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Khojaly Genocide Memorial (The Hague)

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Type
  
Memorial

Opening date
  
2008

Completion date
  
2008

Height
  
2 m

Opened
  
2008

Khojaly Genocide Memorial (The Hague) httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
Kamperfoeliestraat park, The Hague, Netherlands

Dedicated to
  
Victims of the Khojaly Massacre

The Khojaly Genocide Memorial in The Hague, Netherlands and the first public memorial in Europe dedicated to victims of the Khojaly Massacre.

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Construction and unveiling

The memorial was built in 2008 at Kamperfoeliestraat park of The Hague, and funded on the initiative of Holland-Azerbaijan Turk Circle.

The memorial were unveiled on 24 February 2008, with support of the Embassy of Azerbaijan to the Netherlands, State Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan for Work with Azerbaijanis Living in Foreign Countries and Heydar Aliyev Foundation.

Design

The monument stone depicts a mother with a dead child in her arms and land that on which the monument has been leased for 30 years.

References

Khojaly Genocide Memorial (The Hague) Wikipedia