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Azerbaijanis were exposed to massacres many times in twentieth century.

During March Days in 1918 12. 000 Azerbaijanis were massacred by Armenians.

According to the Memorial Human Rights Center, Human Rights Watch and other international observers, Azerbaijani citizens, including women and children, were massacred by ethnic Armenian armed forces, reportedly with help of the Russian 366th Motor Rifle Regiment during the Khojaly Massacre.

The Khojaly Massacre was described by Human Rights Watch as " the largest massacre to date in the conflict " over Nagorno-Karabakh.

Memorial, the Moscow-based human rights group, stated in their report that the mass killing of civilians in Khojaly could not be justified under any circumstances and that actions of Armenian militants were in gross violation of a number of basic international human rights conventions.