(MENAFN- AzerNews) By Fatima Hasanova
Another mass grave has been discovered on the
liberated territories of Azerbaijan, Azernews reports, referring to
Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry.
During excavations in the liberated Sarijali village
of Aghdam District, with the participation of police officers,
prosecutors, and the Security Service, human remains were
found.
It is assumed that the remains belong to people who
were killed and buried in 1992.
It should be mentioned that in the XX century, Armenians
perpetrated systematic crimes and atrocities against Azerbaijanis
to break the spirit of the nation and annihilate the Azerbaijani
people of Karabakh. The Khojaly genocide is regarded as the
culmination of the Armenian mass murders.
Some 613 Azerbaijanis, including 63 children, 106 women, and 70
elders were brutally murdered on the ground of national identity in
Khojaly in 1992.
This heinous act was preceded by a slew of others. Armenians set
fire to around 20 buildings in the Baghanis-Ayrim village of Gazakh
District, killing eight Azerbaijanis. A family of five, including a
39-day-old newborn, were all burnt alive.
Between June and December 1991, the Armenian troops murdered 12
and wounded 15 Azerbaijanis in Khojavand District's Garadaghli and
Asgaran District's Meshali villages.
Armenian military detachments bombed buses on the
Shusha-Jamilli, Aghdam-Khojavand, and Aghdam-Garadaghli routes in
August and September of the same year, killing 17 Azerbaijanis and
injuring over 90 others.
In October and November 1991, Armenians burned, destroyed, and
plundered over 30 settlements in the mountainous area of Karabakh,
including Tugh, Imarat-Garvand, Sirkhavand, Meshali, Jamilli,
Umudlu, Garadaghli, Karkijahan, and other significant villages.
It should be noted that over 4,000 Azerbaijanis went missing as
a result of the First Karabakh War. It is believed that the vast
majority of them were systematically killed and buried in mass
graves.
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