List of massacres in Azerbaijan

The following lists are of massacres that have occurred within the current boundaries of Azerbaijan (numbers may be approximate).

Before 1988

Name Year Date Location Deaths Targeted group Notes
Sack of Shamakhi 1721 18 August Shamakhi 4,000–5,000[1][2] Shia inhabitants of Shamakhi Shia inhabitants of the city (includes the city's officials) were killed by rebellious Sunni Lezgin tribesmen.[1][2]
Battle of Ganja (1804) 1804 February Ganja 1,500–3,000[3] Inhabitants of Ganja Civilians were massacred during the capture of the city by the Russians; some of the captured soldiers were executed[4]
Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1907 1905–1907 February Baku; Nakhchivan; Shusha; Tiflis 3,000–10,000 Armenians, Azerbaijanis
Shamkhor Massacre 1918 January Şəmkir 1,000 armed Russian soldiers Russian soldiers killed by Azerbaijani nationalists[5][6][7]
March Days 1918 March 30 – April 2 Azerbaijan 12,000–25,000 Azerbaijanis According to the statements of Azerbaijan representatives, "the Bolsheviks".[9]
September Days 1918 September Baku 10,000–15,000 Armenians Armenians killed by the Army of Islam[10][11]
Khaibalikend Massacre 1919 June 5–7 Nagorno-Karabakh 600–700 Armenians Armenians killed by armed ethnic Azerbaijani and Kurdish irregulars and Azerbaijani soldiers;[12] Villages of Khaibalikend, Jamillu, Karkujahan and Pahliul were destroyed[13][14]
Muslim uprisings in Kars and Sharur–Nakhichevan 1919–1920 July–December Nakhchivan 10,000[15] Armenians
Agulis Massacre 1919 December 24–25 Yuxarı Əylis 1,400[16][17] Armenians Early-20th-century anti-Armenian massacre of the Armenian population of Agulis by the Turkish army accompanied by the Azerbaijani refugees from Zangezur which resulted in the destruction of the town of Agulis.[18][19]
Shusha pogrom 1920 March 22–26 Shusha 500–20,000[20][21] Armenians Armenians killed by Azerbaijanis
1920 Ganja Revolt 1920 June Ganja 15,000 Azerbaijanis Bolsheviks slaughtered civilians including women and children after the capture of rebel Ganja. Many women were raped and Koran were burnt.[22][23]

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

The following is a list of massacres and pogroms, which took place in the course of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.

Name Year Date Location Deaths Targeted group Notes
Sumgait pogrom 1988 February 27 – March 1 Sumgait 32 (26 Armenians and 6 Azerbaijanis)[24] Armenians Armenians killed by Azerbaijanis; 20 ambulances were destroyed,[25] and reports detail widespread rape,[26] mutilation, robberies and disemboweling of fetuses[27][28]
Kirovabad pogrom 1988 November Kirovabad 130 Armenians Armenians Azeri-led pogrom directed against Armenian inhabitants of Kirovabad (now Ganja)
Baku Pogrom 1990 January 13 Baku 90 Armenians Armenians killed by Azerbaijanis; many incidents of rape, robbery and torture;[29] 700 injured.[30][31]
Black January 1990 January 19–20 Baku, Azerbaijan 133–137 Peaceful protesters of the Azerbaijani national independence movement Killed by Soviet troops; ambulance workers rushing to help the wounded and random passers-by, including women and children, among the dead
Operation Ring 1991 April 30 – May 15 Shahumyan Province unknown Armenians number of casualties unknown, approximately 17,000 people displaced, gross human rights violations[32]
Capture of Gushchular and Malibeyli 1992 February 10–12 Malibeyli, Ashaghi Gushchular, Yukhari Gushchular villages of Shusha District 8 (per Helsinki Watch)[33]
15–50 (per Azerbaijan)[34] 		Azerbaijanis Azerbaijanis killed by Armenian irregular armed units[33]
Khojaly Massacre 1992 February 25–26 Khojaly, Azerbaijan More than 200[35][36] (per Human Rights Watch)

613[37] (per Azerbaijan)

Azerbaijanis Azerbaijanis killed by Armenian troops.
Maraga Massacre 1992 April 10 Maraga 40–100 Armenians Armenians killed (many decapitated); corpses buried in a mass grave outside the village.[38]

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