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The site Xocali.net http://xocali.net/ru/n22.html goes on revealing the falsifications of Azerbaijani propaganda over the events in Aghdam in 1992. Within the frameworks of the propaganda campaign “Justice for Khojaly” the Azerbaijani press publishes belated “eyewitness testimonies” containing all sorts of absurdities and contradictions.

On 20 February, 2014 the site “Publika.az” published an article titled “They cut off my ear with knife”. In the article an Aghdam events “survivor” Panakh Maharramov was telling a very detailed story about the tortures he had to “experience” in Armenian captivity.

“Then they took us to a barracks in Khankendi. Many enemy soldiers slept there. Two of them were awake, and another old man was making a fire for them; he was an Armenian from Sumgait. We came and sat down in the barracks. The two came up to us. I had already got used to the tortures and I didn’t ask for mercy from the enemy. One of them took out an enormous knife and cut off my ear. I didn’t say anything. ‘Come what may,’ I thought. I endured the pain in silence. Cutting off my ear, he took it with him. I lost much blood then,” the ‘victim’ relates.

However, the Azerbaijani site was inconsiderate enough to publish Panakh Maharramov’s photos during the wartime and now, where both of his ears can be clearly discerned.

On February 26, 1992, during the war in Karabakh, around 200 to 300 people (according to Human Rights Watch, and 600 according to the version propagated by Azerbaijan) were killed in unknown circumstances near the city of Aghdam. They have been deliberately withheld by the Azerbaijani authorities in the midst of the military actions. Population of the village of Khojalu, which was one of the firing points shooting at the blockaded Stepanakert (among five others) was kept in the village for months by force and was not evacuated by the authorities of Azerbaijan deliberately, in order to use them as human shields later.

Residents of Khojalu coming out through the humanitarian corridor, that the self-defense forces of NKR had left open, freely passed more than 10 km and reached the Aghdam city controlled by the Azerbaijani troops. Later, not far from the positions of Azerbaijani troops dead bodies of the villagers were found. The exact death toll remains unknown as the official Baku publishes data contradicting each other.

Parliamentary Commission investigating the tragic death of the civilians at Aghdam city was dissolved by the order of Heydar Aliyev, the investigative materials are kept secret.