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| | 1993 Human Rights Report: AZERBAIJAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The attacking forces looted and burned all villages in the areas they overran, forcing some 500,000 people, as well as earlier displaced persons who had settled in areas subsequently overrun, to flee their homes. |
 | | According to reliable eyewitnesses, the entire population fled, and ethnic Armenians looted and destroyed all villages and towns to discourage the return of those displaced. |
 | | During the political upheaval inside Azerbaijan that these events caused, the Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians took advantage of the collapse of the Azerbaijani army to capture Agdam to the east in July and large parts of the Fuzuli, Cabrayil, Qubadli, and Zangilan regions to the south and southwest in September. |
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