From: han@anadolu.michigan.com (hasan.b.mutlu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe
Subject: Recalling In Sorrow The Victims Of The Azeri Genocide.
Date: 14 Apr 92 03:29:00 GMT



        News.....

        The Age...Melbourne...6/3/92

        By Helen WOMACK  .... Agdam, Azerbaijan, Thursday

        The exact number of victims is still unclear,  but there can be 
        little  doubt that Azeri civilians were massacred  by  Armenian 
        fighters in the snowy mountains of Nagorno-Karabakh last week. 

        Refugees  from the enclave town of Khojaly,  sheltering in  the 
        Azeri border town of Agdam, give largely consistent accounts of 
        how  their  enemies  attacked their homes on the  night  of  25 
        February,    chased  those  who  fled  and  shot  them  in  the 
        surrounding forests. Yesterday, I saw 75  freshly dug graves in 
        one  cemetery  in  addition to four mutilated corpses  we  were 
        shown in the mosque when we arrived in Agdam late on Tuesday. I 
        also  saw women and children with bullet wounds in a  makeshift 
        hospital in a string of railway carriages. 

        Khojaly, an Azeri settlement in the enclave mostly populated by 
        Armenians,  had a population of about 6000. Mr.  Rashid Mamedov 
        Commander of Police in Agdam,  said  only about 500  escaped to 
        his  town.    "So where are the rest?".  Some might have  taken 
        prisoner, he said, or fled. Many bodies were still lying in the 
        mountains  because  the  Azeris were short  of  helicopters  to 
        retrieve them. He believed more than 1000 had perished, some of 
        cold in temperatures as low as minus 10 degrees. 

        One  refugee,  Rami Nasiru,  described how Khojaly residents at 
        first thought the attack was no more than the routine  shooting 
        to  which they had become accustomed in four years of conflict. 
        But  when  they  saw the Armenians with  a  convoy  of  armored 
        personnel carriers, they realised they could not hope to defend 
        themselves  with  machineguns and grenades,  and fled into  the 
        forests. In the small hours, the massacre started. 

        Mr.  Nasiru,  who believes his wife and two children were taken 
        prisoner,   repeated what many other refugees have said -  that 
        troops of the former Soviet army helped the Armenians to attack 
        Khojaly. "It is not my opinion, I saw it with my own eyes." 

        ..........

   Milliyet, 2 March 1992; Page 1.  by Altan OYMEN

  Title: 'Massacre?' OVER THERE

"There were conflicting news about the Azeri-Armenian fights in Karabag
for a long time. While the Azeri sources claimed Armenians as aggressors,
most of western press was writing just the opposite. Especially in some
French newspapers..  French Government was being  called to take action
to save 'poor Armenians' from `aggressive Azeris.'"

The voice of truth against this Forgery has come from  British newspapers.
The British journalists who went to the region told about what is
happening there.
 
Here is what Sunday Times printed on First Page with photographs:

	'ARMENIAN SOLDIERS ANNIHILATING ESCAPING FAMILIES'

A few lines from the text of the news:

	''Armenian soldiers killed more than 450 Azeris, mostly women and
	children, by bullets and bayonets. The victims were escaping from
	the attack on their cities to save their lives. Hundreds, perhaps
	thousands of people are lost or killed (..) The Massacre was realized
	in a pass where 1500 people were surrounded by Armenian soldiers,
	on wednesday morning.''

The journalist Thomas Goltz, is not only writing based on eyewitness
information, at the same time the bloody pictures of people who somehow
survived this massacre are being given. Their stories as eye-witnesses
are also included.

In this way in front of the eyes of the world public a 1992 model
`Massacre' is being presented with witnesses and documents.

The people responsible for the unfortunate events which occurred during
a world war 77 years before are no longer alive. However, the ones
responsible for this massacre are available: They are wandering around
in Karabag and its environs in the form of `Armenian Soldier.'

Hasan B-) Mutlu

                     'Kill Turks and Kurds wherever you find them 
                      and in whatever circumstances you find them. 
                      Turkish children also should be killed as 
                      they form a danger to the Armenian nation.' 
                                     (Hamparsum Boyadjian - 1914)

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