Novye Izvestia, an online newspaper in Russia, has published an article on the 30th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide, Report informs.
The article covers many pages of the "bloody" twentieth century - two world wars, hundreds of local conflicts, the Holocaust, the Holodomor, revolutions, etc.
However, the massacre of civilians in the Azerbaijani city of Khojaly on February 26, 1992, has a special place in the list of crimes against humanity.
Stressing that 613 civilians, including more than a hundred women, 63 children and 70 older people, were killed in the terrible night of February 25-26, the author quotes Professor Yuri Pompeyev, author of the books "Karabakh Diary" and "Bloody Pool of Karabakh": "This was a massacre. Unarmed, peaceful people were killed. Many of them had children in arms."
At the same time, the article noted how the correspondent Thomas Goltz described what he saw in the hospital: "We witnessed women and children in the hospital who were shot. At the same time, they had multiple stab wounds on their bodies."
According to the newspaper, although 30 years have passed since the tragedy, no one can clarify the reasons for the massacre.