Azerbaijan's NGO launches international campaign
17/ 02/ 2006
RIA Novosti
By Gerai Dadashev
An Azerbaijani nongovernmental organization has launched a wide-ranging campaign for the international recognition of the massacre in the small town of Khojaly in 1992 that reportedly left more than 600 people dead, the NGO said on its Web site Friday.
[...] planning to collect signatures of Azerbaijanis living in the country and abroad to present them to the country's parliament, the Milli Majlisto. Parliament is then expected to initiate procedures to recognize the massacre as act of genocide.
The NGO said it would send signatures, documents and footage of the Khojaly massacre to foreign parliaments and relevant international organizations for official international recognition.
The organization said it was also seeking the construction of a memorial to Khojaly victims in the capital of Baku.
The massacre happened in 1992 amid the conflict between the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorny Karabakh, [...] over 30,000 people died on both sides between 1988 and 1994, and over 100 others died after a ceasefire was concluded in 1994.
In the early hours of February 26, Armenian military units entered Khojaly. According to Azerbaijan's data, 613 people were slaughtered, including 106 women and 83 children, and 1275 people were taken hostages. Later, Armenian authorities released the hostages, but the whereabouts of some of them are still unknown.
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RIA Novosti
By Gerai Dadashev
An Azerbaijani nongovernmental organization has launched a wide-ranging campaign for the international recognition of the massacre in the small town of Khojaly in 1992 that reportedly left more than 600 people dead, the NGO said on its Web site Friday.
[...] planning to collect signatures of Azerbaijanis living in the country and abroad to present them to the country's parliament, the Milli Majlisto. Parliament is then expected to initiate procedures to recognize the massacre as act of genocide.
The NGO said it would send signatures, documents and footage of the Khojaly massacre to foreign parliaments and relevant international organizations for official international recognition.
The organization said it was also seeking the construction of a memorial to Khojaly victims in the capital of Baku.
The massacre happened in 1992 amid the conflict between the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorny Karabakh, [...] over 30,000 people died on both sides between 1988 and 1994, and over 100 others died after a ceasefire was concluded in 1994.
In the early hours of February 26, Armenian military units entered Khojaly. According to Azerbaijan's data, 613 people were slaughtered, including 106 women and 83 children, and 1275 people were taken hostages. Later, Armenian authorities released the hostages, but the whereabouts of some of them are still unknown.
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Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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