February 26, 2025, 33 years ago.

Khojaly was the second largest Azerbaijani town in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast until the massacre and the displacement of its Azerbaijani population during the 1st Nagorno-Karabakh War.

The Khojaly massacre, a dreadful event that became the largest single massacre throughout the entire Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, took place on February 26, 1992; the mass killing, by Armenian forces and the 366th CIS regiment, of 613 Azerbaijani civilians, including 106 women and 63 children and 200 are still missing and we do not know their whereabouts.

At the Azerbaijan Consulate in Los Angeles, a commemoration of the Khojaly massacre took place.

Video photo: center, Vugar Gurbanov, Consul General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles for U.S. West Coast, to his left, Eti, El-Kiss, CEO Cachet Worldwide Productions, and right, Nurit Greenger, President US-AZ Cultural Foundation.

Video photo: center, Vugar Gurbanov, Consul General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles for U.S. West Coast, to his left, Eti, El-Kiss, CEO Cachet Worldwide Productions, and right, Nurit Greenger, President US-AZ Cultural Foundation.

Video photo: center, Vugar Gurbanov, Consul General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles for U.S. West Coast, to his left, Eti, El-Kiss, CEO Cachet Worldwide Productions, and right, Nurit Greenger, President US-AZ Cultural Foundation.

In Israel, initiative carried out by the State of Israel, Azerbaijan-Israel International Association (AzIz), and Lev Spivak, Egyana Salman, Shaul Siman-Tov, and Rav Shmuel Simantov, a portion of Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first president, park has been dedicated the victims of the Khojaly genocide.

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