` :::They just wanted to take people of Khojaly out to an open area, where they would be an easy target. If Armenians had tried to massacre people in the town, they would have suffered heavy losses, as street fights cause many casualties among the attackers. The Armenian president Serge Sarkissian admitted that the Armenians killed people of Khojaly to carry out scare tactics. He said: “Before Khojali, the Azerbaijanis thought that they were joking with us, they thought that the Armenians were people who could not raise their hand against the civilian population. We were able to break that [stereotype]. And that's what happened.`` He clearly admitted that the massacre was a deliberate act on part of Armenian forces.  `