Kalbajar residents visit Aghdaban for first time in 30 years

Today, a group of residents of the Kalbajar district visited the village of Aghdaban for the first time in 30 years, Report informs.

They visited the territories where Armenians committed massacres in Aghdaban and the graves of those killed during the Aghdaban massacre.

In addition, the participants went to the Alley of Martyrs, where the martyrs of Aghdaban village are buried. They witnessed the atrocities committed by Armenians in Aghdaban and Kalabajar.

On the night of April 8, 1992, Armenians completely burnt and razed to the ground the Aghdaban village, which consisted of 130 houses. 779 civilians of the village were subjected to inhuman tortures, 67 people were killed, 8 people aged 90 to 100, 2 minors, and 7 women were burnt alive.

The destruction of the manuscripts of poet Aghdabanli Gurban and one of the masters of classic ashug poetry Dede Shamshir is yet another manifestation of the continuation of the vandalism policy committed by Armenians against Azerbaijan's cultural heritage.

Giving the legal and political assessment to the tragedy for the first time, national leader Heydar Aliyev named the Aghdaban events the greatest crime against humanity and described it as a shame to all humanity.