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    Azerbaijan Resumes Probe Into Xocali Killings

    RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic
    Aug 3 2005

    (RFE/RL)

    3 August 2005 -- The office of Azerbaijan's military prosecutor
    says it has reopened a criminal investigation into the killing of
    dozens of ethnic Azerbaijani civilians by Armenian forces during the
    Nagorno-Karabakh war.

    The investigation had been suspended since March 1994.

    A statement released today by Azerbaijan's military prosecutor says
    nearly 350 residents of Xocali, a predominantly Azerbaijani town of
    Karabakh, were killed in February 1992 soon after the poorly defended
    area fell into Armenian hands.

    Earlier official figures released in Baku had put the number of
    civilians killed in Xocali at nearly 500.

    The Azerbaijani military prosecutor's office also says it has opened
    a criminal investigation into the February 1992 killing of nearly
    50 residents of Qaradagli, an ethnic Azerbaijani village of the
    predominantly ethnic Armenian separatist enclave.
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