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

Khojaly Massacre
Location	Khojaly, Azerbaijan
Date	25–26 February 1992
Target	Azerbaijani people
Attack type	Massacre
Deaths	613 civilians
Perpetrators	Armenians

References

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

Other websites

• 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