In the city of Ganja, many Azerbaijanis who lost their homes to the brutal occupation of Armenian separatists in Karabakh are inspecting old wounds as Azerbaijani soldiers reclaim the region after three decades.
Thousands of people turned up at the Martyrs' Graveyard in Ganja on September 27 to commemorate the Second Karabakh War. / Photo: TRT World
“My son was killed in a battle near Lachin in 1992. It was either homeland or death,” said Huseyinov Mehman Kamiloglu, 86, one of many who had come to the graveyard to take part in commemoration ceremonies.Thousands of Azerbaijanis lost their lives fighting to reclaim Karabakh over the decades. “On December 24, 1991, we were forcibly expelled from our village by the Armenians. That was our ancestral land. We were left with nothing,” said Recepov Imran Kamranoglu, referring to the Qazanli village in Karabakh’s Khojali district, which for years was under Armenian occupation.Years later, Kamranoglu joined the Azerbaijan military and took part in the Second Karabakh War. The battles to take back the region weren’t easy.
“There was a small boy who was pulled out of the rubble. He looked so confused like he had lost his mind.”Armenia hit civilians in Azerbaijan's Ganja city during the Second Karabakh War, killing more than two dozen people. The displacement that took place in Shusha, Aghdam and other Azerbaijani towns after they fell into the hands of Armenian separatists is once again in the spotlight as experts say the Armenian diaspora in the US and elsewhere has propagated a skewed narrative, portraying themselves as victims and Azerbaijanis as aggressors while completely erasing the history of dehumanisation and mass violence against Azerbaijanis.
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