"Residents of Khojaly are attending the opening of this Memorial Complex today. Almost every one of them has lost their loved ones, family members, and relatives, and has lived with this pain and sorrow for many years," President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said during his meeting with the representatives of the Khojaly district community, APA reports.
"Those who lost their loved ones and those who lost their land and were displaced from their homeland must have had tremendous willpower to endure all this — and they truly did. Because what kept them going was faith, faith in justice, faith in the state, and faith in our army.
Today, this Memorial Complex is an embodiment of the unbending spirit of the Azerbaijani people. Because for such a long time — i.e., the Khojaly genocide was one of the bloodiest crimes of the 20th century and our people were subjected to it — our people, despite facing injustice for 30 years, preserved their identity, preserved their dignity, and preserved their faith. As we are gathered for the opening of this Memorial Complex, we say again that the state of Azerbaijan is so strong today that no one should even think of committing any provocation against us. Azerbaijan is no longer what it used to be in 1992. Our state is a strong state today; it is a state capable of defending itself. Over the past 80 years, there has not been another state in the world that would have achieved such a complete and absolute victory as we did. Today, we live in peace, and the guarantor of this is the state of Azerbaijan and our policy," President Ilham Aliyev noted.
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