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MULTIMEDIA
May 28, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 

Pakistani senate commission recognizes killings of Azeris as genocide

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3 February 2012 / TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
A Pakistani senate commission has labeled the mass killings of Azerbaijanis two decades ago during fierce clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh as genocide.

The foreign relations committee of the Pakistani senate strongly condemned the massacre in 1992 of Azerbaijanis in the town of Khojaly, recognizing the mass slaughter as genocide.

The war over the predominantly ethnic-Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan ended in 1994, leaving 30,000 dead and more than 1 million displaced. Since then, talks to resolve one of the most worrisome "frozen conflicts" in the former Soviet Union have dragged on, with the enclave controlled by Armenian and separatist forces.

In the Communist era, Nagorno-Karabakh was an autonomous region within Soviet Azerbaijan. Ethnic Armenians now account for virtually the entire population in the enclave after forcefully driving out nearly a million Azerbaijanis from Nagorno-Karabakh and the seven adjacent provinces. 

One of the bloodiest phases of the war was the 1992 Khojaly massacre, when 613 Azerbaijani civilians were killed in a single night in a deliberate and systemic fashion by Armenian forces.

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry released a statement welcoming the move, pointing out that the bill also calls on Armenia to withdraw its troops from occupied territories without any preconditions. Armenia currently occupies 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory.
 
