Military attachés of foreign countries commemorate victims of terror in Ganja

Military attachés of foreign states accredited in the Republic of Azerbaijan paid tribute to the memory of the civilians who died as a result of rocket attacks by the Armenian armed forces in the city of Ganja.

Report informs that the military attaches visited the site of the terrorist act committed by the Armenian military units in Ganja during the Patriotic War.

Major-General Huseyn Mahmudov, head of the International Military Cooperation Department, informed in detail the military representatives of foreign countries about the deliberate bombings of Ganja, Barda, Tartar, Mingachavir, Beylagan, Gabala, Goranboy, Aghjabadi, Naftalan, Absheron and Khizi regions with ballistic missiles and other heavy artillery installations in 2020 year by the armed forces of Armenia during the 44-day war with the aim of inflicting maximum losses among the civilian population in violation of the norms and principles of international humanitarian law.

It was noted that, despite the introduction of a humanitarian ceasefire, at around 02:00 am on October 11, 2020, the Armenian Armed Forces fired rockets at apartment buildings in the city of Ganja. As a result of the incident, 9 people died, including 4 women, and 35 others were injured. One of the wounded later died in the hospital.

The military attaches were informed that during the Second Karabakh War, as a result of the military aggression of Armenia, 93 civilians were killed, including 12 children and 27 women, 454 civilians were injured, 12,292 residential and non-residential premises, 288 vehicles were damaged.

It was especially emphasized that Azerbaijan is one of the most mine-contaminated countries in the world. In the two years that have passed since the end of the Second Karabakh War, more than 250 Azerbaijani citizens have died or been seriously injured as a result of mine explosions.

As part of the visit, the military attaches also visited the Nizami Ganjavi mausoleum. Here they were provided with detailed information about the work of the outstanding representative of world literature, the great Azerbaijani poet and thinker Nizami Ganjavi.