Uzbekistan describes consequences of Armenian occupation in Azerbaijan PHOTO

A media tour of representatives of the Uzbek Sevimli TV channel to Azerbaijan has been organised as part of the project of Azerbaijan’s Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre in Uzbekistan.

Sevimli TV channel has prepared a video footage about the consequences of the Armenian occupation in the Aghdam district of the Karabakh region and Askeran settlement in the Khojaly region of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre told Azertac.

Aghdam, a city that is called “Hiroshima of the Caucasus”, was demonstrated. Sevimli TV channel correspondent Nigora Elmuradova informs viewers that Armenia kept these territories under occupation for almost thirty years and completely devastated the region, barbarously destroying all infrastructure in the city. Elmuradova stressed that Aghdam, a once flourishing city of the Caucasus, is terrible now. The journalist noted that the Azerbaijani government pays special attention to the restoration of Karabakh and to the return of people there.

Armenian separatists destroyed almost the entire cultural heritage of Azerbaijan, desecrated religious monuments and shrines in the previously occupied territories.

The TV channel also informs about Azerbaijan’s ongoing large-scale restoration work, as well as the measures taken to clear the lands of unexploded mines.

The second video footage of the Sevimli TV channel describes a mass grave recently discovered in Askeran settlement in the Khojaly district. Presumably, these are the remains of the genocide victims.

In an interview with the TV channel, member of the working group of the Azerbaijani State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing People Zaur Ismayilov said that proceeding from the investigative operations, the remains found in the mass grave belonged to civilians. The civilians were ambushed and killed near the Askeran fortress on the road from Khojaly to Aghdam. Their bodies were buried near this fortress.

According to the video footage, many mass graves were previously discovered in the liberated Azerbaijani territories.