Today is 31st anniversary of Balligaya massacre committed by Armenia

Baku, The Gulf Observer: Thirty-one years have passed since the monstrous mass murder committed by the Armenian armed forces against peaceful Azerbaijanis in the village of Balligaya in the Goranboy district.

The tragedy, which went down in history as the massacre in Balligaya, took place on August 28, 1992, at about 5 a.m.

As a result of the massacre, 24 peaceful Azerbaijanis were brutally killed, including 6 children, as well as a six-month-old infant, and a 93-year-old woman. The bodies of the killed children, women, and old people were burnt. Three minors were left orphans.

The Balligaya massacre is an act of terror in a series of bloody crimes, and genocides committed by the Armenian armed forces in Garadaghli village of Khojavand district, Khojaly town, Aghdaban village of Kalbajar district to exterminate the Azerbaijani population of Karabakh.

After the occupation of the Lachin district by Armenia in the summer of 1992, the local population expelled from their homes was forced to settle in different regions of Azerbaijan. Six families with kinship ties settled in the territory of Balligaya, which is favorable for cattle breeding. Residents of Lachin district, who settled in tents in Balligaya village in August, also came here with the sole purpose of continuing livestock farming.

On August 28, they were all brutally murdered. At about 5 a.m., a heavily armed detachment of Armenian armed forces saboteurs carried out a bloody massacre of peaceful Azerbaijanis. Twenty-four civilians were brutally killed, 9 people were seriously wounded. All the dead and wounded were engaged in livestock breeding.

The bloody massacres of peaceful Azerbaijanis in Balligaya, Garadaghli, Khojaly, and Aghdaban clearly demonstrate that Armenians have been hatching hostile plans against our compatriots throughout history. These bloody acts will never be erased from the memory of Azerbaijanis.

Retribution came to the Armenian thugs. On September 27, 2020, the valiant Azerbaijani Army under the leadership of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev defeated the Armenian army during the 44-day Patriotic War, debunking myths about its invincibility, getting even on the battlefield with criminals and occupiers for the innocently killed brothers and sisters, children and babies.

But the true gut of the enemy was revealed during the Patriotic War. Having failed to defeat the Azerbaijani Army, Armenian servicemen cowardly fled from the battlefield, abandoning everything, including military equipment and their wounded soldiers. Determined to somehow get even more revenge for their loss, the Armenian armed forces resorted to an even more despicable act and began bombing Azerbaijani cities and districts far from the front line with ballistic missiles. The rocket attacks on Ganja and Barda killed civilians, including women and children. In Mingachevir, Yevlakh, Naftalan, Goranboy, Tartar, Aghdam, Aghjabedi, and other towns and districts a large number of people, including children and women, were killed and infrastructure was damaged as a result of shelling and rocket attacks on civilians.

This is the ideology of Armenian hostility towards Azerbaijanis.

But the ideology of Armenians, the illusion of the indestructibility of the Armenian army, which they tried so hard to assure themselves of, was dealt a crushing blow, and the blow was so strong that it forced the enemy to kneel down forever. We defeated the insidious enemy thanks to the courage and unity of the Azerbaijani Army and people closely united around the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. Historical justice was restored. Our lands, which had been under occupation for many years, were liberated from enemy invaders. Armenian militants and their henchmen, who had been committing massacres and genocide against Azerbaijanis for many years, were destroyed on the battlefield. Despite the victory, the Azerbaijani people have never forgotten the massacres committed by the Armenians.

President, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev has also repeatedly emphasized in his speeches that none of the acts of terror against the Azerbaijani people will be forgotten and Armenia will be held accountable in legal terms for its criminal acts.