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 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