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for many days were unaccounted for. A general phenomenon of these trage
dies—true also of the pogroms in Sumgait and Baku—also has to be taken into
account: lists of dead are compiled that include people who are missing and
later turn up alive, or who were seen lying motionless but were in fact wounded
rather than dead. In ascending order of magnitude, the following figures have
variously been given: Namig Aliev, one of the
parliamentary investigators, told
Helsinki Watch in April 1992 that 213 victims had been buried in Aghdam. An-
other Azerbaijani official, Aiden Rasulov, told the same team of researchers that
more than 300 bodies showing evidence of a violent death—and presumably not
including those who had died of cold—had been submitted for forensic exami
nation. (The two foregoing figures come from Human Rights Watch,
Bloodshed
in the Caucasus, 23.) The newspaper
Karabakh reported that the Commission for
Aid to Refugees from Khojaly had distributed benefits to 476
families of those
who had been killed (letter to the author from Arif Yunusov, April 2001.) The
imam in Aghdam showed Thomas Goltz an incomplete list of 477 reported dead
by their families (Goltz,
Azerbaijan Diary, 122–123). The Azerbaijani newspaper
Ordu (issues 9, 16, and 20, 1992) printed a list of 636 victims (Yunusov letter).
26. Reporting from Aghdam, Thomas Goltz had considerable problems
persuading editors to take his story seriously. The Mutalibov interview was on
2 April 1991
in the Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
27. Paul Quinn-Judge, “Armenians, Azerbaijanis tell of terror; Behind an
alleged massacre, a long trail of personal revenge,”
Boston Globe, 15 March 1992.
28.
Khodjaly, Khronika Genotsida [Khojali, a chronicle of genocide] (Baku
1992), 32.
29. Quinn-Judge, op. cit.
30. Interview with Avsharian, 18 May 2000.
31. The former Azerbaijani president Ayaz Mutalibov
says that he learned
that Gaziev had acquired Grads only when the bombardment of Stepanakert
began: “One day someone reports to me that this Rahim Gaziev is attacking
Stepanakert with Grads. I rang and said, ‘Have you gone mad?’ He says, ‘What
else can I do?’ I say, ‘What do you think, the Armenians won’t get Grads, do you
understand what you’re doing?’”
Interview with Mutalibov, 30 May 2000.
32. Interview with Kerimov, 13 November 2000.
33. Interview with Byrkin, 1 June 2000.
34. Bennett,
Crying Wolf, 65.
35. On Maraga, see Human Rights Watch,
Bloodshed in the Caucasus, 29;
Caroline Cox and John Eibner,
Ethnic Cleansing in Progress: War in Nagorno-
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