List of massacres of Armenians

This is the list of massacres of Armenians.

Name Date Location Perpetrators Armenian Victims
Hamidian massacres 1894–1896  Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire Ottoman government under Sultan Abdul Hamid II 200,000–300,000[1]
Armenian–Tatar massacres 1905–1907 Russian Empire Baku, Elisabethpol, Nakhichevan, Shusha Caucasian Muslim and Armenian civilians, miltiants 3,000-10,000 from both sides
Adana massacre April 1909 Ottoman Empire city of Adana, Adana Vilayet Ottoman Empire Young Turk government 30,000
Armenian Genocide 1915–1923  Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire Young Turk government 1,500,000
September Days September 1918 Azerbaijan Baku, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
(under Turkish control at the time)		 Ottoman Empire Army of Islam 30,000[2]
Khaibalikend massacre June 1919 Nagorno-Karabakh

(disputed; under control of Azerbaijan at the time)

 Azerbaijan Azeri army 700[3]
Shusha massacre March 1920 Shusha, Nagorno-Karabakh

(disputed; under control of Azerbaijan at the time)

 Azerbaijan Azeri army 20,000–30,000 [4]
Sumgait pogrom February 1988 Soviet Union Sumgayit, Soviet Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Azerbaijani mobs 26 (official) to 30 [5](nonofficial sources)
Kirovabad pogrom November 1988 Soviet Union Kirovabad, Soviet Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Azerbaijani mobs 10–12 (official)[6] to 130[7](nonofficial sources)
Baku pogrom January 1990 Soviet Union Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Azerbaijani mobs 90[8]
Dushanbe riots February 12–14, 1990 Soviet Union Dushanbe, Soviet Tajikistan Tajik nationalist & islamist activists 26
Maraga massacre 10 April 1992 Maraga, Nagorno-Karabakh
(disputed; under control of Azerbaijan at the time)		 Azerbaijan Azerbaijani Armed Forces 50-100 [9][10][11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ Hovannisian, Richard G. (1967). Armenia on the Road to Independence, 1918. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 227, 312, note 36. ISBN 0-520-00574-0.
  3. ↑ Wright, John F. R. (1996). Transcaucasian Boundaries. Psychology Press. p. 99.
  4. ↑ Giovanni Guaita (2001). "Armenia between the Bolshevik hammer and Kemalist anvil". 1700 Years of Faithfulness: History of Armenia and its Churches. Moscow: FAM. ISBN 5-89831-013-4.
  5. ↑ http://www.anca.org/press_releases/press_releases.php?prid=2414. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ Yuri Rost, "Armenian Tragedy", London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1990, p. 82.
  7. ↑ Parks, Michael (27 November 1988). "Soviet Tells of Blocking Slaughter of Armenians : General Reports His Soldiers Have Suppressed Dozens of Massacre Attempts by Azerbaijanis". LA Times. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  8. ↑ de Waal, Thomas (2003). Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War. New York: New York University Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-8147-1945-9. Around ninety Armenians died in the Baku pogroms.
  9. ↑ De Waal. Black Garden, p. 176.
  10. ↑ Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (1994). Azerbaijan: Seven years of conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. New York: Human Rights Watch. p. 6. ISBN 1-56432-142-8.
  11. ↑ Amnesty International. "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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