World-renowned photojournalist Reza Deghati has created a new website that aims to increase global recognition of the Khojaly genocide.
KhojalyWitness is available in four languages, AZERTAC reports.
Famous photojournalist Reza Deghati is one of the rare witnesses of the Khojaly genocide committed against the Azerbaijani people in 1992. For many years now, he has been organizing exhibitions in many countries to tell the world the truth about the Khojaly tragedy, which Deghati captured in his photographs.
“My photographs show the suffering, anguish and death of innocent people. What I saw shocked me so much that I feel it is my duty to tell it,” he says.
Reza Deghati uses the language of photography to tell the stories of people around the world who find themselves in trouble and face injustice, and for more than thirty years, he has been on a noble mission: to make sure that the world hears the voices and feels the pain of the residents of Khojaly. His website, KhojalyWitness, created in partnership with Leyla Aliyeva, Vice President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the initiator of the international campaign “Justice for Khojaly!”, serves precisely this purpose.
The website contains photos and video footage taken in Khojaly and Aghdam in 1992, and the stories behind them, as well as articles published in such prestigious international media as Time, The New York Times, The Washington Times, The Washington Post, BBC1News, The Independent, Le Monde, Newsweek, The Sunday Times, The Age, The Boston Globe, Kommersant and many others.
It also features materials by the American journalist Thomas Goltz, Azerbaijani journalist and cameraman Chingiz Mustafayev, Reuters photographer Frederique Lengaigne and Lithuanian photojournalist Ričardas Lapaitis.
The information on KhojalyWitness is in Azerbaijani, French, English and Russian. There are plans to make the website devoted to the Khojaly genocide available in ten languages in the future.
