Murder in the Mountains. War Crime in Khojaly and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict. By Raoul Lowery Contreras.

Murder in the Mountains. By Raoul Lowery Contreras. ISBN-13: 9781888205640  . $23.95 

On a bitterly cold February night of 1992, the Armenian government ordered its troops to destroy an innocent town of 6,000 people in the Caucasus Mountains. The town was Khojaly in Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region. Surrounded on three sides by Armenian troops and their allies, the town was destroyed in less than three hours by bombardment, tanks and hundreds of attackers on foot. Khojaly’s people were chased down and those not fast enough — women and children and the elderly — were massacred in what the Armenians claimed was a “humanitarian corridor.”