24/02/2010 18:02
Xocali.net Project Presents a Respond to Numerous Fakes
Today the “Xenophobia Prevention Initiative” has held the Khojaly Review Conference, presenting Project of ‘Chronicles of the Unprecedented Fake and Falsifications’.
Referring to the basic facts of the issue of Khojaly, the “Xenophobia Prevention Initiative” presented the Xocali.net project (see the page on http://xocali.net), which comes as a respond to numerous false and fake statements by Azerbaijan.
This page has been put together to focus on crimes and acts of false interpretations, made in the course of the circumstances in Aghdam, when on February 26 1992 the population of Khojaly village was killed.
Azerbaijan’s media resources and various propaganda organisations release false documents on the issue of Khojaly, trying to shift the blame onto Armenian side. All these forgeries and disinformation have been exposed.
Samvel Martirosian, initiative’s author and information security expert, said at the press conference, that first acts of false interpretations were exposed when media outlets of Azerbaijan had released a picture of a ‘Killed Armenian soldier’, which actually appeared to be a Georgian soldier, killed in 2008, during the August war between Georgia and Russia.
“We investigated and brought to light a great number of falsifications,” said Samvel Martirosian.
“We’ve head, for example, that Azerbaijanis are used to carrying posters with victims of the Kosovo war, when they gather to Armenia’s embassies in different countries to hold anti-Armenian rallies. This fact will also be reflected on the project’s site.”
Besides, in the course of investigation, there were found out some 20 falsified pictures, used by the Azerbaijani media in covering the issue of Khojaly. Among them are photos of victims of the massacres of the Kurdish population in Turkey, pictures of the victims of the mass killings in Srebrenica of Bosnia and Herzegovina, pictures of children, wounded in a bus explosion in 1988. A picture of a crying woman, in fact, was shot after the earthquake and has nothing to do with the killings in Khojaly.
The Xocali.net Project is mounting a wide range of documents of relevance to the issue of Kjojaly. Included here are the “Case of Khojaly: A Special Folder” by Hike Demoyan and Levon Melik-Shakhnazarian; interviews; the article “Cattle Was Saved, People – Not” by journalist Eynulla Fatullayev (who is sentenced to imprisonment for an attempt to rethink the official position of Azerbaijan over the issue); video podcasts of interviews with the Turkish-Meskhetians, who told that despite the warnings by the Armenian side on the upcoming attacks on Khojaly and given corridor for evacuation, the Azerbaijani soldiers shot at the civil population preventing them to reach the gate to the corridor.
Some documents from Xocali.net are available in Arabic, English, French, Russian, and Azerbaijani.
To find detailed information, go to the Xocali.net web-site (here).