MFA spokesperson shares post on Aghdaban massacre

“31 years have passed since Aghdaban massacre by Armenia against Azerbaijanis,” Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Aykhan Hajizada said on Twitter, Report informs.

“Aghdaban with 130 houses was completely burnt down, 779 civilians tortured. 39 people were killed with special cruelty (8 people aged 90–100, 2 babies and 7 women were cremated alive, 2 went missing,” he tweeted.

On the night of April 8, 1992, Armenians completely burnt and razed to the ground the Aghdaban village of Kalbajar region, consisting of 130 houses. Giving the legal and political assessment to the tragedy for the first time, national leader Heydar Aliyev named Aghdaban events the greatest crime against humanity and described it as a shame to all humanity.