The forceful expulsion of Azerbaijanis from Upper Karabakh and nowadays Armenia by Armenians since 1988 also worried Fakhraddin Shahbazov . He volunteered for the front-line , prepared reports from battlefields and broadcast them in the country and abroad . Despite repeated encounters with dangerous situations , he continued to go to the front-line as a reporter . In 1991 , the Armenians committed unimaginable atrocities in the Khojavend District . Civilians were killed , villages were burned . On November 20 , government officials and a number of other individuals departed for Khojavend on a Mi-8 helicopter to investigate these events . Near the village of Garakend in Khojavend , Armenians attacked the helicopter with heavy machine-gun fire . The Armenians did not even hesitate to insult their dead bodies
a Mi-8 helicopter
1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown
Fakhraddin Shahbazov