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KHOJALY GENOCIDE
Officially, 184 people have so far been certified
as dead, being the number of people that could be
medically examined by the republic’s forensic de-
partment. “This is just a small percentage of the
dead”, said Rafiq Youssifov, the republic’s chief fo-
rensic scientist. “They were the only bodies brought
to us. Remember the chaos and the fact that we are
Muslims and have to wash and bury our dead within
24 hours”.
Of these 184 people, 51 were women, and 13 were
children under 14 years old. Gunshots killed 151
people, shrapnel killed 20 and axes or blunt instru-
ments killed 10. Exposure in the highland snows
killed the last three. Thirty-three people showed
signs of deliberate mutilation, including ears, noses,
breasts or penises cut off and eyes gouged out, ac-
cording to Professor Youssifov’s report. Those 184
bodies examined were less than a third of those be-
lieved to have been killed, Mr. Rasulov said.
“There were too many bodies of dead and wounded
on the ground to count properly: 470-500 in Kho-
jaly, 650-700 people by the stream and the road and
85-100 visible around Nakhchivanik village”, Mr.
Manafov wrote in a statement countersigned by the
helicopter pilot.
“People waved up to us for help. We saw three dead
children and one two-years-old alive by one dead
woman. The live one was pulling at her arm for the
mother to get up. We tried to land but Armenians
started a barrage against our helicopter and we had
to return”.
There has been no consolidation of the lists and fig-
ures in circulation because of the political upheav-
als of the last few months and the fact that nobody
knows exactly who was in Khojaly at the time -
many inhabitants were displaced from other villag-
es taken over by Armenian forces.