New Azerbaijan House in Krakow honours memory of Khojaly genocide victims PHOTO

A memorial ceremony dedicated to the 32nd anniversary of the Khojaly genocide has been organized at the newly opened Azerbaijan House in Krakow.

The ceremony was attended by Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Poland Nargiz Gurbanova, chairman of the State Committee for Work with Diaspora Fuad Muradov, as well as representatives of the Azerbaijani Diaspora, local public and various communities operating in Poland, Report informs.

First, the participants of the event observed a minute of silence in memory of those killed in Khojaly. Then the photo exhibition reflecting the horrible massacre committed in Khojaly was familiarized, carnations were laid to the portraits of genocide victims, candles were lit near them.

The visitors of the exhibition were informed in detail about the tragedy.

They were told that the Khojaly genocide, during which 613 peaceful inhabitants of Khojaly, including 63 children, 106 women and 70 old people, were brutally killed in one night and 8 families were completely slaughtered, was a part of the ethnic cleansing policy implemented by Armenia against the Azerbaijani people.

At present 28 Azerbaijani Houses are functioning in 16 countries of the world, holding numerous events to propagandize Azerbaijani culture and inform the world public about the country.

The Khojaly genocide is the gravest crime of genocide 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. 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, to break their will to fight and annihilate the Azerbaijani population of Nagorno-Karabakh.