Khojaly Massacre
Also known as Khojali Massacre, Khojaly tragedy, Khojaly Genocide
mass murder of Azerbaijani civilians in the town of Khojaly
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The Khojaly Massacre was a mass killing of Azerbaijani civilians in the town of Khojaly during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in 1992. It remains a significant and contested event in the region's history, with deep importance to Azerbaijani national memory and ongoing disputes about the circumstances and responsibility for what occurred.
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The Khojaly massacre (Azerbaijani: Xocalı soyqırımı, Armenian: Խոջալուի արյունահեղություն, romanized: Khojalui aryunaheghut’yun) was the mass killing of Azerbaijani civilians by Armenian forces and the 366th CIS regiment in the town of Khojaly on 26 February 1992. The event became the largest single massacre throughout the entire Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Khojaly was an Azerbaijani-populated town of some 6,300 people in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan SSR, also housing the region's only airport in 1992. The town was subject to daily shelling and total blockade by Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Without supply of electricity, gas, or water, it was defended by the local forces consisting of about 160 lightly armed men. The Armenian forces, along with some troops of the 366th CIS regiment, launched an offensive in early 1992, forcing almost the entire Azerbaijani population of the enclave to flee, and committing "unconscionable acts of violence against civilians" as they fled.