Today is the 32nd anniversary of the events in Khojaly. what really happened

For 32 years now, Azerbaijani propaganda has spared no effort to "prove" and convince the world community that Armenians committed genocide in Khojaly (Ivanyan). Azerbaijan and Turkey have even established a special day to commemorate the innocent victims - "Azerbaijani Genocide Day". The main goal of the Azerbaijani state propaganda machine is that they want to put a sign of equality between the slaughter, violence, and displacement of Armenians by Turkish terrorists in Sumgait, Baku, Kirovabad and other Azerbaijani settlements.

What really happened on February 26, 1992?

From the first days of the war unleashed against Nagorno-Karabakh, the cities of Shushi, Aghdam, Khojaly, Malibeil and other Azerbaijani settlements surrounding Stepanakert became firing points that kept the capital of Artsakh and the nearby Armenian villages under round-the-clock shelling.

The only airport connecting Artsakh with the outside world was located in Khojaly, which the Azerbaijanis had turned into a military headquarters.

On February 26, 1992, the self-defense forces of Nagorno-Karabakh undertook the destruction of Khojaly firing points. Before starting the attack, the Armenians, acting in accordance with the provisions of the Geneva Convention, urged the residents to leave the city and exit the blockade through the humanitarian corridor along the Karkar River. The residents of Khojaly used that corridor, and the Armenian soldiers on the other side of the corridor did not open fire on them.

Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev wrote about those days. "Having familiarized myself with the geographical location, I can say with all certainty that the claims about the absence of the Armenian corridor are groundless. There was indeed a corridor, otherwise the Khojalvets, completely surrounded and isolated from the outside world, would not have been able to break through the ring and get out of the encirclement. However, the stream of refugees split up beyond the Karkar river, and, for some reason, some of the refugees were directed, or more precisely, directed by some persons in another direction. It seemed that the battalions of the People's Front of Azerbaijan were not striving for the liberation of the Khojalyvets, but for shedding more blood on the way to overthrowing Mutalibov. The strange and annoying thing is that under heavy fire from the Armenians, our helicopters, which had a hard time reaching the Aghdam gates, hurriedly transported the livestock and not the residents who were somehow saved and arrived here. Who had given them such a terrifying task? Armenians":

The author of this article was arrested and convicted on the charge of "insulting the residents of Khojaly". After the arrest, new charges were brought, and in 2007 at the end of October, Fatullaev was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison. Later, those testimonies were officially considered "liar" and "treasonous".

Making Khojaly an object of speculation, the Azerbaijanis, more precisely, the People's Front (led by Elchibey), and later, the father and son Aliyev, discredited and removed the current president Ayaz Mutalibov from power in order to take over the coveted seat of the country's president, then in Baku, Sumgait, Kirovabad, Maragha, other cities of Azerbaijan. In order to create a counterbalance to the genocide against the Armenian population in the settlements, they made false accusations against the Armenians that, allegedly, they also made a massacre in the village of Khojalu.

The following actually happened.

The analysis of the words of the first president of Azerbaijan, Ayaz Mutalibov, shows that the representatives of the opposition People's Front located in Aghdam deliberately misled the residents of Khojalu and the retreating military groups, directing them instead of Aghdam to the Armenian village of Nakhijevanik, supposedly "liberated" by the Azerbaijanis.

After clashing with the self-defense forces of the village and killing dozens of victims, the panic-stricken Azerbaijanis fled to Aghdam. It was near Aghdam that mass murders of Azerbaijanis took place at the hands of their own people who received a special assignment. This area is 3.5 kilometers from Aghdam and 11 kilometers from Khojaly, until the end of July 1993 it was under the constant control of the Azerbaijani armed forces. Needless to say, the presence of Armenian troops in that area was impossible. The Azerbaijani soldiers confused their retreating soldiers and residents of Khojalu with the attacking Armenians and took them under fire. After that, the people's front people freely "adapted" the corpses to their goals.