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some people here show their real face again. it is an official figure that 614 people were killed by armenians, in fact it is more than 2300. and this is fact. where are your facts that Turks committed a genocide to you? in Quba more than 6000 Azeris and jews were killed by armenians. and an armen...
Sanan
Pakistan is the pariah state that commited Genocide on Bengali muslims in 1971. Pakistani forces raped, tortured, and murdered 3 million Bengali muslims because the Bengalis had the audacity to elect one of their own as Prime Misister. That's right. Pakistani muslims killed 3,000,000 Bengali muslims...
Bengali
@antidote the difference is Turkey and Azerbaijan put criminals in jails but cyprus and armenia didnot give 1 day sentence to criminals and applaud them, this makes cyprus and armenia criminal
ff
you call pakistan a country think look again
andrew
I am a bit surprised over the comentators of this article. It is well know formula: you must not care what was said, you must care who is saying. Pakistan is the last country that anyone should take its government seriously.
Reeder
And yes Indians should not forget what they are doing to Muslims.
Muhammad Gohar
what happened to the half million ethnic Armenians born in Azerbaijan and their property and history?
thruth shall set you free
The main thing to remember here is the statement of PM Erdogan: "Muslims cannot commit genocide." That solves the issue, doesn't it? Muslims can by definition only be the victims of genocide, never the perpetrators. Welcome in Absurdistan!
erol
Sure, Armenia has been pariah and would continue to be. For all the same reason, Pakistan does neither recognises Israel and Armenia both. @Indian democratic: You have to bitch about Pakistan everywhere and keep relations with Israel and Armenia. Keep Kashmir against UN resolutions and entire east...
Naveed Ahmad
613? It is the whole displacement of one million Azeris that Pakistan rightly defines as a genocide.
jbenin
Bravo Pakistani senate for supporting Azeri brothers. But what about recognizing North Turkish Republic fighting for recognition for over 4 decades or you don't know about it or you are not allowed to think and discuss about it? Please speak, what is the real matter, or your senate seats are more v...
muradali_shaikh
Why is that when a Muslim or Azeri or Turk or Palenstinian or Arab recalls history and their pain, its dismissed until a Western country says it or acknowledges it. Why is it when the Palestinians talk about their history and their connection to their land is ignored but an Israeli or Jew says somet...
Senol
It's terribly interesting to watch the Armenians as they support mass murder. The numbers are actually of no importance -- it is the crime of mass murder SIMPLY based upon colonial ideology that is indeed the crime -- Armenians fit that definition like a hand to a glove. But of course, the murder an...
Cherokee
Obviously the Pakistani government has no idea what constitutes a genocide. 613 people being killed is not a genocide. You compare this to 1.5 million Armenians being systematically exterminated by the Ottoman Turks cerca 1915 and you have yourself a genocide. 75% of the Armenian population was wipe...
Human being
Pakistan, a terrorist Shiia Muslim state with no diplomatic relations with Armenia making such an accusation should not come as a surprise. This is the same country which created and financed the ruthless and barbaric Taliban to shoot women at point blank range in soccer stadiums for going to school...
Ararat
THERE ARE 30,000 DEAD WITH 1 MILLION DISPLACED NOT ONLY 613 AND TOO BY SYSTEMATICALLY STATE SPONSORED ARMY, AND AFTER (1948 GENOCIDE COMMISION)DEFINITELY DESERVED TO BE CALLED GENOCIDE, THIS SMALL AREA WAS NOT INHABITED BY BILLION SOULS ONLY THEN U CALL IT GENOCIDE IF BILLION DEAD
SHAMAS
Well done Pakistan. We need more recognition from the Muslim world for such matters. The West has failed to label any western/christian massacre as a genocide. I find this extremely hypocritical. The Bosnian massacre is Sebrenica wasn't even called a genocide but events that occured in WW1 with Otto...
Metin
a country where such genocides occur every day, where people are killed in hundreds, in a single bomb attack, and this is not something extraordinary, where anybody LEGALLY can be killed if converts to Christianity BY HIS OWN WILL , would do better to examine what means the word Genoci...
Justice
There is no reference and very little information. This can never happen in Pakistani senate. This must be a propagenda.
Azfar Khan
Azeri mass killings and cleansing their entire population from Nagorno Karabakh is indeed unforgettable tragedy which the motive was to do with religion.If the Pakistani's senate finally mentioned this tragedy as still bleeding and needing justice, is little consolation and positive step in the righ...
Nageyec
Since this is well known and documented, that Azerbaijani ruling elite had a hand in all this ?during the independentwar of Nagorno-Karabakh. Fabricationof Baku are easy to prove! If needed Armenia could demand from Pakistan compensation for conducting dirty propaganda against Armenian people by ...
The Truth
WOW, laughable.. Azerbaijani has proven that a Turk will remain Turk (see xocali.net) Thisis as Sadam or Stalin would arise and would starting to claim being a democrat and defender of human rights! And how about chid abuse and raping of youth in Pakistan, at least every month 613 cases sexua...
facts
@antidote, your numbers are coming from where?? what is your source because even on the Greek reports they acknowledge they found a mass grave over in the 100s. Just one spot and you are trying to accomplish what here on this forum where most turks know the history on the Island...don't waste our ti...
Senol
Whats wrong with you people, 613 killed (106 women and 83 children)is just one night, its not stating in the article that this was the final number, learn to read dip sticks before commenting. Do your homework, google it about how many Azeris died and were driven off the territory....fyi, leaving 30...
Senol
If Azeris have any proof of the so-called "genocide" of 600 people, let them bring it in front of International Courts. The truth is they cannot, because even they know that those 600 innocent Azeri civilians were murdered by their own people, ex-Azeri president Ayaz Mutalibov has unmasked Azeri mu...
J2
Pakistan, that Taliban infested pathetic third world country where killing innocent people and yelling "A---- u' Akbar" at the same time is a national sport. They can declare a so-called genocide of Azeris all they want, no one in the world, except Turks take them seriously, one humiliated nation de...
J2
