BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 26. The massacre
committed by the Armenian armed forces on February 25-26, 1992 in
the city of Khojaly against the civilian population of Azerbaijan
is a crime against humanity, Assistant to the President of
Azerbaijan and Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the
Presidential Administration Hikmet Hajiyev wrote on his page on X,
Trend
reports.

“Over the night of 25–26 February 1992, as a result of the
attack and capture of the Khojaly town by the armed forces of
Armenia supported by the regiment No.366 of former USSR, 613
Azerbaijani civilians were mercilessly killed, including 106 women,
63 children and 70 elderly people. Another 1,000 people were
wounded, and 1,275 people were taken hostage. To this day, 150
people from Khojaly remain missing.

The deliberate mass massacre of Azerbaijani civilians
perpetrated by the armed forces of Armenia in the town of Khojaly
in February 25-26, 1992 is a “genocide” and a “crime against
humanity”.

The crimes committed in Khojaly were not an isolated or sporadic
act but an integral part of Armenia’s widespread and systematic
policy and practice of ethnic cleansing.

The Khojaly genocide was the worst mass massacre of the innocent
civilian population in Europe since the Second World War.

The Khojaly genocide took place in the conditions of complete
silence and indifference of the international community. Justice
for the victims of Khojaly was ensured by the state of Azerbaijan
itself. Khojaly was freed from occupation in September 2023, and a
group of masterminders and perpetrators of this crime will soon be
brought to justice. But our biggest consolation is that Khojaly
survivors and each and every citizen of Azerbaijan can now visit
liberated Khojaly and the entire Karabakh and Eastern Zangezur
freely and with dignity and pride,” he wrote.