Type Memorial Opening date 2008 Completion date 2008 | Height 2 m Opened 2008 | |
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(Text) CC BY-SA