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Musician Valekh Huseynov, one of the main heroes of “Endless Corridor,” an Azerbaijani propagandistic film about the Aghdam events, “ekes out a miserable existence,” Azerbaijani news agency Turan reports.

According to the report, the veteran’s salary is 150 manats a month.

As a result, Huseynov and his family of seven, including three children and two old parents, “are badly in need.”
Among other problems, the veteran has fallen in a credit bondage having to take one credit to pay up another, a bigger one, Turan writes. “Friends and acquaintances helped me to hold a charity concert and gather a little money. However, the lack of other incomes and the child’s illness forced me to turn to the banks again,” Huseynov told Turan.

Both Huseynov’s father and child are ill, and he himself was diagnosed to have a severe form of diabetes.
His employers in Azerbaijan refused to help him and called him an “ungrateful and unworthy person.”

The veteran notes a typical trait of his country’s policy of spending enormous resources on the recognition of Aghdam events as “genocide,” while dozens and hundreds of people, whose lives are used to propagate that myth, are forced to eke out a miserable existence in poverty and in credits.

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 Khojaly, 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 Khojaly coming out through the humanitarian corridor, that the self-defence 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.