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A foreign journalist in Aghdam saw women and three children, scalped and with their nails pulled out among
the dead. This was not “Azerbaijani propaganda”, but reality.
Le Monde, 14 March 1992
The report of Memorial on the massive violations
of human rights committed in the taking of Khojaly
says of the civilians’ flight from the town: “The fu-
gitives fell into ambushes set by the Armenians and
came under fire. Some of them nonetheless man-
aged to get into Aghdam; others, mostly women and
children (exactly how many it is impossible to say),
froze to death while lost in the mountains; others
still, according to testimony from those who reached
Aghdam, were taken prisoner near the villages of
Pirdzhamal and Nakhichevanik. There is evidence
from inhabitants of Khojaly who have already been
exchanged that some of the prisoners were shot.
Around 200 bodies were brought into Aghdam in
the space of four days. Scores of the corpses bore
traces of profanation. Doctors on a hospital train in
Aghdam noted no less than four corpses that had
been scalped and one that had been beheaded. State
forensic examinations were carried out in Aghdam
on 181 corpses (130 male and 51 female, including
13 children): the findings were that 151 people had
died from gunshot wounds, 20 from shrapnel wounds
and 10 from blows inflicted with a blunt instrument.
The records of the hospital train in Aghdam, through
which almost all the injured inhabitants or defenders
of Khojaly passed, refer to 598 cases of wounds or
frostbite (cases of frostbite being in the majority) and
one case of live scalping”.
СВОБОДА
A report by Memorial, the Moscow-based human rights group
Svoboda, 12 June 1992,
“A tragedy whose perpetrators cannot be vindicated”