal began yesterday, said General Nikolai Popov, commander of the Baku-based 4th Army, in a brief phone interview yesterday.
The Azerbaijan presidential press service, quoting the republic's Ministry of National Security, claimed that commonwealth troops were going to move out through Shusha, destroying the town's defences as they did so.
Popov said he did not know if the regiment would leave through Shusha. Asked who might know this, he answered, "No one's going to tell you." Commonwealth airborne units reportedly have been moved into Nagorno- Karabagh to cover regiment's withdrawal.
Officials in Moscow and Armenia said that the 366th Regiment, based in the regional center of Stepanakert [Hankendi -- Ed.], has been strictly neutral in the fighting.
Azeri sources, however, claim that the 366th has swung actively on the side of Armenians,notably in the capture of last week of the small town of Khojaly, on the road between Stepanakert [Hankendi -- Ed.] and Agdam.
There were growing signs that many civilians were killed during the capture of Khojaly.
Footage shot by Azerbaijan Television Sunday showed about 10 dead bodies, including several women and children, in an improvised morgue in Agdam. An editor at the main television station in Baku said 180 bodies had been recovered so far. A helicopter flying over the vicinity is reported to have seen other corpses, while the BBC quoted a French photographer who said that he had counted 31 dead, including women and children, some who appeared as though they were shot in the head at close range.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Khojaly, Elmar Mamedov, said at a news conference in Baku that 1000 people had died in the attack, 200 more were missing, 300 had been taken hostage, and 200 were injured. Armored personel carriers of the 366th [Regiment -- Ed.] spearheaded the attack, Mamedov charged, and cleared the way for Armenian irregulars.
If Shusha does indeed fall, its loss could send shock waves through Azerbaijani society.
Unutmadık!!!....
Dağlık Karabağ bölgesinde 26 Şubat 1992’de neler olmuştu?...
Ermenistan’ın işgali altında bulunan Dağlık Karabağ bölgesinde 26 Şubat 1992’de neler olmuştu?... Azeriler tarafından ‘Kafkasların Milosevic’i; Ermeniler tarafından ‘Karabağ Kahramanı’ olarak nitelenen günümüzün Ermenistan Devlet Başkanı Robert Koçaryan’ın direktifleriyle Ermeni silahlı güçleri tarafından, hem de uluslarası basının gözleri önünde Hocalı’da gerçekleşen ‘Azeri Soykırımı’nı
Lies!
Link is Armenian1. "Nezavisimaya gazeta" newspaper, February 1993
2. "Ogonek" magazine, Nos. 14-15, 1992
3. "Nezavisimaya gazeta" newspaper, 2 April 1992
4. "Novoye vremya" magazine, 6 March 2001
5. "Zerkalo" newspaper, July 1992
6. "Mukhalifat" newspaper, 28 April 1992
7. "Megapolis-Express", No. 17, 1992 
Evidence from Azerbaijani sources
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 death of civilians, were the results solely of political intrigues and a struggle for power in Azerbaijan.
The real reasons are most convincingly reflected in the accounts of Azerbaijanis themselves - as participants in and eyewitnesses of what happened - as well as of those who know the whole inside story of the events in Baku.
According to Azerbaijani journalist M. Safarogly, "Khojaly occupied an important strategic position. The loss of Khojaly was a political fiasco for Mutalibov". 1
Khojaly, along with Shushi and Agdam, was one of the main strongholds from which Stepanakert, the capital of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, was shelled continuously and mercilessly for three winter months using artillery and missiles and launchers for targeting cities.armenia map
Knocking out the weapon emplacements in Khojaly and freeing the airport were the only way for the inhabitants of the Nagorno Karabakh 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 peaceful inhabitants - women, children and old people.
Former President of Azerbaijan, Ayaz Mutalibov, has emphasized that "… the assault on Khojaly was not a surprise attack"2. In a "Nezavisimaya gazeta" newspaper interview he stated that "a corridor was kept open by the Armenians for people to leave"3. However, a column of civilians was fired on by armed units of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan on the approaches to the Agdam district border, a fact later confirmed by Ayaz Mutalibov, who linked this criminal act to attempts by the opposition to remove him from power, and blamed it entirely for what happened.In his recent interview with the "Novoye vremya" magazine, Mutalibov confirms his statement of nine year ago: "The shooting of the Khojaly residents was obviously organized by someone to take control in Azerbaijan"4.
