Khojaly Genocide Memorial, Baku

Khojaly Genocide Memorial in Baku, Azerbaijan or “Mother cry” (“Ana harayı” abidəsi) a monument to the victims of the Khojaly massacre, carried out on the night of February 25 to February 26 in 1992 by members of Armenian armed formations against residents of the Azerbaijani city of Khojaly. This is the first public memorial in Azerbaijan dedicated to victims of the Khojaly Massacre. Khojaly Genocide Memorial is locate not far from the Khatai metro station and depicts a mother running out of the house in her nightgown with a dead child in her arms, whom she presses against her heart. Photographic materials taken by famous Azerbaijani journalist Chingiz Mustafayev were also used in the work. The bas-reliefs of the pedestal depict women, children, old men who were killed during the massacre, as well as Chingiz Mustafayev himself, bending over the body of a dead child with a camera in his hands. And at the bottom of the pedestal are data on the victims and engraved lists with the names of the deceased. The authors of the memorial are Teymur Rustamov, his father Aslan Rustamov and brother Mahmud Rustamov. SOURCE: BakuTravelGuide