Armenia
Georgia’s Armenian and Azerbaijani activists at odds over commemorations of the Khojaly Massacre
Controversy surrounding commemorations for the 1992 Khojaly Massacre, which took place during the Nagorno-Karabakh War, has crept its way into Georgia. Despite a long record of peaceful coexistence between Georgia’s Armenian and Azerbaijani communities, a campaign calling for recognition of the tragedy as genocide has provoked indignation from activists. While thousands of Azerbaijanis commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Khojaly Massacre in Baku, Azerbaijan, a smaller-scale process