List of massacres of Armenians

This is the list of massacres of ethnic Armenians.

Name Date Location Perpetrators Armenian Victims
Hamidian massacres 1894–1896  Ottoman Empire Ottoman government under Sultan Abdul Hamid II 88,243–300,000[1]
Armenian–Tatar massacres 1905–1907 Baku, Elisabethpol, Nakhichevan, Shusha Caucasian Muslim and Armenian civilians, militants 500
Adana massacre April 1909 city of Adana, Adana Vilayet Young Turk government 30,000
Armenian Genocide 1915–1923  Ottoman Empire Young Turk government 1,500,000
September Days September 1918 Baku, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
(under Turkish control at the time)		 Army of Islam 30,000[2]
Khaibalikend massacre June 1919 Nagorno-Karabakh

(disputed; under control of Azerbaijan at the time)

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

(disputed; under control of Azerbaijan at the time)

 Azeri army 500
Turkish–Armenian War September–December 1920 Democratic Republic of Armenia Turkish Armed Forces 60,000 to 98,000 Armenian civilians[4]
Sumgait pogrom February 1988 Sumgayit, Soviet Azerbaijan Azerbaijani mobs 26 (official) to 30 [5](nonofficial sources)
Kirovabad pogrom November 1988 Kirovabad, Soviet Azerbaijan Azerbaijani mobs 10–12 (official)[6] to 130[7](nonofficial sources)
Baku pogrom January 1990 Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan Azerbaijani mobs 90[8]
Dushanbe riots February 12–14, 1990 Dushanbe, Soviet Tajikistan Tajik nationalist & Islamist activists 26
Shelling of Stepanakert November 1991-May 1992 Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh
(disputed)		 Azerbaijani Armed Forces 169
Maraga massacre 10 April 1992 Maraga, Nagorno-Karabakh
(disputed; under control of Azerbaijan at the time)		 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. ISBN 9780203214473.
  4. The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus. New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 360–361. ISBN 1-57181-666-6.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 May 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. Yuri Rost, "Armenian Tragedy", London: Weidenfeld & 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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