Mikhail Gusman: Azerbaijan does its best to bring attention to Khojaly massacre

Azerbaijan is doing its best to bring the world’s important attention to the issue of Khojaly massacre and the results of this work are already visible, First Deputy Director General of ITAR-TASS Mikhail Gusman told media in Baku prior to the 16th meeting of the Council of Heads of State News Agencies of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS Information Council) in Baku on Monday.
According to Gusman, Khojaly is a grief not only of Azerbaijan, but entire Turkic world. "Extreme cruelty, which was subjected to genocide in Khojaly, horrified the world. Everyone who knows and remembers those terrible days should not remain indifferent to this tragedy," he said.
Gusman said that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be resolved on the basis of UN Security Council resolutions. "The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has made great efforts to resolve the Karabakh conflict in favor of Azerbaijan,” he stressed.
The Khojaly Massacre was the killing of hundreds of ethnic Azerbaijani civilians from the town of Khojaly on 25–26 February 1992 by the Armenian and, partially, by CIS armed forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. According to the Azerbaijani side, as well as Memorial Human Rights Center, Human Rights Watch and other international observers, the massacre was committed by the ethnic Armenian armed forces, reportedly with help of the Russian 366th Motor Rifle Regiment, apparently not acting on orders from the command. The death toll provided by Azerbaijani authorities is 613 civilians, including 106 women and 83 children. The event became the largest massacre in the course of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The Khojaly Massacre was described by Human Rights Watch as "the largest massacre to date in the conflict" over Nagorno-Karabakh.

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