On May 9 is a real holiday and great event, as 16 years ago Shushi was liberated!
Since November, 1991 the Azeri armed units, situated in Shushi, used their superiority of the town’s geographical situation and subjected NKR’s capital Stepanakert and the adjoining Armenian villages to systematic artillery and rocket shelling. As a result of the shelling, hundreds of Stepanakert citizens were killed and wounded, the industrial enterprises and administrative buildings, as well as the town’s infrastructure were destroyed, 19.000 people were left homeless. Proceeding from the existing situation, on May 8 the Armenian forces of self-defense began an operation on annihilating the fire points and military bases, situated in Shushi and its suburbs. After great torments and suffers, on May 9, 1992 Shushi had been liberated. Thanks to its natural conditions, the plateau had the following strategically significant features in the past: it was surrounded by forbidding rocks from the three sides, and from the north side - by a smooth slope leading to the valleys.
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