Similar comments and views concerning the events in Khojaly are known to have been made by several other highly-placed Azerbaijani officials and journalists.
There is, moreover, the conclusion of Azerbaijani journalist Arif Yunusov, which differs somewhat from the previous statements: "The town and its inhabitants were deliberately sacrificed for a political purpose - to prevent the Popular Front of Azerbaijan from coming to power"5. In this case, though, the Azerbaijanis themselves are named as the perpetrators of the tragedy.
What resulted from the betrayal of the inhabitants of Khojaly by their own highly placed compatriots is well known. Azerbaijani propaganda has railed to the whole world about the "atrocities of the Armenians", supplying television stations with horrendous pictures of a field strewn with mutilated bodies. Khojaly is claimed to have been the "Armenians' revenge for Sumgait".
Tamerlan Karayev, at one time Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Azerbaijan Republic, bears witness: "The tragedy was committed by the authorities of Azerbaijan", and specifically by "someone highly placed"6.
The Czech journalist Jana Mazalova, who by an oversight of the Azerbaijanis was included in both of the groups of press representatives to be shown the "bodies mutilated by the Armenians", noted a substantial difference in the two cases. 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 already "prepared" for pictures.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 Agdam - on territory fully controlled by the Popular Front of Azerbaijan?
The independent Azerbaijani cameraman Chingiz Mustafayev, who took pictures on 28 February and 2 March 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 nor far from Agdam, under circumstances that are still unexplained.
The current President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, himself recognized that Azetbaijan's "former leadership was also guilty" of events in Khojaly. Already in April 1992, according to the agency Bilik-Dunyasy, he had commented as follows: "The bloodshed will be to our advantage. We should not interfere in the course of events". To whose "advantage" was the bloodshed is clear to everyone. "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"7.
One other tragic detail. It has become clear since the events that 47 Armenian hostages were already being held on 26 February in "peaceful" Khojaly, a fact that the Azerbaijani mass media "covering" the tragedy have failed to mention. After the liberation of Khojaly only 13 hostages (including 6 woman and 1 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 Agdam. There is still no information concerning what eventually happened to them or confirming that they continued to be held captive by the Azerbaijanis.
Obviously, those who wanted to create the impression that bodies had been mutilated by the Armenians first of all disfigured the bodies of those same Armenian hostages, in order to make it impossible to identify them. Precisely for that purpose the outer clothing was removed from many of the bodies and precisely for that reason the bodies of the unfortunate victims were damaged so badly that they became unrecognizable.
In the light of the above facts it may confidently be said that the killing of 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 intrigues and the struggle for power.
http://www.nkrusa.org/nk_conflict/khojaly.shtml
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Armenia: The Great Deception Secrets of a Christian Terrorist State - Samuel A. Weems
SOURCE: http://www.scribd.com/doc/9379570/Ar...errorist-State
This is a non-Turkish Source
The Genocides and Emigration Azerbaijan Faced
More than 20% of Azerbaijan’s territories were occupied and more than one million people had to live with immigrant status during the Azerbaijan – Armenian War which started in 1988. More than one million people in Azerbaijan, a country with population of eight million, are in the status of immigrant. In other words, one person in every eight people is an immigrant in Azerbaijan. According to the figures regarding to the division of the immigrant population to the total population, Azerbaijan is the country which hosts the most immigrants in its own territory. %20 of Azerbaijan’s territories was occupied by the Armenians and %13 of the population has to live with the immigrant status within their historical homeland.
The first planned emigration and genocide against Azerbaijani Turks took place during 1905-1907 by Armenians in order to establish the “Great Armenia”. Afterwards, during 1918-1920 Azerbaijani Turks had to move from their territories by force for the second time. During the USSR era, in 1948-1953, approximately 150 thousand Azerbaijani Turks living in Armenia faced “great migration” and had to leave their homeland for the third time. The last emigration and genocide took place in front of the modern world, starting from the 1988 fights.
The problem of Nagorno Karabakh which turned into an armed conflict in 1988, extended outside the boundaries of the region. Gained victories allowed Armenians to enter into the deeper regions of Azerbaijan. Consequently, 20% of the Azerbaijani territory is occupied by the Armenian Armed Forces. During this occupation more than 20 thousand Azerbaijani citizens were killed. (Some writers, regarding to this issue, state that during 1988-1994 more than 35 thousand people died from both sides) More than 20 thousand people were injured, 50 thousand people has been disabled and 5101 Azerbaijani Turks were lost or/and captured. 66% of the captured Azerbaijani Turks is children. As one or more members from the Azerbaijani families died during the war, 7737 families received “martyr family” status. 1/3 of the Azerbaijani population was affected from the Nagorno Karabakh problem directly or indirectly. Because of the social, economic and political problems caused by the Nagorno Karabakh problem, citizens all over the country are affected.
