(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 23. Armenia still
talks cynically and without a drop of regret about the Khojaly
genocide, an article in the Gazeta.ua, a famous Ukrainian
newspaper, said, trend reports.
'Armenia has never been punished for the genocide it has
committed against peaceful Azerbaijani people in the city of
Khojaly. This crime against humanity occurred on the night of
February 26, 1992, when the Armenian armed forces, with the
participation of the Russian army [the 366th Russian motorized
rifle regiment], seized the city of Khojaly and committed genocide
against the civilians. As a result, 613 civilians were killed,
including 63 children, 106 women, and 70 elderly people. People
were mockingly killed, and traces of violence were found on their
bodies. At the same time, 1,275 people were captured, while 150
were missing, and 487 were severely injured,' the article said.
As noted in the article, former Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan commented on the genocide in 2000 in an interview with
British journalist Thomas de Waal: 'Before Khojaly, the
Azerbaijanis didn't take us seriously. They thought that Armenians
would not be able to raise their hand against civilians. It was
necessary to break this stereotype'.
'This is how cynically and without a drop of regret in Armenia
they have been talking about the crime against the peaceful
Azerbaijani population,' the article says.
The article emphasizes that for all the years that Armenia's
occupation of the territories of Azerbaijan lasted, no sanctions
were imposed against it.
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