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The site Xocali.net http://xocali.net/ru/n22.html goes on revealing the falsifications of Azerbaijani propaganda over the events in Aghdam in 1992.

As the site points out, at that time, in 1992, when the memory was fresh and the opportunities to do immediate survey and to create lists of survivors and the dead during the events in Aghdam, it wasn't done. In these days, 20 years later, after this tragedy, Azerbaijan has started to shoot movies, take out so called ‘some archive’ documents and to record eyewitnesses’ accounts.

For example, the “ATV International” television channel film “There, Where the Sun Died Out”, shot in 2012, is positioned as documentary. In the film a “survived Khojalian woman” shares her memories, particularly noting, “Armenians shot my husband, Elmar Akhmedov…”

Taking into consideration the fact that full list of dead names was published in 1992 by Khava Mamedova in the book “Khojaly: Shakhids and Shekhids”, the name of the alleged ‘husband’ can be easily compared with the list of the Azerbaijani side. The name of Elmar Akhmedov is really mentioned in the list under number 126; however, for the date of 26 February 1992 the above mentioned Elmar Akhmedov was only 6 years old. In the same list of Khava Mamedova is also listed Akhmedov Eldar Naib oglu, who was at an age that he could supposedly be somebody’s husband.

But here arises quite a reasonable question: doesn’t the wife know her husband’s name, calling him Elmar instead of Eldar? Or maybe the falsification was made back in 1992, when these lists were created, and adult sexually matured man, husband and father could have been presented as 6-year-old boy to extend the list of children?

It’s due of ascertaining that this is a vivid example of how myths are legalized, and usual manipulation of mass consciousness takes place expecting that nobody is going to check, compare and analyze.

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.