Cost of the War
Armenian occupation in Azerbaijan resulted with a significant amount of economic loss which is calculated as 60 billion dollars. Because of this loss, in this specific region of Azerbaijan, approximately 7000 establishments including industrial and agricultural establishments were closed. These establishments were providing the 24% of the grain revenues, 41% of the alcohol production, 46% of the potato growth, 18% of the meat production and 34% of the milk production of the country’s economy. In addition, 616 schools, 242 nurseries, 683 libraries, more than 464 historical monuments and museums, 695 hospitals, clinics and health care centers, 724 residential villages have been occupied in the region. Besides from the occupation of this region, country’s ecological system is also significantly damaged and forests in the region were destroyed.
In 1988, Azerbaijan-Armenian problem turned into an armed conflict and after a short period, this armed conflict resulted with a regional war among these two countries. During this war, Armenian armed forces occupied 20% of the Azerbaijani territory including 890 rayons, villages, towns and settlements and the complete Nagorno Karabakh starting from 1988 until May, 12 1994, the day of the cease-fire. In Nagorno Karabakh, Azerbaijanis inhabited 2 cities, 1 village and 53 towns.
Armenian Armed Forces occupied;
Esregan-Hadrut in 1991,
Hocavend in February 18, 1992,
Hocali in February 25, 1992,
Şuşa in February 26, 1992,
Laçin in May 18, 1992,
Kelbecer in April 4, 1993,
Ağdam in July 23, 1993,
Fuzuli in August 24, 1993,
Zengilan in October 27, 1993,
Cebrayil in August 26, 1993,
Gubadlı in August 31, 1993.
Among the occupied territories, as a total of 676000 individuals; 192300 individuals from the Upper Karabakh with a total land area of 4388 km2, 59200 individuals from the Lacin (1835 km2), 29.500 individuals from the Şuşa (970 km2), 50500 individuals from the Kelbecer (1936 km2), 158.000 individuals from Ağdam (1093 km2), 100000 individuals from the Fuzuli (1386 km2), 51600 individuals from the Cebrayil (1059 km2), 30300 individuals from the Gubatlı (802 km2) and 33900 individuals from the Zengilan settlements had to leave their homelands and live in tents in the inner parts of Azerbaijan.
Historical monuments were destroyed, nature and environment was destroyed in the occupied Nagorno Karabakh and the cities around it. Significant damage was given to the environment and the civilian life during the Nagorno Karabakh war. However, the incidents happened in the Hocali village during the war cannot even fit into the definition of war and can be considered as a genocide.
Hocali town, one of the most important hills of the Upper Karabakh region, was a strategic military target for the Armenian Armed Forces. Strategically, Hocali was settled on the Ağdam-Şuşa, Eskeran-Hankendi routes on the Karabakh Mountain ranges. Geo-strategic position of the Hocali was suitable for the Armenian Armed Forces to attack here. Hocali is located 10 km southeast of the Hankendi. The only airport in the Karabakh region is located in Hocali.
Hocali was under blockade starting from October 1991. On October 30, transportation by land was blocked and the only transportation vehicles left were the helicopters. The last helicopter landed Hocali on January 28, 1992. Following the death of 40 people because of the shot of the civil helicopters over Şuşe, this way of transportation was also blocked. Starting from the January 2, no electricity was given to the town. Starting from the second half of February, Armenian Armed Forces imposed a blockade to Hocali and each day they bombed the town with cannons and heavy machine guns.
Hocali, a town with 936 km2 land area and a population of 11356 consisting of 2605 families, exposed to the century’s most brutal genocide and the town has been completely destroyed. During this massacre, Hocali was not under the protection of Azerbaijani Armed Forces and the town was in a completely vulnerable situation. There were 150 person with small arms scattered around Hocali. For a long time, Azerbaijani Armed Forces were not able to help Hocali community, and it took even longer to remove the corpses.
