Shusha pogrom

Destroyed Armenian quarter of Shusha after the pogrom in March 1920. Ghazanchezoz Cathedral in the center of the picture .

Ruins in Shusha, March 1920

The pogrom of Shusha took place in the largest city at this time Nagorno-Karabakh in March 1920. It was directed against the Armenian residents whose share was in the total population of the city in 1916 53.3% and led to their extensive extinction. The massacre happened during the Armenian-Azerbaijani War, when Azerbaijani and Turkish army soldiers, supported by Kurdish groups, attacked the Armenian residents of Shusha and killed them between March 22 and 26, 1920. The Armenian quarters of the city of Shusha were completely destroyed.

The data on the number of fatalities vary widely and are between 500 and 20,000 or 30,000. The 1970 Soviet encyclopedia gives 2,096 deaths. Some of the Armenians were able to flee; hardly any surviving Armenians remained in the city.

See also

• Genocide against the Armenians
• Armenian pogrom in Baku in 1918

Web links

• United Nations document

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Directory of Minorities , p. 145 ( Minority Rights Group , Miranda Bruce-Mitford)
2. ↑ Kalli Raptis, Nagorno-Karabakh and the Eurasian Transport Corridor
3. ↑ Commission de Refugies, France ( PDF )
4. ↑ Thomas de Waal. Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War. ISBN 0-8147-1944-9 .
5. ^ Richard G. Hovannisian. The Republic of Armenia, Vol. III: From London to Sèvres, February – August 1920
6. ↑ Lords Hansard, text for July 1, 1997 (170701-19) [1]
7. ↑ Игорь Бабанов, Константин Воеводский: Карабахский кризис, Санкт-Петербург, 1992
8. ↑ Большая Советская Энциклопедия, третье издание (1978)
9. ↑ World Directory of Minorities , p. 145 ( Minority Rights Group , Miranda Bruce-Mitford)
10. ↑ Kalli Raptis, Nagorno-Karabakh and the Eurasian Transport Corridor
11. ↑ Commission de Refugies, France ( PDF )
12. ↑ Lords Hansard, text for July 1, 1997 (170701-19) [2]