BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have marched through the capital of Azerbaijan to commemorate the killing 20 years ago of hundreds of people during a war with Armenia over disputed territory.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev led Sunday’s march in Baku, which ended at a monument to the victims of the Khojaly massacre.
Azerbaijan says 613 residents of Khojaly were killed on Feb. 26, 1992, after fleeing the town as it fell to Armenian troops.
International rights groups are less certain about the death toll, but condemn the killings and consider them the worst massacre of the war that broke out between the two neighbors as the Soviet Union was falling apart.
Armenian troops now control Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave inside Azerbaijan.
