Photojournalist Reza Deghati presents Khojaly genocide realities in all-new website

World-famous photojournalist Reza Deghati has created a new online portal that aims to increase recognition of the Khojaly genocide of Azerbaijanis in the world.

According to Azertag, the "Khojaly Witness" website has been developed in four languages.

The famous photojournalist Reza Deghati is one of the rare witnesses of the Khojaly genocide committed against the Azerbaijani people in 1992. For many years he has been organizing exhibitions in many countries to convey to the world the truth about the Khojaly tragedy, which Deghati captured in photographs.

“My photographs show the suffering, torment and death of innocent people. What I saw shocked me so much that I consider it my duty to tell about it,” he says.

For more than thirty years, Reza Deghati, who uses the language of photographs to tell about people in different countries who find themselves in trouble and face injustice, has been acting with a noble mission: to make the world hear the voices and feel the pain of the inhabitants of Khojaly.

The Khojaly Witness website, created in partnership with the Vice President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Leyla Aliyeva, who is also the initiator of the international campaign "Justice for Khojaly!", serves this purpose.

The site contains photos and videos taken in Khojaly and Aghdam in 1992, tells their history, and articles published in such authoritative international media as Time, The New York Times, The Washington Times, The Washington Post, BBC1News, The Independent, Le Monde, Newsweek, The Sunday Times, The Age, The Boston Globe, Kommersant and many others.

The site also presents materials that were once prepared by American journalist Thomas Goltz, Azerbaijani journalist and cameraman Chingiz Mustafayev, Reuters photographer Frederick Lengan and Lithuanian photojournalist Richardas Lapaitis.

Information on the site is available in Azerbaijani, French, English, and Russian. In the future, the site dedicated to the Khojaly genocide will be available in ten languages.