President Honors Memory of Victims of Khojaly Genocide

Baku/26.02.21/Turan: On February 26, President Ilham Aliyev and First Vice President Mehriban Aliyeva commemorated the victims of the Khojaly genocide by laying a wreath at the Mother's Call memorial in Baku.

The Khojaly genocide was committed on the night of February 25-26, 1992. On the night of February 25-26, 1992, after massive artillery strikes, Armenian armed formations with the support of the 366th motorized rifle regiment of the former USSR occupied Khojaly. Having defeated Khojaly, the invaders committed genocide of its peaceful population with particular cruelty.

5,379 residents of the city were forcibly expelled, 1,275 people were taken captive and hostage, subjected to torture (of which the fate of 150 people, including 68 women and 26 children, is currently unknown), 487 people received bodily injuries of varying severity, 8 families were completely destroyed, 130 children lost one of their parents, 25 children - both parents, 613 people, including 63 and 70 old people were brutally tortured under torture.   —0-