The Khojaly Massacre was the killing of hundreds of ethnic Azerbaijani civilians from the town of Khojaly on 25–26 February 1992 by the Armenian. The event became the largest massacre in the course of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Western governments and the western media refer to it as the Khojaly Massacre or Khojaly Tragedy.According to Memorial, part of the population started to leave Khojaly soon after the assault began, trying to flee in the direction of Agdam, and there were armed people from the town's garrison among some of the fleeing groups.



