PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV ATTENDS KHOJALY GENOCIDE COMMEMORATIVE CEREMONY

Baku, February 26 (AzerTAc). President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today attended a commemorative ceremony on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide.

The Head of State laid a wreath at the monument to victims of the Khojaly massacre,
paying respect to them.
The ceremony was also attended by Prime Minister Artur Rasizadeh, Milli Majlis
Speaker Ogtay Asadov, Head of the Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev, other
state and government officials, Milli Majlis deputies, ministers, heads of
committees and companies, leaders of religious confessions as well as Khojaly
massacre survivors.
On the night between February 25 and 26, 1992, the Armenian military units supported
by the former Soviet regiment no.366 deployed in Khankendi assaulted the city of
Khojali and subjected the civilians to massacre. Up to 613 dwellers of the ruined
Khojali city were murdered. The death toll included 106 women and 83 children. 56
men were slaughtered with extreme brutality. 1275 people were taken hostages and 155
people are still missing.