Khojaly massacre

The Khojaly Massacre was the murder of hundreds of ethnic Azerbaijani civilians from the town of Khojaly in Azerbaijan on 25–26 February 1992 by the Armenian armed forces  during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.New York Times - Massacre by Armenians Being ReportedSmall Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus By Svante E. Cornell

There were 613 people killed, including 424 men, 106 women and 83 children.Letter from the Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan to the United Nations Office The massacre was the largest massacre of the Nagorno-Karabakh War.Human Rights Watch / Helsinki Azerbaijan. Seven Years of Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. New York  • Washington  • Los Angeles  • London  • Brussels: 1994, p. 6. 

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 Bloodshed in the Caucasus: escalation of the armed conflict in Nagorno Karabakh. Human Rights Watch, 1992. , 
Azerbaijani websites
 Justice for Khojaly
Armenian websites
 "Azerbaijan turned Khojaly into a launch pad for indiscriminate bombardment of Karabakh", Office of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Washington DC

Category:Massacres in Azerbaijan
Category:War crimes
Category:Anti-Azerbaijanism
Category:1990s in Armenia
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