Azerbaijani organizations in Holland established a platform to inform World community on Khojaly genocide. Organizations also initiated a signature collecting campaign on December 10, on the day of Human Rights.
Platform opened a photo exhibition in Hague related to the massacre in Khojaly village of Azerbaijan committed by Armenians in 1992.
Head of the platform Gert Van Dam and Chairman of Holland Azerbaijan Turkish Culture Organization Ilhan Askin stated that they initiated a petition for carrying Khojaly issue on international platforms.
Van Dam said that they aim to inform Dutch people on the massacre of Khojaly and about 1 million Azerbaijani refugee that had to leave their homeland. “Imagine Dutch State Utrecht being occupied by hostile forces, and imagine800 citizen to lose their lives in the hands of that enemy. Neither the World, nor Holland can accept such thing. But when it comes to Azerbaijan, everybody accepts the events.”
Chairman of Holland Azerbaijan Turkish Culture Organization Ilhan Askin said, “Europe cannot ignore Khojaly genocide. This year we wanted people of Holland to listen our story from someone among themselves. And we assigned Gert B. Van Dam as the chairman of the platform.” Askin said that the petition will be continued till February 26, 2010. “The signatures will be sent to Azerbaijan and then they will be presented to Court of Human Rights,” said he.
An Azerbaijani citizen paying a visit to the exhibition, Sadikova Zerhanim said, “Armenia does not open its archives for historians to study. Because they do not want their lies to come out. The history is our witness, that the ones who committed a genocide were Armenians. Efforts of Russia, United States and EU towards peaceful resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict does not bring anything good. One million Azerbaijani refugee still live under difficult conditions. Twenty percent of the lands of Azerbaijan is still under occupation. It seems that only solution is the war.”
