Armenia news - Oratert.com: Liberation of Shushi: 20 years later

Liberation of Shushi: 20 years later
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Oratert News on 09/05/2012 14:20:00

The Liberation of Shushi was the first significant military victory by Armenian
forces during the Nagorno – Karabakh War.

The battle took place in the strategically  important mountain town of Shushi on
the evening of May 8, 1992, and  fighting swiftly concluded the following day
after Armenian forces  captured and drove out the defending  Azeris. Armenian
military  commanders based in Nagorno-Karabakh's capital of Stepanakert had been
 contemplating the liberation of the town after a hail of Azeri military 
bombardment had begun shelling the city.