European Court launches probe into Armenian president's involvement in Khojaly massacre

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has asked Turkey-based Organization for Fight against Baseless Armenian Allegations (ASIMDER) to provide documents which prove that Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan ordered Armenian armed forces to commit a massacre in Khojaly, Azerbaijan, Hurriyyet quoted ASIMDER chairman Goksel Gulbey as saying.

According to him, the European Court of Human Rights replied to their application for Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to be tried on the Khojaly genocide.

“European Court of Human Rights stated that they put our application into operation and asked us to send documents about the application to the court by January 8, 2010,” Gulbey said.

"The court asks us to provide documents about Sargsyan. As an addition to the documents we already have, we asked Azerbaijan’s Consulate General to Kars to provide us with more documents. When documents are sent, we will prepare our application in the shortest term and we will present them to the court.”

“We believe that the European Court of Human Rights will make a fair decision. Sargsyan was the commander of the Armenian armed forces which committed massacre in Khojaly in 1992. He ordered Armenian armed forces to commit a massacre and he also participated in that. The blood of the victims of Khojaly massacre has not dried yet. 1.2 million Azerbaijani citizen had to flee their homeland as displaced persons in that period. Sargsyan should be tried in ECHR for these crimes,” he added.

/APA/