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MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 26. Reconstruction
work is underway in Azerbaijan's ruined Khojaly, where Armenia
committed massacres against Azerbaijanis 32 years ago, Rovshan
Mammadov, the author of the "Week" analytical and informational
program said at the AzTV channel, Trend reports.
He emphasized that Azerbaijani soldiers avenged the Khojaly
massacre on the battlefield.
"For 30 years, we patiently waited for the world community to
take a fair stance on the Khojaly atrocity and the occupation of
Karabakh. But this did not happen. Led by President and Supreme
Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani people liberated
Karabakh from occupation at the cost of our martyrs' blood and
lives, as well as the heroism of the Azerbaijani Army," the
journalist noted.
"Today, the spirits of 613 innocent residents killed in the
massacre, as well as the souls of our martyrs, rejoice in Khojaly
because the city is being rebuilt and expanded. A new khojaly is
being created," he added.
On the night of February 25–26, 1992, Khojaly was occupied by
Armenia's armed forces with the assistance of the former USSR's
366th Motorized Rifle Regiment following massive artillery
shelling.
As a result of the mass terror, 613 people, including 63
children, 106 women, and 70 elderly citizens, were brutally
murdered; eight families were completely wiped out; 130 children
lost one of their parents; and 25 children lost both of their
parents. The fate of 150 people, including 68 women and 26 children
out of 1275 people, who were taken prisoner and hostage as well as
cruelly tortured, is still unknown.
On September 19–20, 2023, Azerbaijan carried out anti-terrorist
measures in Karabakh. This way, Azerbaijan's sovereignty and
territorial integrity were fully restored. On October 15, last
year, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev raised
the national flag in Khojaly.
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