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On the night from 25th to 26th February 1992 the armed forces of Armenian Republic, the Armenian insurgents in Nagorno-Karabakh and the 366th motorized Rifle Regiment of the Soviet army long known to the world as “peace-keepers”, place in Khankendi destroyed the city of Khojaly together with its citizens and committed the genocide which is an indelible stain on humanity.
The houses were burnt and destroyed. The civilians who were forced to flee the town and were heading to Aghdam city along the river Gargar faced the Armenian forces not far from the village Nakhchivanik. The children, women, elderly and disabled people were fired and brutally killed.
Within a few hours 613 civilian Azerbaijanis including 63 children, 106 women, 70 elderly people were ruthlessly tortured and killed. 487 were injured, 1275 civilians were taken to hostage and faced unthinkable abuse and humiliation. The militants scalped the dead bodies, pricked the children’s eyes off, buried the people alive or burned them.
23rd commemoration of Khojaly massacre
On the night from 25th to 26th February 1992 the armed forces of Armenian Republic, the Armenian insurgents in Nagorno-Karabakh and the 366th motorized Rifle Regiment of the Soviet army long known to the world as “peace-keepers”, place in Khankendi destroyed the city of Khojaly together with its citizens and committed the genocide which is an indelible stain on humanity.
The houses were burnt and destroyed. The civilians who were forced to flee the town and were heading to Aghdam city along the river Gargar faced the Armenian forces not far from the village Nakhchivanik. The children, women, elderly and disabled people were fired and brutally killed.
Within a few hours 613 civilian Azerbaijanis including 63 children, 106 women, 70 elderly people were ruthlessly tortured and killed. 487 were injured, 1275 civilians were taken to hostage and faced unthinkable abuse and humiliation. The militants scalped the dead bodies, pricked the children’s eyes off, buried the people alive or burned them.
KHOJALY FLASHMOB IN VILNIUS
With the support of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Lithuania, active members of the Azerbaijani Youth Organization of Lithuania held a flashmob dedicated to the Khojaly genocide on the banks of the Neris River in the center of Vilnius.
The event, held with the special permission of the Vilnius city council, took place in front of the municipality.
Along with Azerbaijani students studying at Vilnius and Kaunas universities, Lithuanian youth also took an active part in organizing this flashmob.
Khojaly, the second largest town in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, came under intense fire from the towns of Khankendi and Askeran already occupied by the Armenian armed forces in 1992.
About 613 civilians mostly women and children were killed in the massacre, and a total of 1,000 people were disabled. Eight families were exterminated, 25 children lost both parents, and 130 children lost one parent. Moreover, 1,275 innocent people were taken hostage, and the fate of 150 of them remains unknown.
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The Nagorno-Karabakh War was an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place in the late 1980s to May 1994, in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh backed by the Republic of Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan. As the war progressed, Armenia and Azerbaijan, both former Soviet Republics, entangled themselves in a protracted, undeclared war in the mountainous heights of Karabakh as Azerbaijan attempted to curb the secessionist movement in Nagorno-Karabakh. The enclave's parliament had voted in favor of uniting itself with Armenia and a referendum, boycotted by the Azerbaijani population of Nagorno-Karabakh, was held, whereby most of the voters voted in favor of independence. The demand to unify with Armenia, which began anew in 1988, began in a relatively peaceful manner; in the following months, as the Soviet Union's disintegrated, it gradually grew into an increasingly violent conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis, resulting in claims of ethnic cleansing by both sides.Inter-ethnic clashes between the two broke out shortly after the parliament of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) in Azerbaijan voted to unify the region with Armenia on 20 February 1988. The declaration of secession from Azerbaijan was the final result of a territorial conflict regarding the land. As Azerbaijan declared its independence from the Soviet Union and removed the powers held by the enclave's government, the Armenian majority voted to secede from Azerbaijan and in the process proclaimed the unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.Full-scale fighting erupted in early 1992. International mediation by several groups including the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) failed to bring an end resolution that both sides could work with. In early 1993, Armenian forces captured regions outside the enclave itself, threatening the involvement of other countries in the region. By the end of the war in 1994, the Armenians were in full control of the enclave (with the exception of the Shahumyan Region) in addition to surrounding areas of Azerbaijan proper, most notably the Lachin Corridor, a mountain pass that links Nagorno-Karabakh with mainland Armenia. A Russian-brokered ceasefire was signed in May 1994, but regular peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group have failed to result in a peace treaty. This has left the Nagorno-Karabakh area in a state of legal limbo, with the Republic of Artsakh remaining de facto independent but internationally unrecognized while Armenian forces currently control approximately 9% of Azerbaijan's territory outside the enclave. As many as 230,000 Armenians from Azerbaijan and 800,000 Azerbaijanis from Armenia and Karabakh have been displaced as a result of the conflict.
