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Information was circulated in Azerbaijani media, allegedly, in honor of the memory of victims of Aghdam events that took place in 1992, the footballers of Spanish "Atletico Madrid" football club were to come to the meeting with the "Osasuna" and "Real Madrid" teams with black crape bands on their hands." However, during the game there were neither crape bands, nor even ordinary black bandages on the hands of the "Atletico" footballers.

According to the Azerbaijani news portal "Haqqin.az", there was not even a minute of silence.

In this regard portal lays claims to Hafiz Mammadov, Azerbaijani oligarch. "What can we say about a man who spends millions of dollars on t-shirts of football clubs but is unable to oblige a club to respect his own country, even for money? There is nothing to say ..." complains the Azerbaijani website.

On February 26, 1992, during the war in Karabakh, around 200 to 300 people (according to Human Right Watch, and 600 according to the version propagated by Azerbaijan) were killed in unknown circumstances near the city of Aghdam. They have been deliberately withheld by the Azerbaijani authorities in the midst of the military actions. Population of the village of Khojalu, which was one of the firing points shooting at the blockaded Stepanakert (among five others) was kept in the village for months by force and was not evacuated by the authorities of Azerbaijan deliberately, in order to use them as human shields later.

Residents of Khojalu coming out through the humanitarian corridor, that the self-defense forces of NKR had left open, freely passed more than 10 km and reached the Aghdam city controlled by the Azerbaijani troops. Later, not far from the positions of Azerbaijani troops dead bodies of the villagers were found. The exact death toll remains unknown as the official Baku publishes data contradicting each other. Parliamentary Commission investigating the tragic death of the civilians at Aghdam city was dissolved by the order of Heydar Aliyev, the investigative materials are kept secret.

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