Khojaly Witness of a War Crime : Armenia in the Dock
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It was one of the worst episodes of the Nagorno-Karabakh war. For months, the townspeople of Khojaly, Azerbaijan, had endured nightly shelling by invading Armenian forces, which gradually surrounded the town. By 25 February 1992 all escape routes had been cut off. Armenian tanks, artillery and troops moved in, and so began the calculated finale to a crime against humanity.
The inhabitants of Khojaly fled, wading across the freezing Gargar river and through the forested mountains. Emerging onto open land near the village of Nakhchivanik, they found none of the safety they'd hoped for, instead presenting easy targets for the Armenian guns awaiting them there.
The townspeople's crime? As Azerbaijanis, they were inadvertent obstacles to the abstract dream of a "Greater Armenia".
Western journalists reporting on these savage events encountered doubts from their editors back home: surely they had confused aggressors with victims? They had not; and to help combat such misapprehensions, this book gathers first-hand a
Author:
FIONA MACLACHAN
Cover:
Твердый переплет
Language:
ENG
Number of pages:
248
Publisher:
Teas Press
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