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Survivors reported that Armenian soldiers shot and
bayoneted more than 450 Azeris, many of them
women and children. Hundreds, possibly thousands,
were missing and feared dead.
The attackers killed most of the soldiers and volun-
teers defending the women and children. They then
turned their guns on the terrified refugees. The few
survivors later described what happened: “That’s
when the real slaughter began”, said Azer Hajiev, one
of three soldiers to survive. “The Armenians just shot
and shot. And then they came in and started carving
up people with their bayonets and knives”.
“They were shooting, shooting, shooting”, echoed
Rasia Aslanova, who arrived in Aghdam with other
women and children who made their way through
Armenian lines. She said her husband, Kayun, and
a son-in-law were massacred in front of her. Her
daughter was still missing.
One boy who arrived inAghdam had an ear sliced off.
The survivors said 2000 others, some of whom had
fled separately, were still missing in the gruelling ter-
rain; many could perish from their wounds or the cold.
By late yesterday, 479 deaths had been registered at
the morgue in Aghdam, and 29 bodies had been bur-
ied in the cemetery. Of the seven corpses I saw await-
ing burial, two were children and three were women,
one shot through the chest at point blank range.
Aghdam hospital was a scene of carnage and ter-
ror. Doctors said they had 140 patients who escaped
slaughter, most with bullet injuries or deep stab
wounds.
Nor were they safe in Aghdam. On Friday night rock-
ets fell on the city which has a population of 150,000,
destroying several buildings and killing one person.
By Thomas Goltz, Aghdam, Azerbaijan
The Sunday Times, 1 March 1992,
“Armenian soldiers massacre hundreds of fleeing families”