4,400 km2 Population (1989): 190. 000

In this period the most tragical event of XX century happened.

Khojaly Massacre

• Khojaly was Azerbaijan settlement situated in Nagorno Karabakh region
• Population 7.000 people

Khojaly
At night from 25 to 26 February 1992

• The Armenian armed forces supported by the ex-Soviet 366th regiment

attacked the city.

• After all 150 people defending the town were killed
• the remaining handful of the town‟s defendants provided a humanitarian

corridor for several hundreds of the town‟s residents to escape their homes.

• Several thousands of fleeing civilians were ambushed at several points and being shelled by bullet rain. However advances punitive teams of so called NK defense army after eliminating handful of policemen accompanying the refugees column reached out unprotected civilians to slaughter some, finish off others, having some bodies mutilated and scalped as the notorious karabakh war trophies.

In a few hours of night
613 civilians were killed including
106 women,
83 children.
56 people were killed with outrageous brutality, 8 families were totally exterminated,
25 children lost both parents while
30 children lost at least one parent
Massacre which has become the most brutal punishment of civilians during the whole 3 years of the conflict‟s military phase.

• Khojali was the bloodiest massacre in the Armenian-Azerbaijani

conflict over Nagorny Karabakh.
Thomas De Waal

• “The mass killing of civilians in the „free corridor‟ zone and

adjacent territory cannot be justified by any circumstances.”
Memorial Human rights Society

• BBC reporter said he, cameraman and western journalists have seen more than 100 corpses, who are men, women, children massacred by Armenians…..