List of massacres in Azerbaijan

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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Azerbaijan (numbers may be approximate):

Name Year Date Location Deaths Victims Notes
Battle of Ganja (1804) 1804 February Ganja 3,000[1][2]-7,000[3] Azeri inhabitants of Ganja Civilians were massacred during the capture of the city by the Russians; some of the captured soldiers were executed[4]
Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1907 1905– 1907 February Baku; Nakhichevan; Shusha; Tiflis 3,000-10,000 Armenians, Azeris
Shamkhor Massacre 1918 January Şəmkir 1,000 Russians Russian soldiers killed by Azerbaijani nationalists[5][6][7]
March Days 1918 March 30-April 2 Azerbaijan 3,000-12,000 Azeris Other Muslims were killed as well.[9] Other Muslim ethnicities were killed as well.[9]
September Days 1918 September Baku 10,000-30,000 Armenians Armenians killed by the Army of Islam;[10][11] victims include small children, and many robberies and rapes took place during the massacre[12]
Khaibalikend Massacre 1919 June 5-7 Nagorno-Karabakh 600-700 Armenians Armenians killed by armed ethnic Azeri and Kurdish irregulars and Azerbaijani soldiers;[13] many women and children were killed, bodies were dumped into water wells, and the villages of Khaibalikend, Jamillu, Karkujahan and Pahliul were destroyed[14][15]
Shusha pogrom 1920 March 22–26 Shusha 20,000-30,000[16][17] Armenians Armenians killed by Azerbaijanis; many children were killed and many women were raped
Sumgait pogrom 1988 February 27-March 1 Sumgait 32 Armenians Armenians killed by Azeris; 20 ambulances were destroyed,[18] and reports detail widespread rape,[19] mutilation, robberies, and disembowling of fetuses[20]
Kirovabad pogrom 1988 November Kirovabad 130[21] Armenians Armenians killed by Azeris[22]
Baku Pogrom 1990 January 13 Baku 90 Armenians Armenians killed; many incidents of rape, robbery, and torture;[23] 700 injured[24]
Black January 1990 January 19–20 Baku, Azerbaijan 133-137 Azeris Azeris killed by Soviets; many women and children among the dead
Malibeyli and Gushchular Massacre 1992 February 10–12 Malibeyli, Ashaghi Gushchular, Yukhari Gushchular villages of Shusha Rayon 8-15 Azeris Azeris killed by Armenian irregular armed units[25]
Capture of Garadaghly 1992 February 17 Qaradağlı, Khojavend 20-90 Azeris Azeris killed[26]
Khojaly Massacre 1992 February 25—26 Xocalı, Azerbaijan 161-613 Azeris Azeris killed by Armenian Troops; many women and children among the dead
Maraga Massacre 1992 April 10 Maraga 40-100 Armenians Armenians killed, many decapitated; bodies were buried in a mass grave outside the village[27]

References

  1. ↑ Peter Avery; William Bayne Fisher, Gavin Hambly, Charles Melville (1991-10-25). The Cambridge history of Iran: From Nadir Shah to the Islamic Republic. Cambridge University Press. p. 332. ISBN 978-0-521-20095-0.
  2. ↑ John F. Baddeley, The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1908, p. 67, citing "Tsitsianoff's report to the Emperor: Akti, ix (supplement), p. 920".
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ THE SIEGE AND ASSAULT OF FORTRESS GANJA ,(Russian)
  5. ↑ The formation of the Soviet Union: communism and nationalism, 1917-1923 By Richard Pipes - page 103
  6. ↑ the Modern encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet history, Volume 39 by Joseph L. Wieczynski - page 170
  7. ↑ Wladimir S. Woytinsky: La Democratie. p. 113
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  10. ↑ Hovannisian. Armenia on the Road to Independence, p. 227.
  11. ↑ Human Rights Watch. Playing the "Communal Card": Communal Violence and Human Rights. New York: Human Rights Watch, 1995.
  12. ↑ Walker. Armenia, p. 261.
  13. ↑ Hovannisian, Richard. The Republic of Armenia: Vol. I, The First Year, 1918-1919. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971, pp. 176-177, notes 51-52.
  14. ↑ (Armenian) Vratsian, Simon. Հայաստանի Հանրապետութիւն (The Republic of Armenia). Paris: H.H.D. Amerikayi Publishing, 1928, pp. 286-87.
  15. ↑ Hovannisian. Republic of Armenia, Vol. I, p. 181.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ Why IDPs Matter in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict by Seepan V. Parseghian, p.5
  18. ↑ (Russian) "Сумгаит, Один месяц поздно" ("Sumgait, One Month Later"). Moskovskiye Novosti. April 13, 1988.
  19. ↑ Shahmuratian. Sumgait Tragedy, Interview with Levon Akopyan, p. 227.
  20. ↑ Lee, Gary. "Eerie Silence Hangs Over Soviet City." Washington Post. September 4, 1988. p. A33. Retrieved August 24, 2012.
  21. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  22. ↑ Stuart J. Kaufman, Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War, Cornell University Press, 2001, p. 77.
  23. ↑ Committee on the elimination of discrimination against women
  24. ↑ Europa World Year: Book 1 - Page 638, Taylor & Francis Group
  25. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  26. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  27. ↑ Cox, Caroline and John Eibner. Ethnic Cleansing in Progress: War in Nagorno Karabakh. Zurich and Washington D.C.: Institute for Religious Minorities in the Islamic World, p. 58, 1993.
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