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Yesterday went down in history as a dark day in the tension between Azerbaijan and Armenia that intensified on September 27… The Armenian army attacked civilians last night while people were sleeping. While dozens of people lost their lives in the attack, many people were injured and many houses were destroyed. Although there was a hopeful development after this attack from Armenia that terrorized the world, this also made the world happy for a short time.
Last night a temporary humanitarian ceasefire was declared between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
While the international public declared that it attaches great importance and supports the ceasefire decision, French President Emmanuel Macron said: “We are very satisfied with the humanitarian ceasefire decision between Azerbaijan and Armenia. This ceasefire should not depend on previous conditions and should be applied by the parties. “France will closely follow this issue and we hope that hostilities will come to a complete end and that negotiations will start quickly,” he said. But Macron’s statements lost their meaning in a few hours. The ceasefire, which began at midnight on October 18, was sadly violated less than a few hours after the signatures were signed.
In the statement made by the Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense, it was stated that, despite the acceptance of a new temporary humanitarian ceasefire on October 18 at 00:00, the Armenian army once again violated the agreement in big measure.
In the statement, it was reported that the Armenian army fired mortars and artillery in the areas around Cerbayil and the liberated villages along the Araz river.
In the statement, which said there were no casualties among the soldiers, it was said that the Azerbaijani army gave the necessary response to the attacks.
It was also claimed that the Azerbaijani army controlled the entire front.
The fire started last night, but …
The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that a ceasefire decision was made with Armenia. The temporary humanitarian ceasefire went into effect on October 18 at 00:00 local time.
In the Ministry’s statement, “This decision is based on the statement of the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, dated October 1, 2020, by the presidents of the USA, France and Russia, representing the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group. The decision was taken in accordance with the Moscow declaration of October 10 ”.
The spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Anna A. Naghdalyan, on her social media account, said: “Armenia and Azerbaijan accepted the humanitarian ceasefire from 00:00 local time on October 18.”
BEFORE THEY HAVE VIOLATED
The two countries had previously declared a ceasefire, but Armenia again violated the Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement. A ceasefire decision was issued at the meeting of the foreign ministers of the two countries, which met in Moscow on October 9. However, although 8 days have passed since that decision, Armenia has repeatedly violated the ceasefire decision.
The toughest attack by the Armenian army, which attacked many civilian settlements, especially Ganja, the second largest city in Azerbaijan, occurred the night before. The Armenian army, which was targeting civilians, attacked in the middle of the night while people were sleeping. In the missile attack on Ganja and Mingachevir, 13 people, including 2 children, were killed and 52 people were injured.
Azerbaijani Vice President Hikmet Hajiyev announced that more than 40 houses were destroyed in Armenia’s missile attack on Ganja. Many civilians were buried under the rubble in the area where the missiles hit.
ALİYEV: WE KNOW THE ARMENIAN AIRPLANE
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev made important remarks in front of cameras the morning after the attack, saying: “These vicious acts will not break the will of the Azerbaijani people. Let us take revenge on the battlefield. We will never attack civilians, ”he said.
A few hours after Aliyev’s remarks, Azerbaijan announced that it had shot down the Armenian Su-25 fighter jet.
THE CAUSE OF THE TENSION IS THE ARMENIAN OCCUPATION
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Karabakh became a zone of tension between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The growing tension has been going on for more than 20 years, when the Karabakh Armenians demanded that Karabakh move from Soviet Azerbaijan to Soviet Armenia.
Nagorno-Karabakh is recognized as part of Azerbaijan by the United Nations (UN) and the international community. However, Nagorno-Karabakh and its surroundings, which account for about 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s territory, have been under Armenian occupation since the early 1990s. The Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh was declared in the region in 1991. No However, no country, including Armenia, recognized this place internationally.
The tension in the region is closely followed by the international public due to the corridor of gas and oil pipelines in the region.
BLOOD FREEZING EVENT: HOCALI MASSACRE
The Khojaly Massacre is the case of the mass murder of Azerbaijani civilians by Armenian forces that took place in the city of Khojaly in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan on February 26, 1992 during the Karabakh War.
On the night that he joined the Armenian forces on February 25, 1992, with the support of the 366th Regiment of the region, a total of 613 inhabitants, including 83 children, 106 women and more than 70 elderly people, were killed in the town of Khojaly, whose entrance and exit was closed first, according to official Azerbaijani sources. 487 people in total were seriously injured. 1,275 people were taken hostage and 150 disappeared. In examinations of the corpses, many of the corpses were found to be cremated, their eyes gouged out and their heads cut off. Pregnant women and children were also found to be exposed.
The city of Khojaly, which is one of the most important hills in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, was a major military target for the Armenian forces. The city was located on the road connecting Khankendi and Agdam and was the base for the only airport in the region. According to a Human Rights Watch report, Armenian forces were shelling the city of Khojaly because the Azerbaijani Armed Forces were using it as a base and shooting at Khankendi.
After the capture of the city of Kerkicahan, which settled around Khankendi and where Azerbaijanis lived, in December 1991, the city of Khojaly remained completely under the Armenian blockade. As of October 30, road transport was closed and the helicopter was left as the only means of transport. On November 20, 1991, after the Mi-8 helicopter was hit by Armenian forces in the skies of Hocavend and the deaths of 20 people, including several Azerbaijani state officials and Russian and Kazakh observers, air transport was also cut off. Before the occupation, Khojaly was constantly bombarded during the winter months of 1991-1992. In some cases, the shelling was clearly directed at civilian targets, refugees from Khojaly told Human Rights Watch. For several months before the attack, the city was without gas and electricity.
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