30 years pass since Aghbadan genocide in Azerbaijan
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 8 . 30 years have passed
since the genocide committed by the Armenia in the village of
Aghdaban on the Azerbaijani Kalbajar region, Trend reports.
On the night from April 7 through 8, 1992, during the occupation
of Kalbajar, Armenian armed grip massacred the residents of the
village of Aghdaban. A total of 130 houses of the settlement were
burned, 779 civilians were subjected to inhuman torture, including
67 who were killed. Armenian armed groups burned 8 people aged over
90 alive, as well as two children and seven women, 12 people were
seriously injured, the fate of two persons is still unknown.
As another manifestation of the policy of vandalism carried out
by Armenians against Azerbaijani cultural heritage, monuments of
history, architecture, and culture were destroyed, sacred places of
worship of Azerbaijanis of the Turkic-Islamic period were
desecrated and destroyed.
National leader Heydar Aliyev was the first to give a legal and
political assessment of this tragedy, calling the events in
Aghdaban the greatest crime against humanity and describing them as
a shame for all mankind.
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