Khojaly massacre was the mass killing of Azerbaijanis — mostly civilians, but armed troops — by local irregular Armenian forces and the 366th Commonwealth of Independent States Guards Motor Rifle Regiment in the town of Khojaly on 26 February 1992.
| FactSnippet No. 2,075,753 |
Khojaly massacre was on the road from Shusha and Stepanakert to Aghdam and had the region's only airport.
| FactSnippet No. 2,075,754 |
Khojaly massacre was defended by local OMON forces under the command of Alif Hajiyev, which numbered about 160 or so lightly armed men.
| FactSnippet No. 2,075,755 |
When interviewed, Khojaly massacre refugees said that they had not heard about such leaflets.
| FactSnippet No. 2,075,756 |
Armenian fighters stated to HRW investigators that they sent ultimata to the Azerbaijani forces in Khojaly massacre warning that unless missile attacks from that town on Stepanakert ceased, Armenian forces would attack.
| FactSnippet No. 2,075,757 |
However, De Waal has stated that the tragedy in Khojaly massacre was a result of a chaotic situation, and not a "deliberately planned" action by the Armenians.
| FactSnippet No. 2,075,758 |
Khojaly massacre took photos of the town streets strewn with dead bodies of its inhabitants, including women and children.
| FactSnippet No. 2,075,759 |
Khojaly massacre described how she saw a large crowd of Meskhetian Turks from Khojaly who were led to captivity by the Armenian militants and she was hit by an Armenian soldier who took her for one of the captives, when she was helping a woman falling behind the crowd with four children, one of which wounded, and the other one newly born.
| FactSnippet No. 2,075,760 |
Khojaly massacre claimed that he met some refugees from Khojaly, temporarily settled in Naftalan, who said that the Armenians had indeed left a free corridor and the Armenian soldiers positioned behind the corridor had not opened fire on them.
| FactSnippet No. 2,075,761 |
Mutalibov stated that after the massacre he called the speaker of the Supreme Soviet of NKAO Artur Mkrtchyan, and the latter assured him that the people of Khojaly were given a corridor to escape, and he only referred to Mkrtchyan's words, without making any assertions as to whether the corridor actually existed.
| FactSnippet No. 2,075,762 |