At an event, organized in Turkish Gazi University by the Professor Aygun Attar, which was dedicated to Aghdam events of 1992, students that were present at the hall showed a disdain towards the Azerbaijani MP Pashayeva, Azerbaijani news portal “AzNews.az” reports.
While the Azerbaijani MP was giving a speech, the students began to argue with her. Caught in a desperate situation, confused Pashayeva was forced to interrupt her speech, after which the students began shouting insults from their places.
In an interview given to “AzNews.az” the MP stated that students’ indignation was not directed against her, but against the university leadership.
On February 26, 1992, during the war in Karabakh, around 200 to 300 people (according to Human Rights Watch, and 600 according to the version propagated by Azerbaijan) were killed in unknown circumstances near the city of Aghdam. They have been deliberately withheld by the Azerbaijani authorities in the midst of the military actions. Population of the village of Khojalu, which was one of the firing points shooting at the blockaded Stepanakert (among five others) was kept in the village for months by force and was not evacuated by the authorities of Azerbaijan deliberately, in order to use them as human shields later.
Residents of Khojalu coming out through the humanitarian corridor, that the self-defense forces of NKR had left open, freely passed more than 10 km and reached the Aghdam city controlled by the Azerbaijani troops. Later, not far from the positions of Azerbaijani troops dead bodies of the villagers were found. The exact death toll remains unknown as the official Baku publishes data contradicting each other.
Parliamentary Commission investigating the tragic death of the civilians at Aghdam city was dissolved by the order of Heydar Aliyev, the investigative materials are kept secret.
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