The New York Times wrote about truckloads of bodies and described acts of scalping.

He is an interesting man, a genuine intellectual driven by his inner demons both to flay those who pay insufficient credit to his transformational role in Australian politics and to expose what he regards as waffle and myths.

Doctors on a hospital train in Aghdam noted no less than four corpses that had been scalped and one that had been beheaded and one case of live scalping .