page_title: Khojaly massacre
hierarchical_section_title: Khojaly massacre
caption_attribution_description: English: 20th remembrance day of Khojaly Genocide in The Hague, Netherlands.
context_page_description: The Khojaly massacre, also known as the Khojaly tragedy, was the mass murder of at least 161 ethnic Azerbaijani civilians from the town of Khojaly on 26 February 1992. According to the Azerbaijani side, as well as the Memorial Human Rights Center, Human Rights Watch and other international observers, the massacre was committed by the ethnic Armenian armed forces, as well as some military personnel of the 366th CIS regiment who were not acting on orders from their command. The death toll claimed by Azerbaijani authorities is 613 civilians, including 106 women and 63 children. The event became the largest massacre in the course of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
  Western governments and media use "Khojaly massacre", "Khojaly tragedy" or the "Battle for Khojaly" to refer to the incident. Azerbaijani sources occasionally refer to the massacre as the "Khojaly genocide" and the "Khojaly tragedy".
context_section_description: The Khojaly massacre, also known as the Khojaly tragedy, was the mass murder of at least 161 ethnic Azerbaijani civilians from the town of Khojaly on 26 February 1992. According to the Azerbaijani side, as well as the Memorial Human Rights Center, Human Rights Watch and other international observers, the massacre was committed by the ethnic Armenian armed forces, as well as some military personnel of the 366th CIS regiment who were not acting on orders from their command. The death toll claimed by Azerbaijani authorities is 613 civilians, including 106 women and 63 children. The event became the largest massacre in the course of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
  Western governments and media use "Khojaly massacre", "Khojaly tragedy" or the "Battle for Khojaly" to refer to the incident. Azerbaijani sources occasionally refer to the massacre as the "Khojaly genocide" (Azerbaijani: Xocalı soyqırımı) and the "Khojaly tragedy" (Azerbaijani: Xocalı faciəsi).
caption: Khojaly Massacre Memorial in The Hague, Netherlands
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