Khojaly massacre

The Khojaly Massacre was the murder^[1] of hundreds of ethnic Azerbaijani civilians^[2] from the town of Khojaly in Azerbaijan on 25–26 February 1992 by the Armenian armed forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.^[3][4][5]

There were 613 people killed, including 424 men, 106 women and 83 children.^[6] The massacre was the largest massacre of the Nagorno-Karabakh War.^[7]

1. ↑ de Waal, Thomas (2004). Black garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through peace and war. ABC-CLIO. pp. 172–173. ISBN 0-8147-1945-7.
2. ↑ Randolph, Joseph Russell (2008). Hot spot: North America and Europe. ABC-CLIO. p. 191. ISBN 0-313-33621-0.
3. ↑ New York Times - Massacre by Armenians Being Reported
4. ↑ "TIME Magazine - Tragedy Massacre in Khojaly". Archived from the original on 2005-02-28. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
5. ↑ Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus By Svante E. Cornell
6. ↑ Letter from the Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan to the United Nations Office
7. ↑ Human Rights Watch / Helsinki Azerbaijan. Seven Years of Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. New York • Washington • Los Angeles • London • Brussels: 1994, p. 6. ISBN 1-56432-142-8

• Bloodshed in the Caucasus: escalation of the armed conflict in Nagorno Karabakh. Human Rights Watch, 1992. ISBN 1-56432-081-2, ISBN 978-1-56432-081-0

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