Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.1 / Trend , S.Agayeva /
Parliamentary Union of Islamic Conference has adopted a special resolution in support of the "Justice for Khojaly" campaign, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.
According to the Islamic Conference Youth Forum, the resolution was adopted at the 6th session of the Union, held in the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
The session, attended by the heads of parliaments from 51 countries, has adopted a resolution on "Cooperation between the OIC Youth Forum and the Parliamentary Union of Islamic Conference."
The Khojaly tragedy is recognized as a "mass genocide of civilians by Armenian armed forces and crime against humanity" in the resolution, submitted within the campaign Justice for Khojaly, initiated by the coordinator of the Islamic Conference Youth Forum Leyla Aliyeva.
The resolution, adopted by the Parliamentary Union of Islamic Conference, also calls for the recognition of the genocide and for international and national support of the campaign.
According to Elshad Iskenderov, general secretary of the Islamic Conference Youth Forum, the resolution is the first document which recognizes the Khojaly tragedy as "a crime against humanity."
Considering that OIC brings a quarter of the parliaments of the world together, and is the largest inter-parliamentary structure, the adoption of the resolution on Khojaly is an important step in revealing Armenian nationalists' genocide policy against the Azerbaijani people and will help hold the perpetrators of this crime criminally responsible, he said.
Armenian troops committed genocide in Khojali on Feb. 26, 1992. The tragedy began early morning. Within hours, over 613 unarmed Azerbaijani citizens were killed and among them were 106 women and 83 children. About 1,000 people were disabled by shots; eight families were fully destroyed. A total of 25 children lost both of their parents and 130 children lost one of them. About 1,275 people were taken prisoner and around 150 people went missing. Eight families were completely killed.
The "Justice for Khodjaly" international information and agitation campaign has been announced upon the initiative of ICYF-DC (Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation) for Intercultural Dialogue General Coordinator Leyla Aliyeva and started on May 8 in 2008.
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