Remembering Khojaly Azerbaijan Society of America cordially invites you to attend a commemorative event Remembering Khojali by Thomas Goltz In February of 1992, exactly 10 years ago, the name of a little-known Azerbaijani town of Khojali became a symbol of brutality and another name for a crime against humanity. On February 26, Armenian forces backed by the Russian military committed what the Human Rights Watch called the "largest massacre of the conflict to date." The New York Times wrote about "truckloads of bodies" and reported instances of "scalping." Murder of hundreds of innocent civilians in Khojali, the unprecedented cruelty of the massacre made the revealed the true nature of Armenian chauvinism. Today, survivors of Khojali are still scattered throughout Azerbaijan among the one million refugees, who fled Armenia's policy of occupation and ethnic cleansing. Thomas Goltz, an American writer and an acute observer of the region, was among the few, who witnessed first hand and told the world about the last days of Khojali. He later wrote about it in his brilliant account of the first painful years of Azerbaijan's independence - the Azerbaijan Diary. Mr. Goltz has agreed to share his memories of Khojali ten years later. Date Thursday, February 21, 2002 10 a.m. to noon Where Room 121 Cannon House Office Building U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC (One block from Capitol South Metro) UNITED STATES Contact Thomas Goltz goltz@wtp.net Massacre and Flight From Khojali - Elman Mammamdov - Autumn 1999 (7.3) Listed with AZER.com: 2/18/2002 AI Home | Magazine Choice | Topics | Store | Contact us From Azerbaijan International © Azerbaijan International 2002. All rights reserved.