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HRW calls it both a massacre and a tragedy. De Waal says: ""I do not think it was intentional. I think that in any war events occur very quickly, spontaneously. But still, I wonder how interpreted. Course, we must look again at the text, but I do not think that it was a deliberate action, approved on, I think it was a war, it was a very chaotic situation"".http://www.regnum.ru/news/1345021.html#ixzz2w0Tw1sOI Massacres are generally defined as planned actions; this took place under the fog of war. Using the term ""massacre"" is not only POV and controversial, but opens the doors for anti-Armenian racists and the Azerbaijani dictatorship's apologists to start using even more nongermane labels such as ""genocide"".  "