From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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Subject: Some with their FACES MUTILATED or HEADS CUT OFF: Where was "Kiselev"?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 22:29:16 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <1992Dec14.075405.23842@netcom.com> oleg@netcom.com (Oleg Kiselev) writes:

>In article <9212132117@zuma.UUCP> sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic) writes:
>[100+ lines of propaganda deleted]

How primitive. Ah, those poor naive "wieneramus". 

        The Age...Melbourne...6/3/92

        By Helen WOMACK  .... Agdam, Azerbaijan, Thursday

        The exact number of victims is still unclear,  but there can be 
        little  doubt that Azeri civilians were massacred  by  Armenian 
        fighters in the snowy mountains of Nagorno-Karabakh last week. 

        Refugees  from the enclave town of Khojaly,  sheltering in  the 
        Azeri border town of Agdam, give largely consistent accounts of 
        how  their  enemies  attacked their homes on the  night  of  25 
        February,    chased  those  who  fled  and  shot  them  in  the 
        surrounding forests. Yesterday, I saw 75  freshly dug graves in 
        one  cemetery  in  addition to four mutilated corpses  we  were 
        shown in the mosque when we arrived in Agdam late on Tuesday. I 
        also  saw women and children with bullet wounds in a  makeshift 
        hospital in a string of railway carriages. 

        Khojaly, an Azeri settlement in the enclave mostly populated by 
        Armenians,  had a population of about 6000. Mr.  Rashid Mamedov 
        Commander of Police in Agdam,  said  only about 500  escaped to 
        his  town.   " So where are the rest?".  Some might have  taken 
        prisoner, he said, or fled. Many bodies were still lying in the 
        mountains  because  the  Azeris were short  of  helicopters  to 
        retrieve them. He believed more than 1000 had perished, some of 
        cold in temperatures as low as minus 10 degrees. 

        One  refugee,  Rami Nasiru,  described how Khojaly residents at 
        first thought the attack was no more than the routine  shooting 
        to  which they had become accustomed in four years of conflict. 
        But  when  they  saw the Armenians with  a  convoy  of  armored 
        personnel carriers, they realised they could not hope to defend 
        themselves  with  machineguns and grenades,  and fled into  the 
        forests. In the small hours, the massacre started. 

        Mr.  Nasiru,  who believes his wife and two children were taken 
        prisoner,   repeated what many other refugees have said -  that 
        troops of the former Soviet army helped the Armenians to attack 
        Khojaly. "It is not my opinion, I saw it with my own eyes." 

        ..........

>I see Hasan Mutlu did not get too inconvenienced by being fired by AT&T.
>Now he can spend all his time posting crap.  

Our "mutlu"? Somebody stole your brain cells? This must be the joke of the 
century. Just love it.

        NEWS.....FROM... The Age , Melbourne , Australia

        Moscow, Tuesday...

        Armed groups and civilian protesters today halted the withdrawal 
        of former Soviet troops from their base in the fiercely disputed 
        enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. 

        A  spokesman for the Commonwealth of independent  States'   army 
        said one of the withdrawing regiment's soldiers,  a sergeant, was 
        shot  and  killed in sporadic shooting during the night  on  the 
        capital of the enclave and site of the troops' shattered base. 

        "The situation ... is difficult.  The pullout has been suspended 
        and  delayed," he said.  "It is impossible to continue  moving 
        because  exit  routes  are blocked by  residents  and  by  armed 
        groups." 

        Azeri officials have been recovering dozens of bodies,  many  of 
        them  mutilated,   after  Armenian forces overran  the  town  of 
        Khodjali  last  week.   Armenia denies Azeri  allegations  of  a 
        massacre said to have claimed up to 1000 lives. 

        Azeri officials who flew into the enclave yesterday brought back 
        the bodies of three CHILDREN with the BACK OF THEIR HEADS  BLOWN 
        OFF. Witnesses said dozens more dead were scattered on the hills 
        near the town. 

        Truckloads  of bodies from were being brought back to the  Azeri 
        border town of Agdam, where they were laid out in a mosque, some 
        with their FACES MUTILATED or HEADS CUT OFF.  Other bodies  were 
        charred. 

Serdar Argic

                     'This war quickly developed into one of extermination. 
                      We closed the roads and mountain passes that might 
                      serve as ways of escape for the Tartars [Turks] and 
                      then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
                                                       (Ohanus Appressian)

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