Azerbaijan: Baku Presses Campaign for Khojaly Recognition

 The government of Azerbaijan, backed by activists abroad, is engaging in a campaign to gain international recognition of the 1992 massacre of over 400 Azeri civilians by Armenian forces in the village of Khojaly during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. While the promoters of Khojaly recognition say their goal is to honor the victims of the massacre, there is also a clear foreign policy element to the campaign.On the night of February 25-26, 1992, h...