Armenian Armed Forces surrounded the town from three directions. They bombed the town with the support of helicopters and heavy weapons. Afterwards, they entered the town for a massacre. Armenians wanted to give a message to the region people by occupying this town. Indeed, the given message was too crucial for the Azerbaijani Turks. With the occupation and almost destruction of the Hocali, disengagement in the region has accelerated. Besides, this move was considered as a major military success because of its strategic importance. However, the most brutal genocide of the history of the mankind took place. On the other hand, this incident was a revenge of the 1915 events they were claiming.
On the night of the 25th of February connecting to the 26th, after closing the entry and exit of the Hocali town with the support of 366th Regiment in the region, Armenian Armed Forces murdered 613 people according to the official figures without distinguishing civilians, women, children and elderly people. 83 of them were children, 106 of them were women and more than 7 of them were elderly people. Normally, even in the most intense wars, this group was held outside the war, but Armenians brutally tortured and murdered even the elderly, women and children. From this massacre a total of 487 seriously injured people were survived. 1275 people taken as hostages and 150 people were lost. Examination on the bodies proved that most of the bodies were burnt, eyes were cut out, body parts including the ears, noses and heads were cut off. Even the pregnant women and children faced the same violence.
- Krua l’Eveneman Magazine (Paris), February 25, 1992: The Armenians attacked Hocali. The whole world was witness to the bodies savagely murdered. Azeri are talking about the death of thousands.
- Sunday Times Newspaper (London), March 1, 1992: Armenian soldiers destroyed thousands of families.
- Financial Times Newspaper (London), March 9, 1992: Armenians shoot the army heading to Ağdam. Azeri counted approximately 1200 bodies. Lebanese cameraman confirmed that the wealthy Armenian Dashnak lobby sends weapons and troops to Karabakh.
- Times Newspaper (London), March 4, 1992: A lot of people have taken terrible conditions, an innocent girl’s head was left only.
- Izvestiya Newspaper (Moscow) March 4, 1992: The camera showed children whose ears were cut off. A woman’s face was cut in half. Men’s scalps were skinned.armenia map
- Le Monde Newspaper (Paris) March 14, 1992: The press on the Ağdam has seen women and children whose scalps were skinned among the murders in Hocali. They saw three people whose nails were removed.This is not an Azeri propaganda, this is a fact.
- İzvestiya Newspaper (Moscow) March 13, 1992: Major Leonid Kravets: “I was approximately one hundred corpses on the hill. One boy was headless. Everywhere was full of women, children and elderly who was tortured and murdered.”
- Valer Actuel Magazine (Paris) March 14, 1992: In this “autonomous region” Armenian Armed Forces had new technology and helicopters manufactured in the Near East. ASALA had military camps and weapon storages in Syria and Lebanon. Armenians attacked more than one hundred Muslim towns and murdered Azerbaijanis in Karabakh.
- R. Patrik, British Journalist (had been in the scene of crime): “The brutality in Hocali cannot be justified in the public!!!”
- Golos Ukraini: V Stacko: War has no face. There are only lots of masks, bloody tears, death, unhappiness, destruction. Why did they murder babies in Hocali, or the mothers? When the God wants to punish the people, he gets people’s mind.
- Nie Newspaper, Violetta Parvanova (Bulgaria): “Hocali is the tragedy of mankind.”
- March 3, 1992, BBC Morning News, 7.37 broadcast announced the situation as follows: “Our journalist mentioned he has seen more than 100 Azeri men, women and children, including the babies. They are murdered by close range head shot.”
- March 16, 1992, Newsweek, the article presented by Pascal Privat and Steve Le Vine: “Last week, Azerbaijan was again like a basement of a morgue; dozens of corpses brought to temporary morgue established in the back of a mosque, and mourning refugees. They were the Azeri residents of the Hocali town of Upper Karabakh, which is occupied by Armenian troops on February 25 and 26. Most of them were shot from close range while they were trying to escape, others had shattered faces, and some of them had skinned scalps and faces…”
- Human Rights Watch: Hocali massacre is characterized as the most comprehensive civilian slaughter since the occupation of Karabakh.
- American Journalist Thomas Goltz: “My photographer friend was so affected; I had to push him over the objects in order for him to take pictures. Bodies, graves; yes, they all required a stomach. But we had to tell the world what happened. We found the ones who are alive and immediately inscribed what they said. I tried to identify the bodies, but there were the ones who were shot in the face and cannot be recognized. Some of the bodies’ scalps were skinned.”
