Today marks the anniversary of the Bashlibel tragedy, SİA reports.
33 years have passed since the massacre committed in the village of Bashlibel during Armenia’s occupation of Azerbaijan’s Kalbajar district in April 1993.
As a result of this crime, residents of the village, including children, women, persons with disabilities, and the elderly, were subjected to torture and killed en masse, with some even burned alive.
During the occupation of Bashlibel, 62 civilians took refuge in a cave in an attempt to survive. However, after their location was discovered, Armenian forces launched an armed attack and carried out a massacre.
After the liberation of the Kalbajar district, the Azerbaijani side discovered the burial site near the cave where the bodies of those brutally killed by Armenian armed forces had been interred by fellow villagers. The remains of the victims were exhumed, identified, and reburied individually.
Testimonies of surviving witnesses also confirm that some residents were taken hostage during the Bashlibel massacre, and some are still considered missing.
Bashlibel, one of the oldest and largest villages of the Kalbajar district, saw its historical, cultural, and religious sites destroyed during the occupation.
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