Khodjaly genocide - Never forget !!!!!! .wmv
The night from February 25 to 26, 1992, has been recorded in black letters in history of the Azerbaijani people.
That night the Armenian armed formations with the support of military staff and armored technique of 366th motor-rifle regiment billeted in the city of Khankendi, the majority of staff of which were Armenians, have wiped the city of Khojaly off the face of earth.
As the acts of genocide in Khatyn, Lidice and Oradour, the Khojaly tragedy also became the bloody event added in history of civilization.
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Anti-Armenian sentiment in Azerbaijan
00:03:40 1 Early period
00:05:49 2 During the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
00:09:24 3 Post-1994 era
00:10:20 3.1 Influence on Azerbaijani national identity
00:11:17 3.2 In the Media
00:12:27 3.3 Indoctrination in schools
00:13:46 3.4 Destruction of cultural heritage
00:15:29 3.5 Incidents of violence and hatred
00:16:49 3.6 Denying entry to Azerbaijan
00:18:09 3.7 Official position
00:19:53 3.7.1 Statements by President Ilham Aliyev
00:22:03 3.8 Stance on the Armenian Genocide
00:22:18 4 Reaction
00:22:27 4.1 Armenia
00:24:29 4.2 Azerbaijan
00:26:38 5 See also
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Anti-Armenian sentiment is widespread in Azerbaijan, mainly due to the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. According to the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), Armenians are the most vulnerable group in Azerbaijan in the field of racism and racial discrimination. According to a 2012 opinion poll, 91% of Azerbaijanis perceive Armenia as the biggest enemy of Azerbaijan. The word Armenian (erməni) is widely used as an insult in Azerbaijan. Negative stereotypes about Armenians are present in the majority of mass media outlets in Azerbaijan. Those stereotypes are somewhat shared by the public, and they definitely do not come out of nowhere. Stereotypical opinions circulating in the mass media have their deep roots in the public consciousness.Throughout the 20th century, Armenians and the Muslim inhabitants of the Caucasus—Azerbaijanis were called Caucasian Tatars before 1918— had been involved in numerous conflicts. Pogroms, massacres and wars solidified oppositional ethnic identities between the two groups, and have contributed to the development of national consciousnesses among both Armenians and Azeris. From 1918 to 1920, organized killings of Armenians occurred in Azerbaijan, especially in the Armenian cultural centers in Baku and Shusha, under the Russian Empire.However, contemporary Armenophobia in Azerbaijan traces its roots to the last years of the Soviet Union, when Armenians demanded that the Moscow authorities transfer the mostly Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast in the Azerbaijan SSR to the Armenian SSR. In response to those Armenian demands, anti-Armenian rallies were held in various cities, where nationalist groups encouraged anti-Armenian feeling that led to pogroms in Sumgait, Kirovabad and Baku. An estimated 350,000 Armenians left between 1988 and 1990 as a direct result of the violence directed towards them.Disputes over the ownership of Nagorno-Karabakh eventually escalated into a large-scale military conflict, where Armenian forces took control of most of former NKAO and seven adjacent districts. According to HRW, systematic abuse of human rights was carried out by Karabakh Armenian forces and by the governments of Azerbaijan and Armenia. A cease-fire was achieved in 1994 and still remains in effect as the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is de facto independent, while de jure inside Azerbaijan's borders. The unresolved conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh as well as the presence of up to 880,000 refugees and IDPs in Azerbaijan contributed significantly to aggravating the economic, social and political situation in Azerbaijan, with around 14% of the country's territory occupied by Armenian forces.The Armenian side has accused the Azerbaijani government of carrying out anti-Armenian policy inside and outside the country, which includes propaganda of hate toward Armenia and Armenians and the destruction of Armenian cultural heritage.According to Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Russia in Global Affairs, Armenophobia is the institutional part of the modern Azerbaijani statehood and Karabakh is in the center of it. In 2011, the ECRI report on Azerbaijan stated that the constant negative official and media discourse against Armenia fosters a negative climate of opinion regarding people of Armenian o ...