Azerbaijanis organized “exhibition” at the Lidice-Memorial, which was called the worst mockery of the Lidice victims by the Check journalist Dana Mazalova. The “exhibition” at the Lidice-Memorial was aimed to spread misinformation about events in Khojalu. Azerbaijanis tried to present the Czech village of Lidice , destroyed by the Nazis, and the Azerbaijani town of Khodjalu as twin towns.
The exhibition displayed “photographs” allegedly shot by civilian and military journalist Chingiz Mustafayev, the author of the famous cover of the Khojalu tragedy. None of the photographs has been made by Mustafaev, Dana Mazalova , well-known Czech journalist told a news conference in Yerevan jointly held with Ara Saghatelyan, Director of the Public Relations and Information Office of Armenian President. Dana Mazalova is an eyewitness of those events, she was covering the hostilities in Karabakh.
"Unfortunately, the Czech authorities did not check what the Azerbaijanis had said or shown. We together with my Czech colleagues have decided to respond to the black PR of Azerbaijan. The only person who can do it – it's me, because I have seen all the raw materials, which Chingiz Mustafayev made," Dana Mazalova said.
According to her, on the photographs, presented by the Azeri, naked bodies of men are shown, but the photos by Mustafaev featured only people in cloths.
After Mustafaev discovered the bodies of people, he carried some of them and when he returned for the rest, the corpses had been already mutilated and scalped, she said. The photos by Mustafaev featured only people in cloths, she stressed.
According to the Check journalist, a video, shot by Mustafayev shows that dead people are lying near Aghdam and one can see the single moving person in the Azerbaijani uniform, not even reacting to the helicopter above.
She said, that the “exhibition” is the worst mockery of the Lidice victims.
The corridor between Armenia and Azerbaijan was open, there is factual evidence, Ara Saghatelyan stressed. The interview of the former Azerbaijani President Ayaz Mutalibov to Dana Mazalova in 1992 is another evidence to that.
Ayaz Mutalibov particularly said: "According to survived Khojalu dwellers, everything was organized for my resignation”. He said, he does not believe that Armenians ever might be involved in such fascist actions. “One can assume that some people were interested in focusing everything on my person. If I say that it is the fault of the Azerbaijani opposition…. The corridor to leave was left by the Armenians. Why should they shoot then? Especially in the territory close to the Aghdam, which had enough forces to go out and help people or simply agree over civilians leaving? This was the practice all the time ".
Saghatelyan also reported that in late March a film about the Sumgait events will be screened, which will show the unique shots filmed by Russia's specialists.
