Deghati wrote: “After killing many residents, forcing others to leave barefoot, and without letting them take any of their belongings, the Armenian military occupied the city of Aghdam in 1992. They looted houses, offices, shops, cultural centers, museums, worship places, then sold the doors, windows, roof beams, water pipes, to the Iranian merchants and in Armenia. As an Architect and after forty years of experience being in many war zones in the world, I realized that these destructions are not the result of military action, but deliberate looting. I came to this flourishing and beautiful city in March 1992 to photograph the massacre of the population of a nearby city "Khojaly.”
The world-renowned photojournalist said after 28 years, he returned to Aghdam on November 21, 2020, which marked the first anniversary of the liberation of Aghdam.
“I still feel the wave of shocks in my mind and soul. Please share, with the hope that it will never happen again, nowhere in the world,” Deghati added.
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