Azeri street named after Czech's Lidice

A street in the Ashagi Agjakand settlement of the Goranboy region of Azerbaijan, where IDPs from Khojaly living, has been named after Czech`s Lidice city.

Opening the event, governor of Khojaly Shahmar Usubov highilghted the tragedies in Khojaly and Lidice. He stressed on 25–26 February 1992 Armenian armed forces, with help of the 366th Motor Rifle Regiment of the former USSR occupied Khojaly, leveling the town to the ground, like Lidice.

Member of the Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh, MP Elman Mammadov, Czech ambassador to Azerbaijan Radek Matula and others made speeches at the event. The speakers touched upon the necessity of boosting relations between Khojaly and Lidice underlining the importance of voicing protest against anti-humane tragedies.

A documentary on the Lidice tragedy was demonstrated in the settlement`s culture house after unveiling of bas-relief “Lidice street”. First deputy chair of the Azerbaijan State Committee for Work with Diaspora Valeh Hajiyev, official of Lidice City Vladimir Kuvachik, representative of the Azerbaijani Diaspora in Czech Republic Elshan Nazarov, deputy governor of Khojaly Vahid Aliyev and others made remarks on Khojaly and Lidice tragedies. A street in Lidice also was also named after Khojaly.

Lidice is a village in the Czech Republic just northwest of Prague. It is built on the site of a previous village of the same name which, as part of the Nazi-created Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was, on orders directly from Heinrich Himmler, completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942. On June 10, 1942, all 192 men over 16 years of age from the village were murdered on the spot by the Germans in a much publicised atrocity. The rest of the population were sent to Nazi concentration camps where many women and nearly all the children were killed.


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