KHOJALY TRAGEDY AND BAKU CAMPAIGN FEVER
Panorama.am
10:16 24/02/2009
In early 1992, on the night of 26 February Armenian troops neutralized
Khojaly and the operation was successfully completed. Khojaly had
an important strategic geographical occupation – it controlled over
Stepanakert-Askeran roads, as well as the only airport of Nagorno
Karabakh was situated there.
Though the Armenian party informed the Azeris, and the civilian
population was given an opportunity to leave the area through a safe
corridor, thousands of Azeri Turks were dead in the aftermaths of
the military activities.
Khojaly events give birth to many questions. For example, why the
civilian population was not isolated from the area, taking into
account the point that according to Azeri mass media the cattle
was successfully isolated from the area? Another important point
is the fact that many dead people from civilians were found in the
territory of Azerbaijan just next to the Azeri military points. They
keep silence regarding the fact that Armenian troops found many Azeri
who were lost and helped them.
Those dark pages of Khojaly events remained unrevealed and some years
later it was labeled as tragedy and an anti-Armenian campaign launched
all over the world.
Every February-March special events commemorating those victims
are held by Azeri and Turkish communities, different organizations
which have one mission to inform as many foreigners as possible about
"Armenian fascism and terror".
Those activities are well planned to veil Armenian campaign of Sumgait
genocide and Armenian Lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan’s murder. During the
year Turkey uses Khojaly as a card opposing to Great Armenian Genocide.