Azerbaijani men with the body of an Azerbaijani killed during Khojaly Massacre in Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo taken March 10 1992. Baku, Azerbaijan.
Baku, Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani men preparing the body of an Azerbaijani for burial in a cemetery in Baku. The man was killed during the Khojaly Massacre on Feb. 26th 1992. Over 200 ethnic Azerbaijani civilians were killed by Armenian armed forces in the town of Khojaly in Nagorno-Karabakh. Ethnically Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh, called Artsakh by Armenians, is a disputed territory in the South Caucasus Mountains that is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. Karabakh has become known as Europe’s oldest frozen war, with Turkey backing Azerbaijan and Russia supporting Armenia. The modern conflict in Karabakh began at the end of the Soviet Union (SU) in the late 1980’s and escalated in late 1991 with the dissolution of the SU. Karabakh declared itself an independent republic, which was not recognized internationally. In 1991 the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan became a full-scale war which ended in 1994 with a Russian negotiated ceasefire. That ceasefire ended in September of 2020 after Azerbaijani launched a military offensive to retake territory around Karabakh. Before the latest Russian brokered ceasefire in 2020 it is estimated that thousands of Armenian and Azeri’s have been displaced or killed.
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Location: Cemetery, Baku, Azerbaijan
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