List of massacres of Armenians explained

This is the list of massacres of ethnic Armenians.

List

NameDate LocationPerpetratorsArmenian victims
Armenian massacre by Amir Timur1389-1390Tataev, Armenia Timurids20,000-100,000
Hamidian massacres1894–1896 Ottoman government under Sultan Abdul Hamid II88,243[1] –300,000[2]
Armenian–Tatar massacres1905–1907 Baku, Baku Governorate, Elizavetpol Governorate, Erivan Governorate, and Tiflis Governorate of the Russian EmpireAzerbaijani mobs and irregulars 500
Adana massacreApril 1909Muslim mobs19,479[3] –25,000[4]
Armenian genocide1915–1923 Committee of Union and Progress government800,000–1,500,000[5] [6]
September DaysSeptember 1918 Baku, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
(under Ottoman control at the time)
Army of Islam
Azerbaijani mobs
10,000–30,000[7]
Muslim uprisings in Kars and Sharur–NakhichevanJuly 1919 – July 1920 Ararat, Kars, Nakhichevan, Sharur, Surmalu Azerbaijani-Turkish soldiers and locals10,000[8]
Agulis MassacreDecember 24–25, 1919 Agulis, First Republic of Armenia Azerbaijani-Turkish authorities and Azerbaijani mobs and refugees1,400[9]
Khaibalikend massacreJune 1919 Ghaibalishen, Krkjan Jamilli, and Pahlul villages of Karabakh Council Azerbaijani Army700[10]
Shusha massacreMarch 1920 Shusha, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Azerbaijani Army500[11] –20,000[12]
September–December 1920 First Republic of Armenia Turkish Nationalist forces60,000[13] –198,000[14]
Sumgait pogromFebruary 1988 Sumgayit, Soviet Azerbaijan Azerbaijani mobs26 (official) to 200[15] (nonofficial sources)
Kirovabad pogromNovember 1988 Kirovabad, Soviet Azerbaijan Azerbaijani mobs10–12 (official)[16] to 130[17] (nonofficial sources)
Baku pogromJanuary 1990 Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan Azerbaijani mobs90[18]
Dushanbe riotsFebruary 12–14, 1990 Dushanbe, Soviet TajikistanTajik nationalist & Islamist activists26
Artashevan massacreMay 1991Artashevan, Nagorno-Karabakh Azerbaijani Armed Forces300
Maraga massacre10 April 1992Maraga, Nagorno-Karabakh Azerbaijani Armed Forces50–100[19] [20] [21]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Hovannisian, Richard G.. Armenia on the road to independence, 1918. 1967. University of California Press. 0-520-00574-0. Berkeley. 267. 825110.
  2. [Taner Akçam|Akçam, Taner]
  3. Book: Hovannisian, Richard G.. Armenia on the road to independence, 1918. 1967. University of California Press. 0-520-00574-0. Berkeley. 268. 825110. In the report of Hakob Papikian, member of Parliament and the Inquiry, the number of victims given is 21,000, of whom 19,479 were Armenian, 850 Syrian, 422 Chaldean, and 250 Greek..
  4. Book: Suny. Ronald Grigor. "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide. 2015. Princeton University Press. 978-1-4008-6558-1. 171. Ronald Grigor Suny.
  5. Book: Bijak . Jakub . Lubman . Sarah . The Armenian Genocide Legacy . 2016 . Palgrave Macmillan UK . 978-1-137-56163-3 . 26–43 . en . The Disputed Numbers: In Search of the Demographic Basis for Studies of Armenian Population Losses, 1915–1923.
  6. Book: Morris . Benny. Benny Morris . Ze’evi . Dror . The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924. The Thirty-Year Genocide . 2019 . Harvard University Press . 978-0-674-91645-6 . 486.
  7. Book: Hovannisian, Richard G.. Richard G. Hovannisian. Armenia on the Road to Independence, 1918. registration. University of California Press. Berkeley. 1967. 227, 312, note 36. 0-520-00574-0.
  8. Book: Hovannisian, Richard G. . The Republic of Armenia . University of California Press . 1982 . 0-520-04186-0 . 2 . Berkeley . 107.
  9. Book: Hovannisian, Richard G.. Richard G. Hovannisian. The Republic of Armenia, Vol. II: From Versailles to London, 1919-1920. University of California Press. 1982. The Doom of Akulis. Berkeley. 0-520-04186-0. https://archive.org/details/republicofarmeni0000hova/page/234. 207–238.
  10. Book: Wright, John F. R.. Transcaucasian Boundaries. 1996. Psychology Press. 99. 9780203214473.
  11. Richard G. Hovannisian. The Republic of Armenia, Vol. III: From London to Sèvres, February–August 1920 p. 152
  12. Web site: The Nagorno-Karabagh Crisis: A Blueprint for Resolution . Public International Law & Policy Group and the New England Center for International Law & Policy . June 2000 . 3 . 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..
  13. The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus. New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 360–361. .
  14. Book: Akçam, Taner. Taner Akçam. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility. 2007. 327. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility. - Profile at Google Books
  15. Web site: Senate and House Members Condemn Sumgait and Baku Massacres. 2 August 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150516180553/http://www.anca.org/press_releases/press_releases.php?prid=2414. 16 May 2015. dead.
  16. Yuri Rost, "Armenian Tragedy", London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990, p. 82.
  17. News: Parks. Michael. Soviet Tells of Blocking Slaughter of Armenians : General Reports His Soldiers Have Suppressed Dozens of Massacre Attempts by Azerbaijanis. 20 January 2015. LA Times. 27 November 1988.
  18. Book: de Waal, Thomas. Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War. 2003. New York University Press. New York. 978-0-8147-1945-9. Thomas de Waal. 90. Around ninety Armenians died in the Baku pogroms.. Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War.
  19. De Waal. Black Garden, p. 176.
  20. Book: Human Rights Watch/Helsinki. Azerbaijan: Seven years of conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. 1994. Human Rights Watch. New York. 1-56432-142-8. 6 .
  21. Amnesty International. "Azerbaydzhan: Hostages in the Karabakh conflict: Civilians Continue to Pay the Price ." Amnesty International. April 1993 (POL 10/01/93), p. 9.