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KHOJALY GENOCIDE
As we swooped low over the snow-covered hills of Nagorno-Karabagh
we saw the scattered corpses. Apparently, the refugees had been shot
down as they ran. An Azerbaijani film of the places we flew over,
shown to journalists afterwards, showed dozens of corpses lying in
various parts of the hills.
The Azerbaijanis claim that as many as 1000 have died in a mass
killing of Azerbaijanis fleeing from the town of Khodjaly, seized by
Armenians last week. A further 4,000 are believed to be wounded,
frozen to death or missing.
The civilian helicopter’s job was to land in the mountains and pick up
bodies at sites of the mass killings.
The civilian helicopter picked up four corpses, and it was during this
and a previous mission that an Azerbaijani cameraman filmed the sev-
eral dozen bodies on the hillsides.
Back at the airfield in Aghdam, we took a look at the bodies the ci-
vilian helicopter had picked up. Two old men and small girl were
covered with blood, their limbs contorted by the cold and rigor mortis.
They had been shot.
By Anatol Lieven
The Times, 2 March 1992,
“Corpses litter hills in Karabakh”