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European Court of Human Rights launches probe into Armenian Presidentâ€™s hand in Khojaly massacre

05 December 2009 08:16 (UTC +04:00)

According to him, the European Court of Human Rights replied to their application for Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to be tried on the Khojaly genocide.

â€œEuropean Court of Human Rights stated that they put our application into operation and asked us to send documents about the application to the court by January 8, 2010,â€ said Gulbey.

Chairman of Organization for Fighting Against Baseless Armenian Allegations expressed his content on the reply of ECHR and said, â€œThe court asks us for documents about Sargsyan. As an addition to the documents we already have, we asked Azerbaijanâ€™s Consulate General to Kars to provide us more documents if they have. When documents arrive, we will prepare our application in the shortest term and we will present them to the court.â€

He added that Sargsyan should be held accountable for the massacre in Khojaly in Azerbaijan.

â€œWe believe that the European Court of Human Rights will make a fair decision. Sargsyan was the commander of the Armenian armed forces which committed massacre in Khojaly in 1992. He ordered Armenian armed forces to commit a massacre and he also participated in that. The blood of the victims of Khojaly massacre has not dried yet. 1.2 million Azerbaijani citizen had to flee their homeland as displaced persons in that period. Because of these, Sargsyan should be tried in ECHR,â€ he added.