Azerbaijani FM issues statement on Khojali genocide

As APA informs, FM Press made the following statement:

"Azerbaijani people, who were target of Armenian genocide policy in the beginning of last century, became victims of massacres, bloody tragedies perpetrated in Baku, Shamakhi, Garabagh, Nakhchivan, Zengezur and other regions of Azerbaijan in March 1918.

At the night from February 25 to 26, 1992, Armenian armed groups, supported by military personnel (predominantly consisting of Armenians) and hard armament of the infantry regiment #366 (quartered since the Soviet times in the city of Khankendi), completely ruined the town of Khojali.

Regiment #366 made five attacks on the Khojali in which 7,000 people lived. Armenians murdered innocent people - women, children, the elderly and patients with a special cruelty. Armenians committed the Khojali genocide, one of the most monstrous crimes of the XX century.

This genocide committed by the Armenian aggressors against the Azerbaijani people led to death of 613 civilians, including 106 women, 63 children, 70 old men. There were 1275 innocent people who were taken hostages. More than 1,000 innocent people became disabled as a result of injuries.

Azerbaijan Foreign Policy Office and its embassies are taking regular measures to draw the attention of the world community and international organizations to the Khojali genocide. The tragedy is result of Armenian savagery committed at the end of the XX century, when the rule of law and human rights of civilized world were protected.

As a result of these measures, the international community is aware of Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, Armenian savageries. All of our embassies in foreign countries publicized the horrors of the Khojali genocide among the foreign communities. Azerbaijani communities in various cities took active part and initiatives in this. The main objective is to prevent massacres against Azerbaijani people and to take into account that unpunished crimes lead to new crimes."