List of massacres of Azerbaijanis

The following is a list of massacres of Azerbaijanis that have occurred throughout history.

Name Date Location Perpetrators Victims (highest estimation)
Battle of Ganja (1804) February 1804 Ganja Imperial Russian Army 3,000[1][2]-7,000[3]
Armenian–Tatar (Azeri) Massacres 1905–1907 Baku, Ganja, Nakhchivan, Shusha, and Tbilisi Armenians and Azerbaijanis 3,000 to 10,000 from both sides[4]
March Days March 1918 Baku Baku Commune 3,000–12,000
Black January January 1990 Baku Transcaucasian Military District 133–137
Malibeyli and Gushchular Massacre February 1992 Malibeyli, Ashaghi Gushchular, Yukhari Gushchular villages of Shusha Rayon Armenian irregular units 15–50[5]
Capture of Garadaghly February 1992 Qaradağlı Armenian irregular units 20–90[6]
Khojaly Massacre February 1992 Khojaly Armenian irregular units and Russian 366th regiment 161–613
  • Anti-Azerbaijani sentiment

References

  1. ↑ Peter Avery; William Bayne Fisher, Gavin Hambly, Charles Melville (25 October 1991). 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. ↑ Mansoori, Firooz (2008). "17". Studies in History,Language and Culture of Azerbaijan (in Persian). Tehran: Hazar-e Kerman. p. 245. ISBN 978-600-90271-1-8.
  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. ↑ Denber, Rachel; Goldman, Robert K. (1992). Bloodshed in the Caucasus: escalation of the armed conflict in Nagorno Karabakh. Praeger Publishers. pp. 24–27. ISBN 0-275-96241-5. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
  6. ↑ "Letter dated 20 May 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General" (PDF). Retrieved 24 August 2012.
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