(MENAFN- The Peninsula)
On the eve of 25th anniversary of Khojaly Genocide, the embassy of Azerbaijan in Qatar has said the crime by Armenian aggressors against Azerbaijani people hasn't received due condemnation by the world community to date.
Azerbaijani people will never forget memory of all Khojaly martyrs and will continue the struggle to restore its territorial integrity and to bring perpetrators of massacres against Azerbaijanis to the justice, said a press release.
25 years have passed since Armenian military forces committed genocide act against peaceful inhabitants of the city of Khojaly of Azerbaijan in 1992. This genocide was committed as a part of aggression, long-lasting ethnic cleansing and genocide policy of Armenian chauvinists and their supporters against Azerbaijan, violating the norms and principles of international law as well as the human rights and freedoms.
The massacre committed in Khojaly city on the night from February 25 amd 26 1992, by the Armenian armed forces together with 366th moto-artillery regiment of former Soviet army was one of the unprecedented events in the history of humanity due to its cruelty.
During Khojaly genocide, 613 people including 106 women, 63 children and 70 old people were killed; over 1000 civilians became disabled; 1275 people were taken hostages, the fate of 150 out of them still remains unknown.
As many as eight families were totally exterminated; 25 children lost both whereas 130 children lost one parent; captives and hostages were subjected to merciless torture. All these acts were committed by Armenian military mercilessly and inconceivable barbarism and human rights of those people, especially the fundamental right to life were grossly violated.
During the aggression against the people in Khojaly, all elements of the crime of genocide stated in the International Conventions (The UN General Assembly Resolution 96 (I) dated 11 December 1946 & United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide adopted by the Resolution 260 (III) of the UN General Assembly of 9 December 1948. ) were applied.Unfortunately, the genocide against Azerbaijani civilians have not been yet properly assessed, organisers and the committers of this crime were not prosecuted and punished.
Armenia continued its aggression against Azerbaijan even after the Khojaly massacre and invaded twenty percent of Azerbaijani territories (Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent seven regions) violating the principles of international law and ignoring international community's demands to stop aggression.
During the past few years, a number of actions have been fulfilled to draw the attention of the international community to the realities about Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, including Khojaly tragedy.
The Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) was the first international organisation that recognised Armenia as an aggressor and the Khojaly tragedy as genocide. Resolution No. 8/42-C adopted by the 42nd session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of OIC member states (Kuwait, 27-28 may, 2015) calls upon Member States and OIC institutions to support and actively participate in the events of the Campaign 'Justice for Khojaly and exert due efforts for recognition on national and international levels of this genocidal act as crime against humanity as well as for bringing to justice the perpetrators.
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