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Information disseminated by the Azerbaijani media allegedly at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University at the U.S. state of Massachusetts an event was held dedicated to Aghdam events taken place in 1992, turned to be false, Armenian students of the abovementioned university report Panorama.am.

According to information Professor John Cerone gave a lecture at the university, during which the lecturer mentioned nothing about the Aghdam events. The lecture was attended by 14 Armenian and 4 Azerbaijani students; 5 of Professor Cerone’s students were present too.

On February 26, 1992, during the war in Karabakh, around 200 to 300 people (according to Human Rights 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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