Received by Registration Unit 02/23/2018 Note: BGR Government Affairs," LLC haniled registration statements under the Foreign Agents Registration Act with regard to its representation and dissemination of information on behalf ofthe Department of Justice in Washington, DC A Massacre The World Can Never Forget RAOUL. RAS Author, Murder in the Mountains - Thanks to the Internet we know of massacres that we might not have heard about ?ve or ten years ago. Here are some examples: November 2017 gunmen entered Egy pt?s Rawdah Su? IMosque and machine gunned over 300 worshipers including 128 women and 27 children, CNN reported American network ABC reported in August 2017 that 100 men women and children were killed in Chut Pyin a Mynamar village by Mynamar troops. The Independent reported 1n September 2017 that Myn'amar soldiers loyal to a Nobel Peace Prize awardee kill more than 400 Rohingya Muslims The Internet. leads us to these ?events almost instantaneously. That wasn the case a quarter of a century ago. On the night of February 26, I992, Armenian troops supported by Russian soldiers of the 366th Motorized Infantry Regiment attacked the Azerbaijani mountain town of Khoj?aly. Its 3000 people were [defended by a hundred police and volunteer teen-aged students. Rockets and artillery shells bombarded the town. barrages had occurred for the ?ve months since Armenian forces had cut roads to the rest of Azerbaijan; no vehicles could enter or, leave Khojaly. Supplies were helicoptered in, people out; the ?ights ended on the 14th., Food was scarce. I I i The bombardment drove Khojaly residents into. basement shelters. When it ended, Arrhenian and Russian-soldiers attacked. Defenders knew they couldn?t hold against tanks, so they told all to flee Khojaly'eastwar?d t0 heavily defended Aghdam. From their GarGar River take-off point, groups of men, women and children started downhill. . through snow covered hills in freezing temperatures. With only the clothes they wore, they tripped and stumbled downhill towards safety through the night. Their elderly slowed everyone. Armenia claims to this day that the people of Khojaly were warned to evacuate through ai?safc corridor? doWn the mountains. They say they promised safe passage. Between midnight and daWn 613 men, women and children were slaughtered by machine guns, ri?es, knives and Received by ARA Registration Unit 02/23/2018 3:08:04 PM Received by Registration Unit 02/23/2018 3:08:04 PM bayonets In that? safe passage. Without a doubt, the killers were Armenians Proof: Armenians took hundreds of hostages held for days and weeks to be traded with Azerbaijan for commodities and oil. Within hours of-the massacre, American reporter ThomasGoltz made his way by helicopter to the killing ?elds and wrote a story for the Washington Post which he dictated over the phone from Aghdam by way of the. Post?s Moscow bureau. The story was published February 27, l992 in the Post, with another article in London?s Sunday Times the Sunday after the Massacre. The New York Times ran a? about the massacre on March 2 that described the Russian participation and that ??scalping [was] reported" of bodies observed by reporter Goltz and others. Time Magazine ran a Story on Khojaly on March 16, 1992. I Despite some coverage by the Washington Post (2 articles), the New York Times The Sunday Times (1) and Time Magazine (1), few people in the United States knew anything about the massacre at Khojaly, Which by de?nition of the 1948 Convention of Genocide was a genocidal act a punishable war crime. Armenians defend what happened at Khojaly. In a Horizon Weekly article entitled ?Khojaly: The Chronicle of Unseen Forgery and Falsification" by Vahram Atanesyan. he, who probably has never spoken with a survivor of February 26, challenges Goltz. Goltz? book "Azerbaijan Diary?? has been validated by another book, ?Black Garden"written by Caucasus expert Thomas De Wall. Time Magazine called ?Black Garden? ?Brilliant.? G'oltz was at the killing ?elds within a day ofthe massacre and is the only American reporter who visited Khojaly before the attack. He personally knew people whose bodies he saw. De W-aal reported on the battle [0 years later. Unlike Atanesyan and other Armenian critics, he did interview survivors. The Armenian ?challenges? lack collaboration and common sense.- In a March 2017 H'uffPost article by two Armenians, Christopher Atamian and Hayakaram Nahapetyan, the authors suggest that it was "Popular Front? Azerbaijanis politically opposed to the Baku government that killed everyone at Khojaly in internecine political warfare. Goltz, De Waal, Armenian President Sarkisian and Human Rights Watch disagree. 3 - So, does the brother of the California-born and educated assassin, terrorist and military hero of Armenia, Monte Melkonian. The brother, Markar Melkonian wrote a book titled"Mv Brother ?5 Road: A American is Fatefirl Journey to Armenia.? In it, he wrote: ?Khojaly had been a strategic goal (with its air?eld), but it had also been an act of revenge. Received by Registration Unit 02/23/2018 3 :08:04 PM Received. by Registration Unit 02/23/2018 3:08:04 PM I I He specrf es two Armenian military detachments ARABO and ARAMO (Melkonian? 3 book, page 213): ?The Arabofighters had then unsheathed the knives they. hadcarried on their hips for so long, and began stabbing. Now, the only sound was the wind whistling through dry grass, (1 wind that was too early yet to' blow army the stench of corpses. Monte crunched over the grass where women and girls lay scattered like broken dolls." A better View is that ofcu1rent Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian; in Themas De Wall 5 Black Garden on page 172 we ?nd this quote he gave to De Waal: ?Before Khojalt', the Azerbaijanis? thought they were joking with as. diet thought that Armenians were people who Could not raise their hand against the civilian population. We were able to break that [stereotype]. And that?s what happened. De Waal?s analysis: (also on page 172): . "?Sarkision? account throws a different light on the worst massacre of the Karabakh war, suggesting the killings may, at least part, have been a deliberate act of mass killing as intimidation.? Human Rights Watch (HRW) has a gosition on what Armenians call the' Battle othojaly" or ?The Khoialy Event" We place direct responsibility for the civilian deaths with Karabakh Armenian forces. .The circumsia'nces surrounding the attack. .indicate (to HR W) that Armenian forces and the troops of the 366th CIS regiment. .executed the massacre at halal On the night of February 26, 1992, a war crime occurred in Khojaly, Azerbaijan, in which over 600 men, women and children were killed; hundreds are still missing. Thanks to the Internet, America knows it nowDaily Caller: Azerbaiian is Crucial Allv Along New Silk Road ReCeived by Registration Unit 02/23/2018 3:08:04 PM