Well known in USA Armenian web site asbarez.com once again was caught in the falsification

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Marina Grigoryan published an article «Sumgait, February 1988: A Crime With No Limitation», in which Azerbaijani children killed in Khojaly were presented as Armenian "victims of the Sumgait massacre 1988". Khojaly genocide (1992) was perpetrated by Armenian military and gangs against unarmed civilians in the Azerbaijani town     Khojaly (http://justiceforkhojaly.org/site/?p=quotation)

Below is the list of falsifications, misinforming and forgeries in Marina Grygoryan's article «Sumgait, February 1988: A Crime With No Limitation”:

1.M. Grigoryan asserts that more than 100 Armenians were killed during one night in Sumgait riots. M. Grigoryan is distorting the truth: according to USSR Prosecutor-General's Office Criminal Case No 18/55461-88 during Sumgait riots 32 people were murdered: 6 Azeris and 26 Armenians. Yet, Sumgait pogroms were not only the result of spontaneous hooliganism of Azerbaijani refugees from Armenia. The USSR court investigation shows that Sumgait pogroms had been well planned by Armenian separatists.

It was established that in January-February 1988, i.e. before riots, many Armenians who lived in Karabakh  phoned to their relatives in Sumgait to warn them  about future unrest and convince them to leave the city. At the same time  Armenians  withdrew 143 064 roubles from 14 banks operating in the city.

According to court materials one of the provocateurs of Sumgait pogroms and the key leader was ethnic Armenian Eduard Grigoryan. The USSR court has clearly established that Eduard Grigoryan and his brothers maintained contacts with emissaries from Nagorno-Karabakh and received from them the addresses of Armenians who rejected Armenian separatism and refused to donate money to their funds. E. Grigoryan pretended to be an Azerbaijani refugee from Armenia, he distributed alcoholic drinks and narcotic substances among Azerbaijani refugees, teenagers and various criminal elements, directed them with the slogans of "Karabakh is Ours" and "Kill the Armenians" towards the homes of those Armenians who had refused to pay money to the Karabakh (committee) and Krunk (society) organizations. Both Karabakh and Krunk were organizations, which worked to fuel hatred between Azeris and Armenians and for separating Karabakh from Azerbaijan. E. Grigoryan actively participated in looting and other crimes and personally killed six (6) Armenians.

Armenian separatists used Sumgait riots to launch an anti-Azerbaijani propaganda campaign and “encourage” other Armenians to join the war for secession of Karabakh by disseminating  the idea that many of Sumgait Armenians would survive if they would support Krunk.

All the above information given about Sumgait pogroms is based on materials of court USSR Prosecutor-General's Office Criminal Case No 18/55461-88 represented on http://www.sumqait.com/en/delo/

The cases when Armenian nationalists kill ethnic Armenians who do not want to support separatists/terrorists activities are well known. Here is for example the quote from The Dashnaksyutun Armenian Federative Revolution Party program which orders “to kill Turk, Kurd and Armenian traitors who broke their word, avenge everywhere, in any situation!”
Sumgait riots became an  Armenian propaganda tool in  presenting Azerbaijanis to the world community as  barbaric people and  forming  the idea that it is impossible to co-exist with them, therefore the separation of Karabakh is necessary.

2.    M. Grigoryan presents the photos of sisters Aysel and Gyulmira Mehdiyeva brutally murdered by Armenian military and gangs in February 1992. The Author asserts that those two children are “Armenian victims of Sumgait riots”. This is not the first time when Armenian web site asbarez.com is misinforming the international community.

3.    In the article "Remembering Black January and the Massacre of Baku’s Armenians" Asbarez  presented the photo of  young Russian girl Vera Bessantina as "an Armenian, who was murdered at home during the genocide" in Baku. In fact, Vera Bessantina  and other victims on this photo died on January 20, 1990 when Soviet Army  invaded Baku and was indiscriminately shooting at everyone  on the streets, at windows , on balconies, causing death of innocent children, women, and elderly in their own homes. (material and screenshots here). 

