Original sentence: " The Azeri military staged several ground attacks against the city however they were repulsed each time.According to medieval Armenian sources, the settlement was first mentioned as Vararakn (Վարարակն, meaning “rapid creek,” in Armenian) which it remained until it was renamed Khankendi in 1847.After Azerbaijan declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, it was renamed by the Azerbaijani government back to Khankendi as part of a campaign against Communism and of Azerification, of what had been the autonomous oblast of Nagorno-Karabakh with a majority Armenian population.Azerbaijani sources generally state that the founding of the town is traced to the late 18th century by the Azerbaijani Karabakh khan, and was thus called Khankendi (Khan's village in Azerbaijani).During the war, the city suffered immense damage from Azeri bombardment, especially in early 1992 when the Azeris used the town of Shusha as an artillery firebase to fire GRAD missiles against it.In 1923 it was renamed to Stepanakert, to honor Stepan Shahumyan, an Armenian communist leader from Baku.It was not until May 9, 1992, with the capture of Shusha, that the ground bombardment ceased.So destructive was the damage caused by the incessant bombardment, that an April 1992 report by Time Magazine noted that "scarcely a single building [had] escaped damage in Stepanakert.The city would, however, continue to suffer aerial bombardment for the remainder of the war.There has been an unofficial but observed cease-fire in place since 1994
Edited sentence: After Azerbaijan declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, it was renamed by the Azerbaijani government back to Khankendi.Founding of the town is traced to the late 18th century by the Azerbaijani Karabakh khan, and was thus called Khankandi (Khan's village in Azerbaijani).In 1923 it was renamed to Stepanakert, to honor Stepan Shahumyan, an Armenian communist from Baku who actively participated in massacre of Azerbaijani turks in March, 1915 in Baku and other Azerbaijan towns.There has been an unofficial cease-fire in place since 1994 whcih is regularly broken by Armenians killing nearly 60 to 70 Azeri soldiers a year of cease-fire