BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 5. During the hearing at
the Baku Military Court on Monday, protocols related to the
massacre committed in the village of Balligaya of the Goranboy
district on August 28, 1992, were announced and examined, Trend reports.
According to the documents, residents of the Naghdali village of
the Lachin district, who were temporarily resettled in the shacks
nearby the Gulustan forest in the Balligaya village of the Goranboy
district following the occupation of the Lachin district, were shot
at by firearms by the Armenian armed forces on August 28, 1992, at
approximately 05:00, as a result of which 24 people were killed and
9 were wounded.
Of those killed during the massacre, 7 were under 18, and 4 were
persons over 60 years old. In total, 13 were women and 11 were
men.
According to the crime scene inspection report, it was
determined that internally displaced persons from the Lachin
district were resettled in a building called the “Finnish house”
and 4 shacks in the mountainous part of the Balligaya village. They
were killed that night by approximately 9 Armenian servicemen using
firearms in a generally dangerous manner, and their shacks were set
on fire. The “Finnish house” was completely burnt out, and the
bodies of a woman and 6 children were found inside, while 6 bodies
were retrieved from the 1st shack, 4 bodies from the 2nd shack, 1
wounded child and 2 bodies from the 3rd shack, 2 bodies from the
4th shack and 2 wounded children, and 3 bodies were found near the
“Belarus” tractor.
The trial continues for Armenian nationals accused of crimes
against peace and humanity, including war crimes, acts of
terrorism, waging and preparing for an aggressive war, genocide,
violations of the laws and customs of war, forcible seizure and
retention of power, and financing terrorism, among other offenses
related to Armenia’s military aggression. The next court hearing is
scheduled for May 8.
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