AbuBintain, That 30,000 and 1000000 figures are for all of the war. Meaning it includes Armenians as well. There were several hundred thousand Armenian refugees who fled Azerbaijan. You might also want to google Sumgait. The problem is, calling Khojaly genocide only confirms 1915 as genocide. Seri...
Random Armenian
Dear Mahir, I would advise YOU to learn about the definiton of the term "Genocide" which is: "[...] acts committed WITH INTENT TO DESTROY, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group [...]" Armenians did not had the INTENT to destroy in whole or even in part the Azerbaidjan...
Martin
Only western nations have the right to label a conflict as genocide and only when christians are killed.
Sandokhan
Thank You Pakistan. Wouldn't it be nice if AKP could pay the same amount of concern to the sufferings of their own nation (on Cyprus and Azerbaijan for example) as they do to Palestine? But AKP choses instead to hand over TRNC to the sovereignty of Greek Cypriot terrorists, and supports Armenian gan...
Erhan
The more I read Turkish and Azerbaijani news, the more I get convinced that the war with Azerbaijan was justified. This people truly live in another world with a completely different perception of truth. They have been brazenly denying the truth about the killing of more than a million people for al...
minas
For as long as I can remember, Pakistan has always assisted the Turkish people against Armenian, Greek, and Greek Cypriot crimes. What does AKP do? It seeks to destroy independent TRNC and place it under Greek Cypriot control through some kind of "federation". It seeks to help finance Armenian terro...
Semra
Pakistan should set an example to AKP. The mass graves of Turks of Cyprus (Murataga, Sandallar, Atlilar Taskent, etc, etc, etc) by Greek Cypriot murderers that were sanctioned by the illegl terrorist Greek Cypriot regime from before the 1974 Peace and Liberation Operation, and the Armenian terroris...
Orhan
Not only in Kocali and the occupuied territories, the whole of so-called "armenia" was established through the genocide of the Turkish Azeri majority. In 1870, Yerevan was solely a Turkic city. "armenia" is a genocoidal artificial and terrorist state established illegally on Turkic land. It is curre...
Ayhan
Numbers of killed people is NOT important for genocide. You can kill 1 MILLION people and it may not fit "genocide" terms, but you can kills 50 people and it can be called "genocide" legally. Number of killed people is not important. So, stop talking making ridiculous comments when you don't have an...
Orxan
Indian democratic, have you forgotten the Mumbai riots between in December 1992 and January 1993 in which 900 Indian Muslims were murdered?
GeneralSherman
Saaten Maagar, all that happened in 1915 was that armenians started separatist terrorism on behalf of foreign imperialists and murdered hundreds of thousands of Turks and were deported because of it. Turkiye doesn't "occupy" anything. All of this land including what is called "armenia" has been Tu...
GeneralSherman
Avery. Everybody everywhere and everytime kills armenians. What a absurd point of view. However it was not surprise for me. So armenians always pretend and show themselves as oppressed people. This is a traditional and typical armenian policy.
Tural
First of all WHO SAID THAT 613 azeris died on the hands of ARMENIANS? Then who said that the dead were 613 perhaps they were not even 12? The what about the Genocide against Armenians in BAKU, SUMGAIT and KIROVAPAT in which hundreds were massacred in daytime for which the soviets interviened in Janu...
Mani
Let Armenia recognize also the Genocide committed by Pakistan against Bangladesh in Operation Searchlight in 1971.. 3 MILLION bangali muslims died in that organized GENOCIDE.. Pakistan is the last country on earth to talk about Genocide.
Mani
avery, Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University on C-SPAN at the National Press Club in Washington, DC: “This is a question of definition and nowadays the word "genocide" is used very loosely even in cases where no bloodshed is involved at...
GeneralSherman
613=genocide? That's an improvement! From what I've read, only 228 Turkish Cypriots (I got this number from a TC website) lost their lives in the INTER-ethnic violence of 1963-1973, and Turkey has been calling that one genocide ever since! In other news, skulls are still being found in Diyarbakir......
antidote
Mexico recognized it too.
necati
ahahahah ridiculous! Pakistan is the last country who can sentence about crimes and human rights!
Indian democratic
When a Muslim nation speaks truth the whole of athiest/christian Europe and there kind goes into denial. But as usual the athiest/christian Europeans want the world to obey there version of events.
Meat
The first 2 sentences of your article can be considered “so called news”, but the rest, is absolute fabrication and propaganda not worthy of your news agency. So you as a news source have determined that 613 Azeris were killed in 1993, while there was a war started by Azerbaijan’s army against the p...
Saaten Maagar
30,000 people were killed and over 1 million displaced. This dose look like genocide.
AbuBintain
Avery, whatever happened to both sides is horrible and deplorable. But you can't justify Khojaly killings just because there were killings in Sumgayit. It was a chaotic time and many were killed from both sides. You can't just blame only one side and justify your own killings. Whatever happened else...
Mahir
{Mahir] if you were really concerned about civilian deaths, i.e. which would include Armenian civilians as well and not just Azeri civilians, you would show the same concern about the several hundred Armenian civilians massacred by Azeri mobs in Sumgait, Kirovabad, Baku: How about Sumgait Genocide; ...
Avery
Dear Martin, I would advise you to learn what the term genocide means. You don't have to wipe off the entire population of an ethnic group, you can partially kill them to to fit in genocide. Besides, are you suggesting that killing of 613 civilians are not a matter of concern? Horrible.
Mahir
{A Pakistani senate commission has labeled the mass killings of Azerbaijanis two decades ago during fierce clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh as genocide.} Wow, that is a surprise. Pakistan has labeled the Khojali tragedy a quote {genocide}. But in the Islamic world the Arm...
Avery
Just to get this clear…… so with killing 613 people, the Armenians in Karabakh intended to systematically annihilate the entire Azerbaijani population of more than 9 Million people?! And the death of 613 people threatened the existence of the entire Azerbaijani population?! The main question in th...
Martin
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