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18 years passed since death of Azerbaijani famous broadcaster - Chingiz Mustafayev

15 June 2010 07:43 (UTC +04:00)

Chingiz Mustafayev was killed on June 15 in 1992 in Nakhchivanik village of Asgeran region while performing his professional duty.
Chingiz Mustafayev Fuad was born in 1960 on august 29. His father was a military man involved with missiles and rockets.
Starting his activity as a reporter as soon as Armenian forces pursued occupation against Qarabaq territory of Azerbaijan he had worked as reporter for one year. But within the short period of time we heard Chingizâ€™s voice from leading TV channels of the world as well as from Russia.
He was the man behind the TV camera, who filmed the scene of Khojaly Massacre in 1992. To make the footage Chingiz had to travel on an army helicopter, and despite coming under fire he managed to film the evidence of the Khojaly Massacre showing hundreds of dead bodies strewn across snow-covered fields. The pictures are accompanied by the sound of Chingizâ€™ â€“ no stranger to the sight of corpses â€“ sobbing uncontrollably as he filmed.
Azerbaijan’s official media had covered up the fact that the town had been wiped out and women, children and the elderly had been slaughtered. But his film was the irrefutable evidence that there had had been a full-scale massacre, with the perpetration of which Human Rights Watch and Russian Memorial society blamed the Armenian forces.
In the course of eight months, Chingiz shot 18 documentaries about the war in Karabakh, leaving behind a substantial historical archive. Chingiz was known for his patriotic work and was considered to have risked everything to expose the truth.

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