Khojaly resident Salim Musayev, a living witness of the tragedy, spoke to the students at the memorial event held at Azerbaijan University on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the Khojaly genocide. Salim Musayev reported facts about the atrocities committed by armenians against civilians in Khojaly on the night of February 25-26, 1992.

At the event initiated by the Student Youth Organization of Azerbaijan University, the chairman of the organization Rasul Dadashov, the head of the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy in Political Sciences Elvin Talyshinski, the guest of the event, the chairman of the Student Youth Organization of the Academy of Labor and Social Relations Omer Sarkhanly also spoke and brought to the attention of the facts related to the horrors of the genocide and informed about the results of the international awareness campaign “Justice for Khojaly”. It was mentioned in the speeches that our people will never forget this tragedy written in blood in their history. On September 19-20, 2023, the city of Khojaly was cleared of separatists as a result of the local anti-terrorist measures carried out by the Azerbaijani Army in Karabakh. On October 15, President Ilham Aliyev erected the State Flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Khojaly. The waving of the Azerbaijani flag in Khojaly once again demonstrates that the blood of the genocide victims has not gone unavenged.

It should be noted that during the Khojaly genocide, 613 people were killed, and 1,000 civilians of various ages were disabled from gunshot wounds. 106 women, 63 minor children, and 70 elderly people were killed, 8 families were completely destroyed, 25 children lost both parents, and 130 people lost one of their parents. On the night of the tragedy, 1275 civilians were taken hostage, the fate of 150 of them is still unknown.

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