The Khojaly Massacre Memorial in Khatai raion,

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, and the first public memorial in

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dedicated to victims of the Khojaly Massacre.

Construction and unveiling

The memorial was built in 2008, funded by the local government under the impetus of president

Ilham Aliyev Ilham Heydar oghlu Aliyev ( az, İlham Heydər oğlu Əliyev, ; born 24 December 1961) is the fourth president of Azerbaijan, serving in the post since 31 October 2003. The son and second child of the former Azerbaijani leader Heydar Aliyev, ...

.Ильхам Алиев принял участие в церемонии почтения памяти жертв Ходжалинской трагедии
(2013)

Design

The memorial consists of granite boulders lying within a gravel bed, while figure made from

bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such ...

.New memorial to Khojaly tragedy to be erected in Baku
Height of the memorial altogether is 8.6 m. The monument depicts a mother with a dead child in her arms, which she presses to the heart. During construction of the memorial, sculptors were also used photographs taken Azerbaijani journalist Chingiz Mustafayev.К годовщине Ходжалы в Баку будет открыт обновленный памятник "Ана Харайи"
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References

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