It was, as I described, perfectly in accordance with the laws of war. Furthermore, there's a special reason why it's not correct to classify it as a massacre:

It was, as I described, perfectly in accordance with the laws of war. Furthermore, there's a special reason why it's not correct to classify it as a massacre: namely, those who deviated from the advance on the Armenian outpost were not killed. Some apparently froze to death in the mountains, but those who were captured were returned to Azerbaijan unharmed.