THEME NATIONAL HEROES Grade 8 A NAGHIYEV RUFAT

THEME: NATIONAL HEROES Grade: 8 A NAGHIYEV RUFAT TEACHER: SALAHAT ASADOVA

He was the man behind the video camera, who filmed scenes of atrocity in the Khojaly Massacre of 1992. In order to document the massacre, Mustafayev traveled via an army helicopter which at most time came under heavy enemy fire. He was able to film that gave evidence to the massacre which showed hundreds of dead bodies strewn across snow-covered fields of Khojaly. The film at times were coupled with commentaries by a sobbing and emotional Mustafayev as he described the carnage he had seen as he filmed. On 15 June 1992, Mustafayev while filming an exchange of fire between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces near the village of Nakhichevanik was felled by mortar fire. According to his brother Vahid Mustafayev, he was fatally wounded when a shell exploded right beside him and shrapnel from the shell severed one of his major arteries. By the time Mustafayev was airlifted to the hospital, he had died of blood loss. His last moments were captured on his own camera.

Mubariz Ibrahimov February 7, 1988, Əliabad, Bilasuvar Rayon, Azerbaijan - June 19, 2010, Çaylı, Tartar Rayon, Azerbaijan was an Azerbaijani Warrant Officer and National Hero of Azerbaijan. After completing his secondary education in 2005, Ibrahimov was drafted to Azerbaijani Armed Forces serving from 2006 through 2007. In September 2009, he entered the courses for warrants, after which he served in Naftalan. On June 19, Ibrahimov was killed in a shootout along the frontline between Azerbaijani and Armenian and Karabakh forces. Four Armenian soldiers also died in the shootout. The Azerbaijani government has attributed the deaths of the four Armenian soldiers to Ibrahimov, and have posthumously granted him the title of National Hero of Azerbaijan.