Feb 24, 2011

KHOJALY: The chronicle of unseen forgery and falsification


Seeing Khojaly I couldn~Rt conceal my consternation. Having been
destroyed to the ground, this Azerbaijani settlement is completely
restored, and transformed into a town Ivanovka in honor of Armenian
general having taken an active part in the occupation of Khojaly.

The Khojaly tragedy, the deep wounds in our souls inflicted by
Armenian expansionism on this long-suffering Azerbaijani land,
run all through my meetings in Askeran.

How is that? Isn~Rt there anything humane left in these people?

met some Khojaly refugees who temporarily lived in Nafatalan and
who openly confessed that the day before the large scale attack of

And several days before the attack, Armenians gave the inhabitants
warnings by loudspeakers about the planned operation and suggested
that the population abandon the settlement and break out the
encirclement by the humanitarian corridor, along the bank of the
didn~Rt open fire at them. Several soldiers from the NFA battalion,
village Nakhijevanik which at that time was under control of Askeran
battalion of Armenians. The rest of the population was straddled by
artillery fire at the foot of Aghdam region.

local authorities Slavik Arushanyan and compared his recollections
with the words of Khojali inhabitants who were under fire from the
Azerbaijani side.

the Khojaly inhabitants went out. Getting to know the geographical
surroundings, I can state with a full conviction that conjectures about
the absence of Armenian corridor are groundless. The corridor indeed
existed. Otherwise the Khojali inhabitants, completely surrounded and
isolated from the outer world, could never have breached the rings
direction of Nakhijevanik. It seems that battalions of NFA strived
not for the liberation of Khojaly inhabitants, but longed for much
blood on the way of A. Mutalibov~Rs overthrow.

As S. Arushanyan says: ~SSeveral days before the attack, your then
president A. Mutalibov gave a telephone call to Stepanakert and made
a request to Lazarian, our former president. He requested to provide
conditions for the people to leave the blockade Khojaly. In reply
Lazarian asked A. Mutalibov - why aren~Rt you interested in your
people~Rs destiny? The helicopters sent from Baku are loaded by the
cattle and not by people.~T

are the sad recollections about the first Karabakh war.

I asked the Askeran inhabitants: ~SI was told in Karabakh that
Azerbaijani live here. Is it true?~T

~SWe can visit them right now~T, answered S. Arushanyan to my surprise.

am from Baku, he wasn~Rt embarrassed at all.

the beginning of the mass disturbances I moved to Azerbaijan and
again returned to Ujar. I couldn~Rt survive there.

- When did you return to Askeran?


Here S. Arushanyan interrupted our conversation: ~SI told the guys
then- why to kill him? What is he guilty of? Today there is no
difference for us what nationality Tofik is~T.

my impressions and estimated them by a beloved word ~Sprovocation~T.

newspaper ~SRealniy Azerbaijan~T

From: A. Papazian