Armenian media presents the photographs of Azerbaijani Khojaly victims (1992) as "victims of the Armenian massacre in Baku" (1990)

На русском:  

Ходжалинские жертвы выдаются за "армянские жертвы погромов в Баку"

Pursuing propagandistic aims to reveal to the world the story about “massacre of the Armenian population” Armenian media published the article where the photographs of the Azerbaijani victims of the Khojaly genocide were presented as Armenian “victims of the January riots in Baku 1990". Khojaly genocide (1992) was perpetrated by Armenian military and gangs against unarmed civilians in the Azerbaijani  town   Khojaly. 

(http://justiceforkhojaly.org/site/?p=quotation).

The article of Armenian source entitled "The parliament of Nagorno-Karabakh appealed to the UN, EU and OSCE" reports that the Parliament of self-declared "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" which is not recognized by any state in the world made a statement devoted to the January events in Baku.


The content of the appeal and the article is an example of false information and forgery spread by Armenian propaganda:

1. Appeal states that "thousands of innocent people — women, children and old people — were killed”. This is a false information. The truth is the fact that the total number of January riots victims in Baku makes 90 persons" (Black garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through peace and war, Thomas de Waal, 2003, p 90-95).

2. In order to show the “exceptional savageness” of Azerbaijani people Armenian media submitted as evidence the photographs of "victims of the January riots in Baku 1990". It turned out that the same photographs is a factual evidence of the Khojaly genocide which perpetrated 1992 by Armenian military detachments and gangs against unarmed civilians in the Azerbaijani town Khojaly. This bloody action took lives of 600-1000 people (Human Rights Watch / Helsinki. Azerbaijan: Seven Years of Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. New York. 1994)

The origin of photos:

                                                                       Photo 1:
The bodies of Azerbaijani Khojaly victims delivered to Agdam. Photo was taken in 1992.

 

Photo 2:  

A soldier of Azerbaijan Defense Ministry shows to an Azerbaijani cameraman Chingiz Mustafayev the bodies of Azerbaijani victims mutilated by Armenian military.

  The photo was taken in 1992 near the village Nakhichevanik, where civilians tried to flee, hoping to escape from the Armenian bandits and military groups.
Armenian source removed photos as soon as the falsification was uncovered.

Rizvan Huseynov (Translated by Samira Samadova)