“Thirty-four years ago on this day, Artsakh’s self-defense forces carried out an operation to suppress fire at the Ivanyan (Khojaly) firing points,” recalls NA MP Tigran Abrahamyan.
“The mercenaries who had been constantly shelling Stepanakert and surrounding settlements were withdrawn, as were the weapons—Grad multiple launch rocket systems, Alazan launchers, artillery, and armored vehicles—that regularly shelled civilians.
Following this operation, after civilians fled territories under Azerbaijani control through the humanitarian corridor to Aghdam provided by the Armenians, some were tortured and killed by Azerbaijanis as a result of internal political clashes.
This event became one of the most shameful pages in Azerbaijan’s modern history. Hostility and hatred within the country led to crimes against its own people.” Although Azerbaijanis later attempted to overcome their national shame by attributing some of the incidents to Armenians, it was too late, as as early as 1992, various international journalists and documentary filmmakers documented the crime and location committed by Azerbaijanis, and it remains a stigma on the faces of Azerbaijanis to this day.