Tragedy
26 February 1992
The world should know
Armenian`s Genocide
the middle of 1991 – Khojaly population 63000 people
30th of October 1991 - automobile communication with Khojaly stopped and communication with the town realized by means of helicopters
January 1992 - 3000 civil people protected by 160 soldiers
2 January 1992 - no electricity in Khojaly
13 February 1992 - last military helicopter with food and petrol landed in the town
Town was expecting the Armenian attack...
"...Everything was burning in the town...People in horror were running in the darkness. About 120-130 people and me ran to the Kyatuk wood. The most people were bare feet, sleepy, having just jumped from their beds…"
613 killed, 487 wounded...
613 killed, among them
63 children, 106 women, 70 elders.
8 families killed completely.
25 children lost both parents.
130 children lost one of the parents.
487 people wounded, including 76 children.
1275 people taken as hostages.
150 people missing.
…were taken off bosoms, noses, ears, shooting into the sexual organs of women, gouged out eyes, broken teeth, cut of sexual organs of men… (from medical report)
Children victims of Khojaly
They cried,they begged for help, but nobody helped them
died… from bullet's wound, from the injuries of blunt instruments, from cutting and pickling instruments, and so on. (from medical report)
there is no limit to anger
…an awful smell of burned meet haunts me even now...
…They were prepared for everything, but what they saw shocked them...
my mother…
my father…
me !!!
…these predators with human appearance brought two Azerbaijanis and pierced their eyes with screwdrivers...
..mercenaries pulled out my toe-nails…
…later the soldiers and Armenian bandits started killing and torturing the children in front of their parents…
…they took away my 18-year-old daughter who was pregnant…
The world should know
by Dr. Gokhan Karalar