Khojaly Genocide
Saturday, 26. September 2009, 11:55:50
In the Khojaly town of the Upper Karabakh region in Azerbaijan, 613 people were brutally tortured and faced genocide by Armenian Armed Forces without distinguishing civilians, women, children and elderly. Among the murdered, there are 83 children, 106 women and more than 70 elderly. Eight families were completely murdered. From this massacre a total of 487 seriously injured people were survived. 1275 people were taken as hostages and 150 people were lost. Examination of the bodies proved that most of the bodies were burnt, their eyes were cut out, and their body parts including the ears, noses and heads were cut off. Even the pregnant women and children faced the same violence. This brutal massacre by Armenians can be defined completely with the definitions of genocide and crimes against humanity accepted by the international community.
The actions of the Armenians who participated in the Khojaly genocide are equivalent with the definition of genocide in the international law agreements including Geneva Convention, Agreement on Human Rights Declaration, Citizen and Political Rights, Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict and the Article 2 of the ‘United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime Genocide’ stating the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial o religious group”. Furthermore, the Khojaly genocide matches with the related articles a clause which states “killing member of the group” and b clause which states “causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group”.













