ARMENIA TERRORIST PEOPLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! ARMENIA TERRORIST STATE!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!! The Khojaly massacre, also known as the Khojaly tragedy, was the killing[3] of hundreds of ethnic Azerbaijani civilians[4] from the town of Khojaly on 25–26 February 1992 by the Armenian and, partially, by CIS armed forces during the Battle of Khojaly of the Nagorno-Karabak h War. According to the Azerbaijani side, as well as Memorial Human Rights Center, Human Rights Watch and other international observers,[5][6 ] the massacre was committed by the ethnic Armenian armed forces, reportedly with help of the Russian 366th Motor Rifle Regiment, apparently not acting on orders from the command.[7][8] The death toll claimed by Azerbaijani authorities is 613 civilians, including 106 women and 83 children.[9] The event became the largest massacre in the course of Nagorno-Karabak h conflict.[2] According to British journalist Thomas De Waal the tragedy in Khojaly was a result of a chaotic situation, and not a deliberately planned action by the Armenians.[10][ 11] A report published in 1992 by the human rights organization Helsinki Watch stated that their inquiry found that the Azerbaijani OMON special units and the militia, still in uniform and some still carrying their guns, were interspersed with the masses of civilians which may have been the reason why Armenian troops fired upon them.[12] The same report notes that Armenian fighters had maintained that they [Armenians] made an ultimantum to Azerbaijani forces in Khojaly warning that unless missile attacks from that town on Stepanakert ceased, Armenian forces would attack.[12] Western governments and the western media refer to it as the Khojaly massacre or Khojaly tragedy. Azerbaijani sources[13] [14] occasionally refer to the massacre as Khojaly genocide (Azerbaijani: Xocalı soyqırımı, Turkish: Hocalı soykırımı) and the Khojaly tragedy (Azerbaijani: Xocalı faciəsi).
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