1. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) states that the Azerbaijani journalist Chingiz Mustafayev who recorded the bodies in Khojaly was killed very suspiciously while he was reportedly trying to gather information alleging that the Armenian attack on civilians in Khojaly was a provocation by the Azerbaijani National Front to force the resignation of Azerbaijani president Ayaz Mutalibov.
(Source: Chingiz Fuad-ogly Mustafayev)
2. The Armenians allowed the Azeri-Turk military to return to the area to collect their dead. This gave the Azeri-Turks the evidence of the civilian casualties which provided the basis for the allegations of cold-blooded, calculated Armenian ‘atrocities’. One of the few journalists to probe beneath the surface of what the Azerbaijani authorities presented to the media was T. Mazalova from Czechoslovakia. She had seen two videos of the same collection of Azeri-Turk bodies, one filmed on February 29 and the other on March 2. She observed that the heads had been scalped in the meantime. When she raised the question of this discrepancy with the first President of Azerbaijan, Ayaz Mutalibov in April 1992, he declared that the massacre in Khojaly was “organized” by his political opponents to force his resignation. He found it doubtful that the Armenians would have allowed the Azeri-Turks to collect the bodies had the allegations of a massacre been true.
(Source: Caroline Cox, John Eibner – Ethnic Cleansing in Progress: War in Nagorno Karabakh)
3. The Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev says, Azerbaijani fighters and not Armenians are responsible for the 1992 killings in Khojaly and added that the Azerbaijani government has long sought to use the Khojaly events to persecute its opponents, like the first president of Azerbaijan, Ayaz Mutalibov, who is still under criminal investigation for complicity in the Khojaly events. He also mentions Fahmin Hajiyev, the head of Azerbaijan’s interior troops of the country who spent 11 years in prison because of the Khojaly events.
(Source: Fatullayev: ‘I’m Still Here – Alive, Working, and Telling the Truth‘)
Justice for Khojaly 