Azerbaijani ombudswoman joins event on Khojaly genocide in Türkiye

Azerbaijan’s Ombudswoman Sabina Aliyeva has participated in a commemorative event in Türkiye's Ankara city to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Khojaly genocide. 

The event, held to revere the memory of the victims, was organised by the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye, the Türkiye-Azerbaijan Friendship, Cooperation and Solidarity Association, and the Azerbaijani embassy in Türkiye, Caliber.Az reports via local media.

The Khojaly genocide is the gravest crime committed against peaceful Azerbaijani people in the course of Armenia’s aggressive war against Azerbaijan. On the night of February 25-26, 1992, in violation of all international legal norms, Armenian armed forces attacked the civilian population of the sieged town of Khojaly with heavy military equipment, killing them with unprecedented brutality and razing the town to the ground. As a result of crime against not only the people of Azerbaijan but against humanity, 613 civilian Azerbaijanis, including 63 children, 106 women and 70 elders were brutally murdered on grounds of national identity. The Khojaly genocide is one of a series of acts of mass slaughter aiming to crush those who rose up for the defence of their lands from Armenian armed forces’ aggression.

By Naila Huseynova