Khojaly genocide is a crime committed against humanity.
The Gabala Region Police Department hosted an event in connection with the 25th anniversary of the Khojaly tragedy. The meeting was opened with the introductory speech of the Chief of the Police Department, Police Colonel Nadir Mammadov. At first, the blessed memory of our compatriots who were brutally murdered during the events of an unprecedented genocide committed by Armenians in Khojaly, including our police officers and soldiers who heroically died defending the city, was honoured with minute of silence. Then the floor was given to the officer of the Gabala Region Education Department, historian Rasim Bayramov. He noted that the genocide committed against Azerbaijanis on the night of February 25th to 26th, 1992, Armenian armed gangs using armored vehicles and troops of the 366th regiment belonging to the former Soviet Union, stationed in Khankendi, is on a par with the most violent events against humanity in the last century. This act of genocide is compared with the genocide committed in Khatin village of the Republic of Belarus by German fascists during the Second World War. But the horror of Khojaly tragedy differs in the fact that people here have been brutally murdered, desecrated and tortured simply because they were Azerbaijanis, Muslims. Therefore, this is the real tragedy of the genocide committed against our people. Unfortunately, despite the fact that the Khojaly genocide was recognized as genocide by the parliaments of several countries, it did not get a true assessment of global organizations like the United Nations (UN), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the European Council (EC) and other international organizations. Summarizing the event, the Chief of the Police Department said that the unprecedented atrocities committed by Armenians in Khojaly should not be forgotten. It's true, that our people are not vengeful, throughout history we were forgiving our enemies. Today, however, we have no right to forget the day, the 25th anniversary of which we remember bitterly, and we should educate our future generation thereabout.
