Territory of Azerbaijan occupied in 1988-1994:

Nagorno-Karabakh (Shusha, Khankendi, Khojaly, Askeran, Khojavend, Agdere, Gadrut).
Years of occupation - 1988-1994, area - 4,400 sq. km.
Lachin (17 May, 1992) - 1,835 sq. km.
Kalbajar (3-4 April, 1993) - 1,936 sq. km.
Agdam (23 July, 1993) - 1,094 sq. km.
Jebrail (18 August, 1993) - 1,050 sq. km.
Fizuli (22 August, 1993) - 1,386 sq. km.
Gubadly (31 August, 1993) - 802 sq. km.
Zanghilan (30 October, 1993) - 707 sq. km.

Senior lecturer Adil Rajabov systematized terrible results of the Armenian aggression. The Armenian army ruined 870 settlements, 12 regions. Invaders destroyed 43,666 administrative objects, 1,145 preschool institutions and kindergartens, 1,831 cinema, 982 libraries, 862 centres and culture houses, 695 secondary schools, up 700 centres of public health services, 22 museums and 1 higher educational institution. 7 thousand objects of the industry and building, collective farms and state farms, trading buildings, 9 million sq. m of dwelling areas were occupied. The Armenian army destroyed monuments of history, culture, religion, material assets in the occupied regions. 44 temples, 32 mosques, 21 historical place for divine service, 13 towers, 22 barrows-hills, 8 bridges, 9 sarays, palaces, baths and complexes of caravans-sarays, 2 memorial springs, 4 gold mines, 2 granite and 4 stone career, 5 various deposits of building materials, 10 drama theatres were seized and destroyed in the occupied territories. 808 centres of culture, 85 musical schools, 4 art galleries, 6 recreation parks, 4 theatres, 2 concert buildings remained under the Armenian occupation. The considerable quantity of the inventory buildings evacuated from the occupied regions, Shushainsky state musical drama theatre, Fizuli state drama theatre, Agdam state drama theatre, remains in hands of conquerors. The unique Agdam museum of bread was completely destroyed, and 13,000 valuable exhibits were taken out from Kalbajar history and regional museum, 45,000 exhibits from Lachin history and regional museum were taken out to Armenia.

The damage inflicted on the territories of the Azerbaijan Republic that were liberated, suffered losses and were not occupied (mln. dollar).

Source: Report on Human Development in the Azerbaijan Republic. The UN, 1999

Also robbed: funds of Shusha history museum (500 exhibits), Shusha branch of the State museum of Azerbaijan carpet and national arts and crafts, building of the Museum of Azerbaijan music, Karabakh state history museum (1,000 exhibits), the museum of the remarkable composer Uzeyir Gajibekov (300 exhibits), the founder of vocal arts, great singer Bul-Bul (400 exhibits), the outstanding musician and artist Mir Movsun Navvab (100 exhibits), history regional museums of Agdam (2,000 exhibits), Gubadly (3,000 exhibits) and Zanghilan (6,000 exhibits).

Destroyed: the memorial museum of the famous Azerbaijan tarist Gurban Primov in Agdam, Raghib Mamedov museum of military glory and history regional museums in Jebrail, Fizuli. Monuments to outstanding culture figures were destroyed.

Regions	General harm	Dwellinghouses, education, healthcareandculture institutions	Industry, agriculture	Infrastructure	Mine clearing	Personal property
Gazakh	29,29	19,41	3,06	0,95	0,07	5,8
Agstafa	0,60	0,57	0,01	0,02	-	-
Tovuz	3,94	3,50	0,03	0,41	-	-
Ghedabey	3,95	2,11	0,02	0,02	-	1,8
Khanlar	30,95	10,93	15,34	3,28	-	1,4
Terter	117,12	57,66	36,75	3,81	-	18,9
Agdam	353.98	8,17	74,98	42,43	-	228,4
Agjabedi	17,78	2,4	14,21	1,17	-	-
Beylagan	12,40	1,27	10,55	0,58	-	-
Fizuli	241,44	46,89	85,25	22,0	5,2	82,1
Goranboy	98,47	47,03	28,78	5,26	-	17,4
Nakhchivan	12,35	4,87	3,94	2,96	-	0,58
Total	922,27	204,81	272,92	82,89	5,27	356,38

According to the research of N. Alekperova, in the territory of Lachin region Armenian terrorist and armed gangs destroyed palaces of Soltan Akhmed and Khamza Soltan, sacred places, caves - sites of ancient people, graves, burial hills, other historical monuments. Richest funds of history regional museums of Lachin where rarest examples of national culture were collected were taken out to Yerevan.

The picture will be incomplete if we do not mention general pillage on the part of Karabakh "fighters for independence".

Everyone was looting, from the future "president" of "NKR" to a teenager. Here are several Russian and Armenian sources.

"We are heading for the Azerbaijan regional centre Jebrail. Clubs of blue smoke over the town. The town is burning. It is also occupied by Nahorno-Karabakh army. Teenagers with wheelbarrows and baby carriages are rushing about the town. They break locks on the doors, take valuables and set houses on fire. Wheelbarrows and baby carriages are filled with different things. Looting is in full swing. A militia UAZ is standing on the crossroads wrapped in camouflage net. Marauders quietly roll their wheelbarrows and carriages past the bored militiamen.

"Why don't you stop the looting?"

"It isn't looting, it's contribution…" answers the militiaman calmly. "They've been robbing and deporting us for many years, now we are taking back ours…"

The picture of such general looting, in which children, old men, heads of families take part, make a very painful impression. All participants of the action realize perfectly well that the action is indecent and either react to photo and TV cameras painfully and aggressively or hide. No satisfaction from filming at all. And here is a picture: the road, which turns opening the view of the burning pillaged town, against the background of column of four or five trucks laden with household goods, doors and frames, a family is going, father, mother and four children.

The father is pushing a big wheelbarrow laden with some clothes. "Minsk" refrigerator lies on its side over the clothes. The mother follows rolling a baby carriage crammed with dishes and saucepans. One get the impression that dishes were collected after a picnic or dinner but had no time to wash them.

The mother is followed by a girl of 13 or 15, bending under two suitcases tied together with towels. Another such suitcase is hauled by a boy of about 12 years. He is obviously very tired and drags the heavy suitcase along the dusty road. Another girl of about ten years carries a huge bundle of curtains and tablecloths. I wonder how she can see the road.

The procession is closed by a little boy of four or fives years that is struggling two three meter long aluminium curtains. The curtains must have been tied together in the beginning of the way but then fell apart. The curtains now are trailing along the ground leaving a winding trace, now pull the boy forward and do not let him go, sticking in the ground."

Kocharyan is not only a terrorist but also robber and marauder.

Due to the well-known reason, the Union-popular city of Agdam was occupied by Kocharyan's armed gangs and was pillaged and burnt in several days. The research of Professor of Washington University Svante Cornell contain such lines, "The civilians of Agdam were forced to leave their houses, the city was pillaged and burnt." Clearly and definitely said!

This is also confirmed by Armenian sources. The leader of "Republic" party Aram Sarkisyan, the brother of the prime minister of Armenia Vazghex Sarkisyan, accused Robert Kocheryan in pillage and looting and added, "… after the pillage in Agdam Kocharyan believed that our country could be pullaged as well."

So, the USSR fell. Gorbachev disappeared in the political nothingness but the anti-Azerbaijan flag was caught up in the new democratic Russia by Yeltsin. The Armenian aggression became more insolent and open. Azerbaijan was yet to face its new tragic days.

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