FOOTNOTE #1 -- Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan 150-9, Bashir Safaroglu Street, 370000 Baku, Azerbaijan Tel+994-12-947550, fax 987555, e-mail: eldar@hrcenter.baku.az In Xocali region (with villages) - 10,304 people (2,430 families). Displaced people from Xocali region is living now (families/peop- le): * in cities: Baku - 690/3081 Gence - 441/1796 Mingechevir - 103/452 Naftalan - 370/1372 Sumqayit - 43/162 Ali-Bayramli - 3/13 * as well in provinces: Agdam - 18/88 Agdash - 15/78 Agcabedi - 107/570 Absheron - 18/71 Astara - 1/6 Agsu - 27/125 Balakan - 16/60 Beylaqan - 11/56 Barda - 245/1021 Qebele - 7/44 Haciqabul - 1/5 Qah - 3/20 Qobustan - 1/5 Quba - 6/25 Qusar - 1/3 Devechi - 12/44 Calilabad - 2/10 Yevlax - 35/148 Zaqatala - 9/30 Imishli - 5/26 Ismayilli - 20/90 Kurdamir - 3/12 Masalli - 1/1 Oguz - 53/231 Saatli - 10/32 Sabirabad - 30/121 Salyan - 1/6 Terter - 43/160 Ucar - 14/59 Sheki - 65/281 ---------------------- Total in country -2430/10304 As for entire Qarabag, there were registrated 47,384 IDP from there (all data of Oct. 1994), including: Xankendi city - 316 families/1497 people; Xocali region - 2430/10304; Xocavend region - 1950/9292; Shusha region - 6022/26291.
Azerbaijan: Seven Years of Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh (Human Rights Watch / Helsinki, Dec 1994), p.5:
"In February 1992, Karabakhi Armenian forces - reportedly backed
by soldiers from the 366th Motor Rifle Regiment of the Russian
Army - seized the Azeri-populated town of Khodjali, about seven
kilometers outside of Stepanakert. More than 200 civilians were
killed in the attack, the largest massacre to date in the
conlict". In the footer is a note: "There are not exact figures
for the number of Azeri civilians killed because Karabakh
Armenian forces gained control of the area after the massacre.
While it is widely accepted that 200 Azeris were murdered, as
many as 500-1,000 may have died."
Then, since Dec 1991 (meeting in Belovezhskaya puscha and end of USSR) all Soviet regiments, including 366th Motor Rifle Regiment, became Russian. Many officers and soldiers of it were Armenians, and had the direct relations with local Armenian population. Although the Russian government never officially considered a commitment of the regiment to the events, it was disbanded. Commanders and Armenians had resisted, and there was even attracted the Commandos from Tbilisi Headquarter of Russian Army, because of difficulty of this task (disbanding). Several armoured cars and other weapon were given to Armenians. Only men with light weapon were brought to Tbilisi by helicopters.