KHOJALY
26/02/1992
26/02/1992
On the night of February 26, 1992, the Armenian armed forces committed a deliberate act of massacre in Khojaly, a small town in Karabakh, Azerbaijan. During that night 613 people were killed including 106 women, 63 children, and 70 elderly people. Most of them especially the women and children were shot at close range, scalped, burnt alive, had their eyes gorged out, or were beheaded, and one pregnant woman was bayoneted in the abdomen. Those who escaped the gunfire with wounds had to trek through the mountains to safety and many perished in the -10 ° C.
A further 1 275 people were taken prisoner some of the prisoners were shot dead. Those who survived fled to the city of Agdam, they went to the mosque which was being used as a morgue to search for their loved ones who had disappeared. Each day they wandered among the dozens of corpses wrapped in body bags brought to Agdam by the Red Cross. As they examined their faces, they discovered the horrors perpetrated by the Armenian soldiers.