- Armenian Journalist who witnessed the Hocali massacre and later settled in Beirut, Daud Kheyriyan, From his book ‘For the Sake of the Cross’ (p. 62-63), describes the violence as follows: “…The Armenian group called Gaflan, which is responsible from burning of the dead, brought and pile up 100 Azeri bodies to 1 km west of Hocali on March 2. In the last truck, I saw a 10 year old girl. She was injured from her head and hands. Her face was livid. Despite the cold, hunger and injuries, she was still alive. She was breathing hardly. There was the fear of death in her eyes. At that moment, a soldier called Tigranyan held her and threw her on top of other bodies. Then they have burnt all the bodies. I thought I heard a screaming among the burning bodies. There was nothing I can do. I went back to Şuşa. They have continued fighting for the sake of the Cross.”
International Reactions
International organizations such as UN, EU did not show the necessary importance to this massacre which took place in front of the whole world. During April-November 1993, United Nations Security Council adopted 822, 853, 874 and 884 numbered decisions. These decisions stated that Azerbaijani territories are occupied by Armenians. So far, no effort was showed in order to end the occupation. European Council Parliamentary Assembly stated that Azerbaijani territories are still under Armenian occupation with its 1416 numbered decision on January 25, 2005. UN and Western countries stayed as audiences to the massacre and occupations of Armenians and they have not showed a significant reaction. Following the May 1992 attacks of Armenia to Naxcivan, Turkey mentioned that she can intervene in order to protect the region in accordance with the 1921 Kars Agreement.
On May 7, 2003, “Vatan” (Homeland) organization which represents the Azeri people living in England sent a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation Committee. According to the reply, British Government stated that they are analyzing the Hocali massacre multilaterally and they are considering the Armenian massacre as a “crime against humanity.”
Also, the USA Congress International Relations Commissioner Don Barton invited the Congress to recognize ‘Hocali genocide’. In his speech in the Representative Council he stated “All the nations in the world should know and remember this. By recognizing Hocali genocide, USA Congress will break the long silence of the international community on this issue.”
In 1994, a cease-fire was declared between the two sides.
To Accept Karabakh Massacre as Genocide
The massacre in the Upper Karabakh region of Azerbaijan on February 26, 1992, overlaps with the international community’s crime definition of the genocide and the definitions of crimes against humanity.
The things Armenians and their supporters who participated in the Hocali genocide did are a genocide which is against human rights, international law agreements including Geneva Convention, Agreement on Human Rights Declaration, Citizen and Political Rights, Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict.
Besides, Hocali genocide is parallel to the definition of genocide in the second article of the ‘United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime Genocide’ which is accepted on December 9, 1948 and ratified on January 12, 1951 stating “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial o religious group”. The massacre took place in Hocali by Armenians is parallel to the UN Genocide Convention’s second article’s first two clauses over five. According to this article, to implement one of the five activities is enough for genocide to take place. The Hocali genocide matches with the related articles a clause which states “killing member of the group” and b clause which states “causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group”.
Besides, Hocali massacre shall be taken into consideration in accordance with the crimes against humanity which is defined Article 6 and Clause C of the Foundation Act and Court Decision of prestigious Nürnberg Court’s.
In Hocali a crime was committed according to the war crimes and other crimes, and also basic international documents.
What Should Be Done Regarding to the Hocali Genocide?
Bearing in mind the fact that the incidents took place in Hocali is characterized as genocide, the things should be done are mentioned as follows:
What Should Azerbaijan Do?
Azerbaijan should start the legal procedures regarding to the recognition of the massacre which take place in the Hocali town of the Upper Karabakh region as genocide in the international community. Azerbaijan government should apply to the International Court of Justice and file a claim in regard with the UN Genocide Convention which is accepted on December 9, 1948. In accordance with the necessary evidences all the political actors and military commanders participated in the Hocali Genocide, including the current President of Armenia, Robert Koçaryan and the Minister of Defense and the strong candidate of the future presidency Serj Sarkisyan, should be clearly specified and asked for their punishment. As both Armenia (in 1993) and Azerbaijan (in 1996) signed the UN Genocide Convention, they are bounded with the Convention. For example, Bosnia Herzigovina applied to this court and requested the adjudication of the former Yugoslavia President Slobadan Milosevic. During the trial, International Court of Justice judged Milosevic because of the slaughter of 7000 Bosnians in Srebrenitsa in 1995 and considered this slaughter as genocide.
On the other hand, Azerbaijan should use petrol trump card effectively in the Hocali issue and in other problems with Armenia.
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