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3 February 2012 / TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
A Pakistani senate commission has labeled the mass killings of Azerbaijanis two decades ago during fierce clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh as genocide.
The foreign relations committee of the Pakistani senate strongly condemned the massacre in 1992 of Azerbaijanis in the town of Khojaly, recognizing the mass slaughter as genocide.
The war over the predominantly ethnic-Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan ended in 1994, leaving 30,000 dead and more than 1 million displaced. Since then, talks to resolve one of the most worrisome "frozen conflicts" in the former Soviet Union have dragged on, with the enclave controlled by Armenian and separatist forces.
In the Communist era, Nagorno-Karabakh was an autonomous region within Soviet Azerbaijan. Ethnic Armenians now account for virtually the entire population in the enclave after forcefully driving out nearly a million Azerbaijanis from Nagorno-Karabakh and the seven adjacent provinces.
One of the bloodiest phases of the war was the 1992 Khojaly massacre, when 613 Azerbaijani civilians were killed in a single night in a deliberate and systemic fashion by Armenian forces.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry released a statement welcoming the move, pointing out that the bill also calls on Armenia to withdraw its troops from occupied territories without any preconditions. Armenia currently occupies 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory.
Pakistani senate commission recognizes killings of Azeris as genocide
A Pakistani senate commission has labeled the mass killings of Azerbaijanis two decades ago during fierce clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh as genocide.
The foreign relations committee of the Pakistani senate strongly condemned the massacre in 1992 of Azerbaijanis in the town of Khojaly, recognizing the mass slaughter as genocide.
The war over the predominantly ethnic-Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan ended in 1994, leaving 30,000 dead and more than 1 million displaced. Since then, talks to resolve one of the most worrisome "frozen conflicts" in the former Soviet Union have dragged on, with the enclave controlled by Armenian and separatist forces.
In the Communist era, Nagorno-Karabakh was an autonomous region within Soviet Azerbaijan. Ethnic Armenians now account for virtually the entire population in the enclave after forcefully driving out nearly a million Azerbaijanis from Nagorno-Karabakh and the seven adjacent provinces.
One of the bloodiest phases of the war was the 1992 Khojaly massacre, when 613 Azerbaijani civilians were killed in a single night in a deliberate and systemic fashion by Armenian forces.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry released a statement welcoming the move, pointing out that the bill also calls on Armenia to withdraw its troops from occupied territories without any preconditions. Armenia currently occupies 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory.
Pakistani senate commission recognizes killings of Azeris as genocide
