February 21, 2021

1992: A minefield for objective reporting

Passport Magazine (Moscow), January 2011 By Helen Womack The collapse of the Soviet Union created a number of “hot spots” of ethnic conflict. In the late […]
February 21, 2021

A tragedy whose perpetrators cannot be vindicated

Svoboda, 12 June 1992 A report by Memorial, the Moscow-based human rights group, on the massive violations of human rights committed in the taking of Khojaly […]
February 21, 2021

Massacre in Khojaly

Time, 16 March 1992 By Jill Smolowe, reported by Yuri Zarakhovich, Moscow While the details are argued, this much is plain: something grim and unconscionable happened […]
February 21, 2021

The face of a massacre

Newsweek, 16 March 1992 By Pascal Privat with Steve Le Vine, Moscow Azerbaijan was a charnel house again last week: a place of mourning refugees and […]
February 21, 2021

The West witnessed the scene of the Armenian massacre. Russian soldiers admit: “We were persuaded to fight Azerbaijanis”

Milliyyet, 15 March 1992 “Death is wandering the green hills” Foreign Press Centre While it was said that there had been a confrontation between forces of […]
February 21, 2021

I saw the massacre in Karabakh

Milliyyet, 15 March 1992 By Rahbar Bashiroghlu I was born and grew up in Karabakh. I wouldn’t change a stone of Karabakh for the most beautiful […]
February 21, 2021

Crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh

The Irish Times, 12 March 1992 Sir, – To enable your readers to have a more objective assessment of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh the following points […]
February 21, 2021

Morgues fill as Azeris head for all-out war

The Sunday Times, 8 March 1992 By Thomas Goltz, the first to report the massacre by Armenian soldiers, reports from Aghdam Khojaly used to be a […]
February 21, 2021

Karabakh falls prey to revenge

The Independent, 8 March 1992 By Helen Womack, Aghdam, Azerbaijan “WHEN Armenians get killed you simply report it. When our people die you say they were […]
February 21, 2021

The Karabakh Knot “Hot spots” stretch to the front line

Pravda, 7 March 1992 By Zaur Kadymbekov (Pravda correspondent) The Khojaly Tragedy Elman Mammadov, the head of the town’s executive authority, lost 22 of his relatives […]
February 21, 2021

The Karabakh Tragedy

Trud, 6 March 1992 Over one thousand killed, including women, children and the elderly, hundreds wounded, missing in action, taken hostage – this is the toll […]
February 21, 2021

Armenians ‘hold Azeris hostage’

The Independent, 6 March 1992 By Helen Womack, Aghdam, Azerbaijan Azeri officials say as many as 600 civilians may have survived last week’s massacre in the […]