The history of mankind is full of tragic incidents of massacres and attempts of genocides under the barbaric rubric of ethnic, religious and nationalist causes. Numerous cases of wars within states and between states have caused an unbearable wave of brutality and violence around the globe. The human suffering mainly based on territorial clashes attached to incompatible national standings of governments portray a miserable picture of humanity which victimise innocent inhabitants. The history of every region has witnessed various inci-dents of mass killings because of armed conflicts. An updated and recent account of international history of bloodshed linked to armed conflict lies in the former Soviet region. Armenian and Azeri leaders from Caucasia maintained their positions over the land of Karabakh; one of the major unresolved territo-rial conflicts in recent history is the Nagorno-Karabakh issue between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Attempts by Armenia to annex the land of Nagorno-Karabakh is in violation of internationally recognized borders, this erupted in an unending wave of bloodshed in the Caucus region.
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