My Brother's Road : An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia

With the support of the 366th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the former Soviet Army in the Azerbaijani city of Khojaly in Nagorno-Karabakh (the entire population of 5 thousand people), 613 people were killed, 63 of them children, 106 women, 70 old people; 487 people, including 76 children, were injured, 150 people went missing, 1275 people were taken hostage, and the fate of 150 hostages, including 68 women and 26 children, is still unknown.Author Markar Melkonian would later describe in his book how some residents of Khojaly had nearly reached safety after fleeing almost six miles but “[Armenian] soldiers chased them down”. The soldiers, he continues, “then unsheathed the knives they had carried on their hips for so long, and began stabbing” Markar Melkonian, My Brother’s Road: An American’s Fateful Journey to Armenia, N.Y.: I. B. Tauris, 2005, pp. 213–214