Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 25 / Trend , J. Babayeva/
Azerbaijani students in Izmir and the Azerbaijani House and Solidarity Society will mark the 17th anniversary of the Khojali Genocide, the Azerbaijani State Committee for Diasporas told Trend .
Videos and photos about the genocide will be shown at the Ataturk Lyceum on Feb. 26.
Ege University professors will read a report on the "Armenian Issue from Past to Future" and additional information about the Karabakh War.
The students will put on a performance about the genocide.
On the night of Feb. 25, 1992, Armenian separatists seized the Khojali settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Within hours, over 600 unarmed Azerbaijani citizens were killed. Among them were 106 women and 83 children. The massacre continued for days, while the Armenian separatists killed their hostages and cut the heads off of Azerbaijani military personnel. A total of 487 people were left disabled and 1,275 people were taken prisoner. The fate of 150 people remains unknown.
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