9-year-old Lafkhanim Mahmudova, whom National Hero Chingiz Mustafayev talked to in Khojaly, currently lives in Ashagi Agjakend settlement of Goranboy region. "It was the night of the Khojaly tragedy, it would be around 23:00 in the evening. My father made a place to hide during the shooting. We were under the ground when we heard gunshots. We also saw a Turkish woman living in the neighborhood say that the Armenians filled the village, they captured ours and left. " A nine-year-old girl grabs her older sister's hand and walks with her parents to the center of the village: "They took us in their arms to the Gargar River and we crossed the river. My brother, sister, me and others went to the forest. We stayed in the woods for nine days, unable to find our way. Hey, I was crying for you to give me bread. Not bread, where to buy? My father told me not to cry. I will buy you a lot of bread when I get to Agdam, but don't cry. Then they would come to our voices. " Lafkhanim Mahmudova says that we could not walk because of the cold: “After crossing the Gargar River, we walked in the woods so much that my father's boots were heavy on his feet, it was cold and he walked barefoot. We were able to find the way after three days, and when we passed through that area, we saw the boots there. ” During the days they went missing in the forest, they crushed and ate trees: “This brother you see now was crushing the bark of a tree and giving it to me to eat. After all, there was nothing. Nine days of oppression, snowstorms, suffering and bad days ... Both my feet and my parents froze under the snow. We didn't feel anything without freezing, whether you were walking on a tree or a bush. We were so frozen ... ” He says his family members were killed in the Khojaly tragedy: "On the ninth day, my brother's eight-month-old pregnant wife was killed. My grandmother could not walk, so they shot her. We could not bring. We were taken prisoner because we could not find our way. There were no more atrocities in front of my eyes that were not allowed ... I hid my hands below, they raised my arm with the butt of a machine gun and said that you should keep your hands up! ” Nine days later, his family and himself were taken prisoner: “We were brought to the stable in Pirjamal. We arrived with 70 people who had been traveling with us for nine days. Men were oppressed before our eyes. They smashed his eyes with the butt of a machine gun. They broke their ribs. They were brushing their teeth. " Lafkhanim Mahmudova still suffers from that tragedy: "We have been living here in the mountains for many years. Even today, when it is foggy and drizzle in these mountains, I do not go out for fear.
I live again and again, I think I'm there ... Sometimes I dream about my childhood, the places I played ... I hope my children will go and see those places. " Lafkhanim, who lost her childhood and was tortured in front of her relatives and herself at the age of nine, said she was hospitalized for three months and 25 days after the incident. "I, my sisters, my father and mother had their legs amputated. Although 28 years have passed, the wounds on my mother's leg do not heal. ” It seems that displacement is the foreword of my childhood years - said Lafkhanim, remembering that she took refuge in Aghdara, Aghdam after Khojaly ... She says that the places where we took refuge were later occupied and her eyes widen.
The young girl settled in Oguz as a last resort and got married there. She is a mother of one daughter and two sons. "My children grew up with my childhood," said a living resident of the Khojaly tragedy. When her feet hurt, she hurts for Khojaly. Lafkhanim's fragile heart: "Thankfully, our native lands are returning. Thank you, Supreme Commander-in-Chief. We will return and live with our children, and they will grow up there. "
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