ArmInfo. Several days ago Azerbaijani media published an information that the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem - Knights of Malta (O.S.J.) came out with a statement regarding so called Hodjaly events, which are characterized as "Genocide action" and "One of the most horrorable tragedies of the 20th century."
To avoid any misunderstanding, we would like to accentuate from the very beginning, that this order has no any relation to the ancient Christian Order - Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem - Knights of Malta, the Magister of which in late October was on his state visit to Armenia. The results of a small study undertaken showed that the order mentioned in Azerbaijani media is one of more than 20 orders pretending to be entitled as Knights Order, but not adjudicated by other countries or international entities.
In essence, this is only a public organization, which turned a tool of anti-Armenian campaign hold by Azerbaijani authorities, which just use to spread intolerance and hate to Armenians all over the world. What is to the essence of that "resolution", containing many false statements, we think than it would be of a great use for the authors first to get acquainted with real facts of the Aghdam tragedy, which for a pretty long time appears as a "brand" of official Baku trying to cover own crimes - particularly, massacres in Sumgait, baku and other Azerbaijani cities and villages.
Knights of Malta should also know better that Baku didn't even think about initiating own impartial and professional investigation of the events taken place in late February of 1992, the parliamentary commission formed for that has been designated very fast, the database kept secret, and all the jourtnalists trying to fetch out those events have been imprisoned for long years. And, after all, they would read the interview of the former Azerbaijani president Ayaz Mutalibov, stating that the civil inhabitants of Hodjalu became victims of internal political intrigues in Azerbaijan.