The Khojaly genocide is a bloody war crime committed by the Armenian state, by Armenian fascists, against the Azerbaijanis — against humanity; it is a war crime against humanity.

Axar.az reports that President Ilham Aliyev said this during a meeting with representatives of the Khojaly district community.

"The Armenian state bears full responsibility for this. In just one night, more than 600 innocent civilians, 106 of whom were women and 63 were children, were brutally murdered by Armenian fascists. 150 people went missing, and it is clear that they were also killed by the Armenians. The remains of some of them were found after the occupation and buried."