4.    The other Armenian site Tert.am published the same photos and affirmed that these two girls are “Armenian victims  of Baku riots 1990”
(see “Today 21th anniversary of Genocide of Armenians in Baku” (our material about it and screenshots from Tert.am).

However, the validity check showed that Armenian media is misinforming the international community and these photogaphic images has connection neither with Sumgait nor Baku.

The original forensic photography of two sisters is on the site of the State Commission of Azerbaijan on Prisoners of War and Missing Persons
http://www.human.gov.az/image.php?img=MzUx; http://www.human.gov.az/image.php?img=MzUy
Obviously, M. Grigoryan used photos from this site for her forgery.

The real story behind original photos:

Mehdiyeva Aysel Murad kizi was born in 1988, Mehdiyeva Gyulmira Murad kizi was born in 1989 in Khojaly.

Both children were shot to death near the village of Nakhichevanik where Azerbaijani civilians tried to flee after the capture of Khojaly by Armenian bandits February 26, 1992. To that time, Aysel was 4 years old. Her sister Gyulmira was just 3.

Here is how a mother of two girls - Nana Aliyeva recalls that horrible night:
"- Murad (Nana's husband, and Aysel and Gyulmira’s father), returned from his military observation post, pulled us out of the basement. I did not even go to the house. Children and I ran barefoot in the woods. My father-in-law’s Shafa took Aysel, and I carried a five-month son Arzu. Our group consisted of more than one hundred fifty people. Valleys, hills were full of dead bodies. Early in the morning of 26 February we crossed the motorway in vicinity of Nakhichevanik. Only few people from our group survived. The armored vehicle came and blocked the way. Murad shouted, "Lie down!" I pressed Arzu to my chest and covered the child with my body by making sure that bullet will heat me, not him.
Armed Armenians came down from armored vehicle and began firing at us. I pressed Arzu to my chest and crawled to Murad: if one should die – one should die together. Murad was killed. At last moment he tried to reach out to me. He wanted to say something. But he could not. Shafa and Aysel were killed too. Only I, my sister Rose, my five-month son Arzu, country woman Shahnaz survived from the group of one hundred and fifty people. Armenians took us as captives to Askeran. Two days later we were released. Although a friend of Murad - Elman, took my daughter Gyulmira to his arms to save her, Armenians killed them both.... "

That night, vandals killed Aysel and Gyulmira, their father named Murad, their grandfather Shafa Mehdiyev. Aysel was found later along with her grandfather Shafa, both dead - grandfather was holding his granddaughter. The body of another sister Gyulmira, was found in Ketiks forest, near to Nakhichevanik by the Azerbaijani journalist Chingiz Mustafayev. The whole country saw the footage of Chingiz holding bodies of two young girls.

One of them was Gyulmira Murad kizi (Murad's daughter) Mehdiyeva. It is still not known who was the other girl... no one was able to identify her, since the Armenian fascists beheaded the child, gouged out her eyes and killed her parents and other relatives. Khojaly survivors named her “Nishane of Khojaly” (Sign of Khojaly).

Gyulmira Mehdiyeva is buried in the Alley of Martyrs in Baku, near the tomb of Nishane of Khojaly. All these years, Gyulmira`s mother - Nana brings fresh carnations to the graves of little girls buried next to each other.

“Azerbaijan has recognized killing of civilians in Khojaly by Armenian military forces as a crime against humanity. The president of Armenia, S. Sarkisian (Sargsyan) , one of  organizers of Khojaly massacre,  stated: “Before Khojali, the Azerbaijanis thought that they were joking with us, they thought that the Armenians were people who could not raise their hand against the civilian population. We were able to break that [stereotype]. And that’s what happened.” (Black garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through peace and war, Thomas de Waal, 2003, p 172)

Yet, Armenia still denies the genocide in Khojaly, and
the false information generated by Armenian sponsored media takes it way to the news to justify the aggression of the Armenian Republic against Azerbaijan and create a puppet regime at the cost of ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijanis from Karabakh”.

Rizvan Huseynov (Translated by Samira Samadova)