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Book about Khojaly genocide awarded influential award in the US

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Murder in the Mountains: War Crime in Khojaly and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict a novel centered on a little known, yet significant massacre, has just been awarded the influential Latino Book Award in the United States, in the category of “best political and current affairs” book.

Sudanese Parliament recognizes Khojaly Genocide

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The Parliament of the Republic of Sudan has recognized the bloody events happened in Azerbaijan’s Khojaly town in 1992 as genocide, department head of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Hikmet Hajiyev said at a press conference today, APA reports.

Genocide in Khojaly

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On the 26th of February of 1992, the armed forces of Armenia with the supportof the Motor-Rifle Battalion 366 of the Soviet army dislocated in Khankendi occupiedthe  town and committed  genocide  against  the  Azerbaijanis.  Within  the  night  613people,  including 63 children,  106 women, 70 aged people were murdered with aspecial cruelty.