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Azerbaijani media are once again spreading disinformation about Legislative assembly in Arizona Senate (US) passing a resolution which “recognizes the events in Khojaly as genocide” thus attempting to create an illusion of “victory of Azerbaijani diplomacy”.

Yet, watching the video  from the senate hearing, it becomes evident that Senator Don Shooter’s statement, read in a half-empty hall, called on “to honour the memory of the victims of the tragic events.” As it was expected, the text read lacked the word ‘genocide’.

Moreover, it’s noteworthy that it was only a proclamation, yet the Azerbaijani propaganda is trying to present it as a Senate resolution.
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.