Sources · book · neutral-academic
War and Peace in the Caucasus: Russia's Troubled Frontier
Vicken Cheterian, 2008 · Hurst & Co. / Columbia University Press
Notes
Standard academic monograph on the post-Soviet South Caucasus, integrating Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia. Cheterian's treatment of the Khojaly corridor as a deliberate political failure rather than a logistical breakdown is one of the principal Western-academic readings cited in this atlas; his analysis of the 1988-94 war's political economy underpins the broader First Karabakh War narrative.
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Event Khojaly massacre 3 cites - Academic consensus: fleeing civilians were deliberately killed at close range along a corridor that failed in execution; toll 161-485; 366th's role material but undocumented; characterisation: war crime / crime against humanity, not genocide.
- Cheterian (2008) frames the corridor failure as a deliberate political choice on the Armenian side rather than a logistical breakdown, citing the timing of the announcement, the unit positions, and the absence of internal-investigation evidence.
- Not contested in academic literature: deaths of fleeing civilians at close range, the existence of an announced corridor that failed in execution, Armenian responsibility (with 366th support) for the assault and killings, the rejection of "spontaneous close-quarters combat" framing. Still contested: the precise toll, chain of command for the corridor failure, the post-mortem mutilations, and the legal characterisation.