SITE XOCALI.NET GOES ON REVEALING AZERBAIJANI FALSIFICATIONS: HOW DID AZERBAIJANI ‘CAPTIVE’S’ EARS GROW BACK?

16:34 26/02/2015 >> SOCIETY

The site Xocali.net goes on revealing
the falsifications of Azerbaijani propaganda over the events in Aghdam
in 1992. Within the frameworks of the propaganda campaign “Justice
for Khojaly” the Azerbaijani press publishes belated “eyewitness
testimonies” containing all sorts of absurdities and contradictions.

On 20 February, 2014 the site “Publika.az” published an article titled
“They cut off my ear with knife”. In the article an Aghdam events
“survivor” Panakh Maharramov was telling a very detailed story about
the tortures he had to “experience” in Armenian captivity.

“Then they took us to a barracks in Khankendi. Many enemy soldiers
slept there. Two of them were awake, and another old man was making a
fire for them; he was an Armenian from Sumgait. We came and sat down
in the barracks. The two came up to us. I had already got used to the
tortures and I didn’t ask for mercy from the enemy. One of them took
out an enormous knife and cut off my ear. I didn’t say anything. ‘Come
what may,’ I thought. I endured the pain in silence. Cutting off
my ear, he took it with him. I lost much blood then,” the ‘victim’
relates.

However, the Azerbaijani site was inconsiderate enough to publish
Panakh Maharramov’s photos during the wartime and now, where both of
his ears can be clearly discerned.

On February 26, 1992, during the war in Karabakh, around 200 to 300
people (according to Human Rights Watch, and 600 according to the
version propagated by Azerbaijan) were killed in unknown circumstances
near the city of Aghdam. They have been deliberately withheld by the
Azerbaijani authorities in the midst of the military actions.

Population of the village of Khojalu, which was one of the firing
points shooting at the blockaded Stepanakert (among five others)
was kept in the village for months by force and was not evacuated by
the authorities of Azerbaijan deliberately, in order to use them as
human shields later.

Residents of Khojalu coming out through the humanitarian corridor,
that the self-defense forces of NKR had left open, freely passed more
than 10 km and reached the Aghdam city controlled by the Azerbaijani
troops. Later, not far from the positions of Azerbaijani troops dead
bodies of the villagers were found. The exact death toll remains
unknown as the official Baku publishes data contradicting each other.

Parliamentary Commission investigating the tragic death of the
civilians at Aghdam city was dissolved by the order of Heydar Aliyev,
the investigative materials are kept secret.