(Above, an Armenian boy mortally wounded by Azeri bombardment in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh in 1992. I know this photo is graphic, but this is the part of war that you DON’T see and that those who try to sell war don’t want to show you.)

Feb. 17, 1998:

Armenian troops kill 70 to 90 Azeri citizens in Qaradagli, Azerbaijan during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.

The conflict took place from 1988 to 1994 in southern Azerbaijan. It was fought between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians in Azerbaijan, who were backed by Armenia. There was a secessionist movement in the area, which voted in favour of uniting with Armenia in 1988, and Azerbaijan attempted to put it down. 

As the Soviets began pulling out of the region, the conflict grew into a war between the Armenians and Azeris, with both sides claiming each other were trying to ethnically cleanse each other from the area. 

All told, the war claimed the lives of nearly 4,600 Armenian troops, and 25,000 to 30,000 Azeri troops. About 85,000 people were wounded, and more than 1,200 Armenian civilians were killed. The exact number of Azeri civilians killed in the war is unknown.