“They laid the wounded on the ground and ran over them with a tank…” – MISSING – VUSALA MAMMADOVA WRITES |

We commemorate Huseynov Aladdin Abil oghlu in Pressklub.az’s “Missing” project. He is remembered by his mother Asya Huseynova and brother Valaddin Huseynov:

– In my brother’s documents, the date of birth was written on May 28, 1968, so he was so happy that I was born on the Republic Day.

– But in fact it is not. Aladdin was born on September 28. We lived in Baku. My mother said child come to Gafan near the birth, keep an eye on me. Thus, Aladdin was born in Gafan. When my mother went to collect the documents, she said that “it happened on the 28th of the month”. There they understood the word “moon” as “may” and wrote it like that… Before Aladdin, I had a son and a daughter, after that I had a daughter, and then another son was born. Three sons, all three fought in Karabakh. And my daughter’s wife. She also had two babies…

– In general, our family is very patriotic. My father’s grandfather, Mehdi, played a big role in our upbringing and thinking. My grandfather lived 120 years. He was born in 1852 and died in 1973. He had seen two world wars, he knew Gachaq Nabi… but he had no eyes to see the Soviet Union…

– My children are Turkish. So was their late father. To be honest, I learned to love my country from my wife. What is a nation, I learned from him…

– Back in the 70s, when we went to Gafan, my father showed us the border and said that the other side of the barbed wire is Azerbaijan. Aladdin and I were amazed at how Araz’s face and face looked like Azerbaijan can be? Then we saw that one person on this side and another person on the other side were shouting and talking to each other in Azerbaijani. Aladdin and I understood Azerbaijanism then…

– Aladdin’s biggest dream is complete Azerbaijan was! He had very good sculpture and painting skills. Back in 1985-1987, he wished to erect a statue of Babek in place of Kirov’s statue. And in Guneshli, Koroglu… has a big sword in his hand…

– He loved literature and poetry. of World Literature 100 was subscribed to volume. He was thinking of making a statue of all the authors. Originally started with Homer, failed to continue…

– The small bust of Homer was my child’s first handmade work… I keep it to this day. He had painted a perfect painting on the balcony door. Actually, that picture was too small in the book, he had enlarged it. Mother, one of the children is in her arms, and the other is at her feet… But she didn’t draw the girl’s face like in the book… It was the face of the girl she loved, the girl she studied in the same class…

– Frankly, Aladdin was the smartest among us. The least talkative, the most knowledgeable, the wisest. And very handsome… I’m a historian, but by God, Aladdin knew history better than me. He loved literature. At that time, he used to come and go to the “Vatan” Society a lot. Ramiz Rovshan with Mohammed Araz was my brother’s favorite poets.

– They studied in the same class with the writer Fakhri Uğurlu, they were close friends…

– They were like brothers in honor, but not so close to us. The late Agha Lachinli always said that I owe a lot to Aladdin because he had a positive influence on Fakhri.

– After finishing school military served in Ukraine, was a tankman. After returning, he worked on the railways and wanted to study painting. But no luck…

– My younger brother is real military was in service, fought in Fuzuli. I was a history teacher, we lived in a rented house. My son Tural was not yet one year old, and our daughter was going to be born. The summer of 1992 had just begun, a mother whose four sons had been killed in the war was shown on television. I don’t remember his name exactly, it was either Gultekin or Gulchohra. The woman took a weapon and fought… I thought that I am a man, why should I sit at home? As a teacher, what will I say in front of the children tomorrow? I stood up and left military to the commissariat. It was June 12, from there I called home that I was going to the front… I fought in the 708th military unit until classes started. We were in Agdam, very heavy battles were going on in the directions of Nakhchivanik, Aranzemin, Pirjamal, Papravand, Janyatag, Gulyatag…

– In those days, his father told Aladdin that your brothers are fighting, why are you at home? He replied that I will go whenever the government calls. He doesn’t call yet. In November 1992, a summons from the military commissariat came and went…

– Vagif Jabbarov was a tankman in Lachin’s battalion in Gulabird. Bibioglu was an artillery commander in Gubadli, he wanted to bring Aladdin to him. He prepared all his documents, but Aladdin said, I am staying here. Here, 4 with 4 Armenian tanks Azerbaijan I dismantled the tank, put it together and made 8 tanks. I am the commander of the tanks I am repairing, I am not going anywhere. That’s why it happened that his name went with his cousin, and he himself was in Vagif’s group…

– He came on vacation in the summer. He brought a notebook with him, which contained the home addresses and phone numbers of his friends… He also wrote down his memories… He talked a lot. child It was not said, but when he came, he asked me for pilaf… He loved pilaf very much…

– Then I asked Ali, have you ever killed an Armenian? He said no… I was surprised, he came back saying did you kill him? I said, of course! There was so much in the battle that… I was interrupted by the fact that I had the opportunity, but I did not fire. He was very religious, he said, I can’t kill a person, God created him…

– My son was such a person… God only knows what happened to such a son…

– It was September 23, 1993. I came from the 40th ceremony of my aunt’s daughter who died of cancer, they said at home that my friend passed away. I went to Daphne… I returned very sad, and as soon as I got home, my aunt’s daughter’s friend came to ask what Aladdin had said. news? None news We said no, he started crying… “Aladdin burned together with the tank” he said…

– Don’t tell me, my sister-in-law’s son hid it from us, told his uncle, and he stood up and came to us…

– As soon as we received the news, we immediately left with my father. It turned out that the incident happened on August 31, the day Gubadli was occupied. Also on my son Tural’s birthday…

– Since then, we do not celebrate my grandson’s birthday.

– There were three people in Aladdingil tank. They saw a tank with an Azerbaijani flag coming in Bala Soltanli village of Gubadli and went towards it. You say it is an Armenian tank. According to his fellow fighters, the driver got off and ran into the forest, while Aladdin and the other soldier captive they took They said that it was impossible to get closer, we were watching from afar with binoculars. They saw that the head of the captives was beaten against the tank, and the gun was held at their throats…

– My sister’s children had many friends in Gafan, they tried to establish contact. We hoped that maybe they would look for it among the captives… None news we didn’t get it.

– My father and I went to the Red Cross many times. He did not find official confirmation that he was in captivity. You know, the Armenians were very cruel, I don’t believe that they would keep the soldiers alive. Obviously, from the occupation free As mass graves are found in the affected areas, I expect that we will finally be given a news. But there is always a voice inside me saying that maybe he came…

– No, son, wait… I saw his dream. Even before the news came, I dreamed that he entered a thorny place. The thorns are also very big, black, dense… It sinks my son… I say, son, why did you go there, don’t you see those thorns? Can a person enter it? I also saw that I was sleeping soldier he slept next to me in his clothes, he didn’t wake up, he slept soundly… However, he was so big that… Seeing a person too big in a dream is not a good sign… You know, they once showed it on the ANS channel… It was a flat place, the Armenians laid our wounded soldiers on the ground and drove a tank over them. One of the wounded looked like my child. I saw it with my own eyes on the air. That day I became very bad…

– To fire at the enemy in war hand look at what happens to a person who doesn’t come…

– She was such a sensitive and attentive person that… When she saw that I was a little sick, she would clean the house so beautifully… No other woman had such neatness. It would make everyone laugh that my mother is sick…

– We both worked, I spent the salary on myself, and he brought it to my mother and said, buy whatever you want…

– I am also a mother, I was collecting for her. I was seeing wedding supplies. I also bought jewelry. Everything I bought in the name of Aladdin, I keep until now. I will keep the gifts I bought for the bride, Aladdin’s suit and shirt… until my last day…

Vusala Mammadova