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KHOJALY GENOCIDE
Azerbaijan was a charnel house again last week: a place of mourning refugees and dozens of mangled corpses
dragged to a makeshift morgue behind the mosque. They were ordinary Azerbaijani men, women and children
of Khojaly, a small village in war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh overrun by Armenian forces on Feb. 25-26. Many
were killed at close range while trying to flee; some had their faces mutilated, others were scalped. While the
victims’ families mourned.
While the details are argued, this much is plain: something grim and unconscionable happened in the Azer-
baijani town of Khojaly two weeks ago. So far, some 200 dead Azerbaijanis, many of them mutilated, have
been transported out of the town tucked inside the Armenian-dominated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh for
burial in neighboring Azerbaijan. The total number of deaths - the Azerbaijanis claim 1,324 civilians have
been slaughtered, most of them women and children - is unknown.
Videotapes circulated by the Azerbaijanis include images of defaced civilians, some of them scalped, others
shot in the head...
By Pascal Privat with Steve Le Vine, Moscow
By Jill Smolowe with Yuri Zarakhovich, Moscow
Newsweek, 16 March 1992, “The face of a massacre”
Time, 16 March 1992, “Massacre in Khojaly”