Recently the recurrent Azerbaijani “movie” about Khojaly appeared in the Internet. Here the “hospitable and peaceful” Azerbaijanis are telling about the “tragedy” of Khojaly. In this recurrent Azerbaijani “movie”, which is based on obvious falsehood, there are several distorted facts and untrue information. The quotations from Zori Balayan’s book are obscene lies. Some months ago Zori Balayan himself made an announcement about this, stating that he has never written a book like that.
It is stated in the “movie” that the residents, who had fled from Khojaly, were shot near the Armenian Nakhijevanik village. This fact also does not meet the reality, because in February, 1992 the village of Nakhijevanik, which is situated around Aghdam, was not under the Armenian Armed Forces. The “movie” ends with a touching, heart-breaking music and with the photos of these so called victims and witnesses of the occurrence. It takes only 1-2 minutes to learn that one is a photo of a wounded Armenian child, which has been published in the 5th of December, 1991 issue of the “Комсомолец Кузбаса” (“Komsomolets Kuzbasa”) newspaper. And the article was titled “Долгая дорога в Эркеч” (“The long way to Erkech”). The electronic version of the abovementioned article can be found on the following website: http://www.press.karabakh.info.
It only remains to advise the staff of the Azerbaijani agitprop to be more attentive and make such falsifications, which are not so obvious and so easy-to-uncover.

RA MoD Department of Information and Public Affairs