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List of massacres of Armenians

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This is the list of massacres of ethnic Armenians.

List

NameDateLocationPerpetratorsArmenian victims
Nakhchivan Massacre1225-1230Nakhchivan, AzerbaijanKhwarazmian Empire30,000-100,000
Armenian massacre by Amir Timur1389-1390Tataev, ArmeniaTimurid Empire Timurids20,000-100,000
Yerevan Massacre1747Armenia, Yerevan[[File:Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti.svg25px]] Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti,20,000-30,000
Hamidian massacres1894–1896Ottoman EmpireOttoman Empire Ottoman government under Sultan Abdul Hamid II88,243–300,000
Massacres of Diyarbekir (1895)1895Ottoman EmpireOttoman Empire Ottoman government under Sultan Abdul Hamid IIO'Mahony2006p=512}}
Armenian–Tatar massacres1905–1906Russian Empire Baku, Baku Governorate, Elizavetpol Governorate, Erivan Governorate, and Tiflis Governorate of the Russian EmpireAzerbaijani mobs and irregulars3,000 to 10,000 from both sides
Adana massacreApril 1909Ottoman Empire Adana Vilayet and Aleppo Vilayet of the Ottoman EmpireMuslim mobs19,479–25,000
Soltan Abad pogromMay 1910Qajar Iran Soltan Abad (modern Arak), Markazi province of the Qajar IranMuslim mobsArmenian priest and 12 Armenians«Русское Слово»/05.05.1910. Moscow. Pub:"Т-во И.Д.Сытина". Edit: Ю.М.Адеркас, М.А.Успенский, Ф.И.Благов,Н.А.Астапов.Армянский погром
Armenian genocide1915–1923Ottoman EmpireOttoman Empire Committee of Union and Progress government800,000–1,500,000
September DaysSeptember 1918Azerbaijan Baku, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
(under Ottoman control at the time)Ottoman Empire Army of Islam
Azerbaijani mobs10,000–30,000{{cite book
Muslim uprisings in Kars and Sharur–NakhichevanJuly 1919 – July 1920Armenia Ararat, Kars, Nakhichevan, Sharur, SurmaluAzerbaijan Azerbaijani-Turkish soldiers and locals10,000
Agulis Massacre24–25 December 1919Armenia Agulis, First Republic of ArmeniaAzerbaijan Azerbaijani-Turkish authorities and Azerbaijani mobs and refugees1,400
Khaibalikend massacreJune 1919Armenia Ghaibalishen, Krkjan Jamilli, and Pahlul villages of Karabakh CouncilAzerbaijan Azerbaijani Armylast=Wrightfirst=John F. R.title=Transcaucasian Boundariesyear=1996publisher=Psychology Presspage=99url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Cj9Xiu3OyUC&dq=Khaibalikend&pg=PA99isbn=9780203214473}}
Shusha massacreMarch 1920Azerbaijan Shusha, Azerbaijan Democratic RepublicAzerbaijan Azerbaijani Armytitle = The Nagorno-Karabagh Crisis: A Blueprint for Resolutionwork = Public International Law & Policy Group and the New England Center for International Law & Policydate=June 2000page = 3url = https://www.deutscharmenischegesellschaft.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/The-Nagorno-Karabagh-Crisis.pdfquote = In August 1919, the Karabagh National Council entered into a provisional treaty agreement with the Azerbaijani government. Despite signing the Agreement, the Azerbaijani government continuously violated the terms of the treaty. This culminated in March 1920 with the Azerbaijanis' massacre of Armenians in Karabagh's former capital, Shushi, in which it is estimated that more than 20,000 Armenians were killed.}}
Turkish–Armenian WarSeptember–December 1920Armenia First Republic of ArmeniaTurkey Turkish Nationalist forces1-57181-666-6}}.–198,000
Sumgait pogromFebruary 1988Soviet Union Sumgayit, Soviet AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Azerbaijani mobsurl=http://www.anca.org/press_releases/press_releases.php?prid=2414title=Senate and House Members Condemn Sumgait and Baku Massacresaccess-date=2 August 2015archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150516180553/http://www.anca.org/press_releases/press_releases.php?prid=2414archive-date=16 May 2015url-status=dead}}(nonofficial sources)
Kirovabad pogromNovember 1988Soviet Union Kirovabad, Soviet AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Azerbaijani mobslast1=Parksfirst1=Michaeltitle=Soviet Tells of Blocking Slaughter of Armenians : General Reports His Soldiers Have Suppressed Dozens of Massacre Attempts by Azerbaijanisurl=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-11-27-mn-1060-story.htmlaccess-date=20 January 2015agency=LA Timesdate=27 November 1988}}(nonofficial sources)
Baku pogromJanuary 1990Soviet Union Baku, Soviet AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Azerbaijani mobs90
[Dushanbe riots](1990-dushanbe-riots)12–14 February 1990Soviet Union Dushanbe, Soviet TajikistanTajik nationalist & Islamist activists26
Artashevan massacreMay 1991Artashevan, Nagorno-KarabakhAzerbaijan Azerbaijani Armed Forces300
Maraga massacre10 April 1992Maraga, Nagorno-KarabakhAzerbaijan Azerbaijani Armed Forces50–100

Notes

References

References

  1. Hovannisian, Richard G.. (1967). "Armenia on the road to independence, 1918". University of California Press.
  2. [[Taner Akçam. Akçam, Taner]] (2006) ''[[A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility]]'' p. 42, Metropolitan Books, New York {{ISBN. 978-0-8050-7932-6
  3. {{Harvnb. O'Mahony. 2006
  4. [[Tadeusz Swietochowski]]. ''Russia and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transition''. Columbia University Press, 1995. {{ISBN. 0-231-07068-3, {{ISBN. 978-0-231-07068-3
  5. Hovannisian, Richard G.. (1967). "Armenia on the road to independence, 1918". University of California Press.
  6. (2015). ""They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide". Princeton University Press.
  7. (2016). "The Armenian Genocide Legacy". Palgrave Macmillan UK.
  8. (2019). "The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924". Harvard University Press.
  9. Hovannisian, Richard G.. (1982). "The Republic of Armenia". University of California Press.
  10. Hovannisian, Richard G.. (1982). "The Republic of Armenia, Vol. II: From Versailles to London, 1919-1920". University of California Press.
  11. Wright, John F. R.. (1996). "Transcaucasian Boundaries". Psychology Press.
  12. Richard G. Hovannisian. The Republic of Armenia, Vol. III: From London to Sèvres, February–August 1920 p. 152
  13. (June 2000). "The Nagorno-Karabagh Crisis: A Blueprint for Resolution". [[Public International Law & Policy Group]] and the [[New England School of Law.
  14. 1-57181-666-6.
  15. Akçam, Taner. (2007). "A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility".
  16. "Senate and House Members Condemn Sumgait and Baku Massacres".
  17. Yuri Rost, "Armenian Tragedy", London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990, p. 82.
  18. (27 November 1988). "Soviet Tells of Blocking Slaughter of Armenians : General Reports His Soldiers Have Suppressed Dozens of Massacre Attempts by Azerbaijanis".
  19. de Waal, Thomas. (2003). "Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War". New York University Press.
  20. De Waal. ''Black Garden'', p. 176.
  21. Human Rights Watch/Helsinki. (1994). "Azerbaijan: Seven years of conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh". Human Rights Watch.
  22. Amnesty International. "[https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur55/008/1993/en/ Azerbaydzhan: Hostages in the Karabakh conflict: Civilians Continue to Pay the Price] ." Amnesty International. April 1993 (POL 10/01/93), p. 9.
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