Photo exhibition on Khojaly tragedy opens in Baku
An exhibition of photographs of the victims of the Khojaly massacre has opened in Baku.
The pictures are the work of French photographer Frédérique Lengaigne who photographed the stunned survivors of the Khojaly massacre as they reached the town of Agdam.
Her pictures show charred and bullet-ridden corpses, bodies piled high on trucks and grief-stricken mourners.
Doctors labour in makeshift operating theatres to save the wounded.
Survivors struggle over the freezing mountains to reach Agdam, some without shoes, the young carrying the old.
Ordinary people experiencing unimaginable pain. The photographs are a powerful testament to the suffering of the people of Khojaly.
They fled the town of Khojaly as it came under intensive attack on the night of 25-26 February 1992. A total of 613 Azerbaijani civilians were killed in the attack by Armenian forces, backed by an ex-Soviet regiment. Most of the victims perished as they tried to flee to safety. Over 1,000 were taken prisoner.
Every photographer at the scene of a disaster feels guilt, said Frédérique Lengaigne at the opening of the exhibition. Shouldn't they be helping someone instead of just taking photographs? "But now that 20 years have passed I do not feel the guilt. It was right to take these photographs."
The exhibition has been organized by The European Azerbaijan Society (TEAS).
TEAS Chairman Taleh Heydarov said that this was the first time that Frédérique Lengaigne's photographs had been exhibited. Only some of her more than 300 pictures are on display.
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