(MENAFN- AzerNews)
Fatima Hasanova read more Turkiye's Vice President Fuat Oktay in a tweet commemorated the
memory of the Khojaly genocide victims, marked on February 26,
Azernews reports.
'We remember with pain the atrocities that occurred in Khojaly
31 years ago. We honor the memory of our brothers and sisters who
died. The pain of Azerbaijan is our pain. We have not forgotten, we
will not forget ,' he wrote.
The Khojaly genocide is seen as the pinnacle of the systematic
crimes and atrocities committed by Armenia against
Azerbaijanis.
As a result of this bloody massacre, 613 people, including 106
women, 63 children, and 70 elderly were killed, 8 families were
completely wiped out, 25 children lost both parents, 130 children
lost one of their parents, 487 people were seriously injured, 1,275
people were taken hostage, and the fate of 150 of them is still
unknown.
Some 56 people were killed with extreme cruelty, with their
heads peeled off, various limbs severed, eyes removed, and pregnant
women's bellies pierced with bayonets. As a result, eight families
were utterly destroyed, 25 children lost both parents, and 130
children were orphaned.
Relevant documents adopted by the parliaments of Mexico,
Pakistan, the Czech Republic, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Honduras,
Sudan, Guatemala, and Djibouti recognized the Khojaly massacre as
an act of genocide. The parliaments of Romania, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Serbia, Jordan, Slovenia, Scotland, and Paraguay, as
well as the executive and legislative bodies of 22 U.S. states,
have strongly condemned the Khojaly tragedy as a massacre. The
Organization of Islamic Cooperation recognized Armenia as an
aggressor and the Khojaly tragedy as genocide.
Azerbaijan annually commemorates the victims of the Khojaly
genocide on February 26.
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