Nagorno Garabagh

Nagorno Garabagh

EAC sends letter on Khojaly genocide to EP Human Rights Subcommittee

22 February 2016 09:58 (UTC +04:00)

Baku – APA. The European Azerbaijanis Congress (EAC) has sent to Elena Valenciano, the newly-elected chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) of the European Parliament, a letter on “The recognition as a crime of the massacre committed against the residents of Khojaly in 1992 and the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” the State Committee on Work with Diaspora told APA.

The letters calls for the European Parliament to express a certain position on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in accordance with international law, recognition as a war crime of Armenia’s act of genocide against the residents of Khojaly that took place on 26 February 1992, criminal responsibility upon Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan for this massacre, a commission of international experts to investigate this genocide, and the heads of OSCE Minsk Group countries to make efforts to achieve a peaceful solution to the conflict.

The letter also includes information about the “Justice for Khojaly!” campaign launched on the initiative of Ms Leyla Aliyeva, General Coordinator of the OIC Youth Foundation on Intercultural Dialogue of Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation (ICYFDC).

The Congress calls for the European Parliament to state a political stance on the Khojaly genocide, mentioning the “Justice for Khojaly!” public-media campaign that is ongoing in many countries.

To reach out to more audience, the Congress has also created a Facebook page dedicated to the Khojaly genocide.

(https://www.facebook.com/KhojalyMassacre1992Photos/info/?tab=page_info)

Furthermore, the Congress has published booklets providing information on the Khojaly genocide — photos from the exhibition “Khojaly in the eyes of children” organized the “Justice for Khojaly!” campaign, etc. The booklets were then sent to the parliament of Germany’s Nordrhein-Westfalen state and the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights.