It should be pointed out that Karabagh forces had opened a humanitarian corridor for civilians and let the Azeris know about it. An Azeri reporter is in jail for writing about this, is he not?

This is a big argument point for the Azeris. They have nothing else. We must be clear to the world in what happened there, and throughout Baku/Sumgait, the Artsakh War, and what has been happening in Turkey for the last 100+ years. Anything less is an admission to guilt. The turks say more when they know they are wrong.

To the previous commenter. Khojalu was a military operation against the aggressor, but in Sumgait and Baku Armenians who lived there for decades were massacred by mad crowds of nationalists. You should clearly make a distinction. And what you say is not quite clear.

Pity. The Azerbaijanis are doing the same as some Armenians are trying to do with the Baku pograms when both were instead terrible massacres. Incidentally, Sargsyan and Monte Melkonian's brother say that Khodjali did occur. When is this propaganda (including the media on both sides) going to end? --- The Armenian side refers to Ayaz Mutalibov's interview to claim that the massacre had been committed not by Armenian soldiers but by Azerbaijan Popular Front militants who allegedly shot their own civilians escaping through the corridor.[citation needed] In one of his interviews Mutalibov stated that the event could be a ploy by opposition to denigrate his government.[citation needed] In later interviews, however, Mutalibov would go on to condemn the Armenians for what he said was a blatant misinterpretation of his words.[13] Other theories proposed by the Armenian side were that Azeri Popular Front soldiers had massacred 100 Azeri and Armenian civilians and then proceeded to mix the bodies and lay blame upon the Armenians.[14] This explanation however is widely disputed, among others, the executive director of Human Rights Watch has stated that: “we place direct responsibility for the civilian deaths with Karabakh Armenian forces. Indeed, neither our report nor that of Memorial includes any evidence to support the argument that Azerbaijani forces obstructed the flight of, or fired on Azeri civilians”.[12] At the same time, some Armenian sources admitted the guilt of the Armenian side. According to Markar Melkonian, the brother of the Armenian military leader Monte Melkonian, "Khojaly had been a strategic goal, but it had also been an act of revenge." The date of the massacre in Khojaly had a special significance: it was the run-up to the fourth anniversary of the anti-Armenian pogrom in the city of Sumgait. Melkonian particularly mentions the role of the fighters of two Armenian military detachments called the Arabo and Aramo, who stabbed to death many Azeri civilians.[15] According to Serge Sarkisian, long-time Defense Minister and Chairman of Security Council of Armenia who is the current president of Armenia, “A lot was exaggerated” in the casualties, and the fleeing Azerbaijanis had put up armed resistance. At the same time he stated: “Before Khojali, the Azerbaijanis thought that they were joking with us, they thought that the Armenians were people who could not raise their hand against the civilian population. We were able to break that [stereotype]. And that's what happened. And we should also take into account that amongst those boys were people who had fled from Baku and Sumgait".[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khojaly_Massacre --- Then again, it's just one reason why I don't trust Armenian or Azerbaijani media sources for news on Karabakh. What is depressing, however, is that after criticizing Azeri and Turkish sources for denial and misinformation, the Armenian media does the same. Even in Karabakh they admit it happened, but justify it as a necessary military objective. Meanwhile, is it any wonder why peace remains elusive? And is anyone going to ask when journalists in Armenia and Azerbaijan cease from acting like combatants in an information war?