[2] 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.

[2] 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.

344 dated December 4, 1992, Fakhraddin Shahbazov was posthumously awarded the title of "National Hero of Azerbaijan".