Jordan`s news agency posts article on Khojaly genocide

Baku, February 28 (AzerTAc). Jordan`s Al-Uruba news agency posted an article about the commemorative event held in Azerbaijani embassy on the occasion of the Khojaly genocide`s 21st anniversary. Speeches by event participants, including deputy chairman of Jordan Senate, head of executive board of the Jordan-Azerbaijan Friendship Society Marwan Humud and writer Hattab were highlighted in the article. The article says on the night of 25-26 February 1992, the Armenian armed forces, with participation of the Khankendi-based 366th motorized infantry regiment, attacked and ruined, in one night, the town of Khojaly, which had been encircled during months. In this bloody act, they brutally slaughtered civilians, murdering 613 people, abusing corpses, taking 1275 hostages. Of them, the fate of 150 remains unknown. Of the killed, 63 are children, 106 are women and 70 are elders. The military invasion completely wiped out 8 families.