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SARAJEVO, February 26 (FENA) - Commemorating the memory of the victims of Khojaly and Srebrenica is a moral duty of everyone living on the Earth, so that the pain of crimes committed in the world history, the acts of genocide committed against humanity, peace, democratic order, are not forgotten, believes Javanshir Feyziyev, Member of Parliament of Azerbaijan.
In his article, entitled “Khojaly-Srebrenica: Fraternal Sadness”, Mr. Feyziyev draws a parallel between what happened in Srebrenica in July 1995 and in the Azerbaijani region Nagorno-Karabakh in February 1992.
Reminding of the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict, Mr. Feyziyev writes that the most tragic page of the Karabakh war was the complete eradication of Khojaly, a city of 7,000 inhabitants. Over the night of February 25-26, 1992, Armenian units attacked the city of Khojaly, which had been blockaded for several weeks.
“Trying to escape in the frosty winter night, civilians were pursued and under intensive fire on the roads and in the forests. The city was completely burnt and destroyed. As a result of the Khojaly genocide, 613 Khojaly inhabitants, including 63 children, 106 women, 70 elderly, were killed, 8 families were completely destroyed, 25 children lost both parents and 130 children lost one of their parents. 487 people were injured, including 76 children, and 1,275 were captured. The fate of 150 prisoners, including 68 women and 26 children, is still unknown,” Mr. Feyziyev stresses.
As the article further reads, in accordance with the provisions of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by United Nations General Assembly in 1948, all the features characterizing criminal cases as genocide can be seen in the tragedy of Khojaly. The criterion such as killing for ethnicity, killing using torture and predicting the massacre mentioned in the Convention constitute the essence of Khojaly events. The Khojaly massacre, which combines intolerance, ethnic-religious discrimination, purposeful ethnic cleansing, and unbelievable tortures, is a true act of genocide. To date, more than 10 countries have recognized the Khojaly massacre as a genocide.
“At the time of all these events, the world was silent and did not react to Azerbaijanis scream. Neglecting the calls by some states to refrain from violence, Armenian has also ignored the UN four resolutions adopted in 1993 on immediate and unconditional withdrawal from all occupied territories of Azerbaijan. These resolutions have been unfulfilled today. Enamoured of Armenian lobby’s propaganda Europe fell silent, no power was found to say “stop” and to force occupier to stop,” Mr. Feyziyev says, adding that those who planned and directly participated in these events were never charged on these crimes.
Speaking of war in BiH, the Azerbaijani lawmaker stresses that, showing indifference about the occupation of Karabakh and the Khojaly genocide, Europe also kept silence with regard to the glowing disaster in its territory.
“The resolution adopted by the UN Security Council in April 1993 showed deep concern over the events in Srebrenica and its surrounding areas, but no attempt was made by the international community to stop the massacre in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1995, a genocide act committed in the center of democratic Europe, in Srebrenica, showed that nothing was learned from bitter lessons of history, and the state-level chauvinism, national-religious discrimination, and violence arose again. This act of inhuman treatment and unacceptability of justification has been written in the history as a genocide committed in Europe since World War II. Srebrenica bringing together the features and atrocity symptoms of Khojaly genocide committed in Azerbaijan just two and a half years before this massacre turned into Khojaly of Europe. Since then, Khojaly and Srebrenica have been commemorated in both countries as 'fraternal sadness' of humanity,” Mr. Feyziyev stresses.
There is no doubt, he believes, that recognition of the Srebrenica genocide as a universal tragedy of humanity and the adequate approach by the world community to it is of great importance to prevent the bitter consequences of chauvinism, discrimination and all forms of intolerance on the planet.
“This grief cannot be forgotten. Not to forget the pain of crimes committed in the world history, the acts of genocide committed against humanity, peace, democratic order; and commemorating the memory of the victims of Khojaly and Srebrenica is a moral duty of everyone living on the Earth,” stated, among other things, the Member of Parliament of Azerbaijan, Javanshir Feyziyev, in his article.
(FENA)
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