Career
Mustafayev, with no formal background or degree in journalism save for a year of on the job training, created a video anthology during the early stages of the Nagorno-Karabakh War, most of the documentary had to be shot from the frontline which ultimately was the cause of his abrupt death due to mortar wounds. 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. Azerbaijani"s official press tried to cover up the fact that the town had been wiped out by Armenian forces.
Human Rights Watch and the Russian Memorial society attributed the carnage to Armenian forces. By the time Mustafayev was airlifted to the hospital, he had died of blood loss.
His last moments were captured on his own camera.
ANS Master in Surgery 102 FM the first Radio Broadcasting Company in the Caucasus whose motto was "We are fated to struggle" has renamed the station in his honor. Azerbaijani radio station ANS Master in Surgery 102 FM also renamed after him and carries his slogan Döyüş alnımıza yazılıb (The war is written on our foreheads). The Mustafayev family is described as the typical Azerbaijani family.
His father was in the military and was working on missiles and rockets in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. His mother hailed from the city of Shaki.
Married when she was 19, Chingiz was the oldest child, born in 1960 and he had two brothers, Seyfulla Mustafayev, born in 1962, and Vahid Mustafayev, born in 1968. Mustafayev also produced Azerbaijan’s first Hip Hop record in 1983.