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Azerbaijani propaganda once again made an unsuccessful attempt to hold another event on the 23rd anniversary of the events in Aghdam, this time in Denmark, witnesses having shot a video of it told Panorama.am.

In a factually empty square and with evident indifference of the passers-by the representatives of Azerbaijani and Turkish diaspora chanted slogans and demonstrated photos of those killed during the events in the Balkans, presenting them as the “victims of Khojalu.”

Remarkably, the propaganda product that the organizers used during the event was thrown into the trash bins near the square and trampled under people’s feet after the event. 

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, which the self-defense forces of NKR had left open, freely passed more than 10 km and reached 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.