On February 26, in connection with the 33rd anniversary of the Khojaly tragedy, Prime Minister Ali Asadov, Speaker of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova, Head of the Presidential Administration Samir Nuriyev, and other state and government officials visited the Khojaly Genocide Memorial, APA reports.
The state and government officials laid flowers at the memorial, honoring the cherished memory of the victims of the tragedy.
Note that on the night of February 25 to 26, 1992, Armenian armed forces, with the participation of the former Soviet army’s 366th regiment stationed in the city of Khankendi, razed the city of Khojaly to the ground. As a result of this another mass massacre committed by Armenian aggressors against the Azerbaijani people, 613 people — including 106 women, 63 children, and 70 elderly individuals — were brutally killed, 1,275 civilians were taken hostage, and the fate of 150 people remains unknown. As a result of this act of genocide, 8 families were completely wiped out, 25 children lost both parents, and 130 children lost one of their parents.
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