Azerbaijani town of Khojaly, swept off the face of the earth - PHOTOS

Armenian military forces committed genocide acts in the town of Khojaly, Azerbaijan, with the population of 7,000 people on Feb. 26 1992. There were 3,000 people in the town at the time of Armenian military forces' attack. Most part of the population had to leave town during the four months blockade. 613 people were killed, 1000 peaceful people of different age became handicaps during Khojaly genocide. 106 women, 63 children, 70 old men were killed. 8 families were completely slaughtered, 130 children lost one parents, while 25 both of them. 1,275 peace residents were taken hostages, while the fate of 150 of them is still unknown.

A part of town residents, attempted to flee, were killed by Armenians, waiting in the ambushes. According to the Russian remedial centre Memorial, 200 corpses had been brought from Khojali to Agdam, tens of humiliation facts have been discovered on them. 181 corpses (130 men and 51 women) underwent a forensic medical examination in Agdam. According to the examination 151 persons died from bullet wounds, 20 - from missile wounds, 10 people were killed with blunt tools. Remedial centre discovered a fact of scalping of a living man.

56 people were brutally killed. They had been burned alive and beheaded. Their faces had been skinned. Even the eyes of infants had been gouged out, while the bellies of pregnant women had been sliced upon with bayonets. Armenians desecrated the corpses. The events that took place during the Khojali tragedy can be called nothing less than inhuman and horrific. People sometimes lie, so do the facts and stats. Archive pictures shown below, do not.


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