[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 1359]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       COMMEMORATING THE 19TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KHOJALY TRAGEDY

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                           HON. VIRGINIA FOXX

                           of north carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 8, 2011

  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in remembrance of the 613 ethnic 
Azerbaijani civilians who were killed during the massacre at Khojaly, 
in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, on February 25-26, 1992. 
According to Human Rights Watch, Memorial Human Rights Center, and 
other international observers, the Khojaly tragedy was committed by the 
ethnic Armenian armed forces, reportedly with the assistance of the 
Russian 366th Motor Rifle Regiment. At the time, the massacre at 
Khojaly was described by Human Rights Watch as ``the largest massacre 
to date in the conflict'' over Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan. Largely 
condemned by the international community, in 2001 at least 30 members 
of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe stated in 
Written Declaration No. 324 that the ``Armenians massacred the whole 
population of Khojaly and fully destroyed the town.'' Mr. Speaker, I 
ask my colleagues to join me in remembering the town and people of 
Khojaly who died on those fateful days and in offering our deepest 
condolences to Azerbaijan on this tragic anniversary.

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