Baku pogrom

This article is about the pogrom in 1990. For the massacre in 1918, see September Days.

Baku pogrom
Part of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union
LocationBaku, Azerbaijani SSR, Soviet Union
DateJanuary 12–19, 1990
TargetLocal Armenian population
Deaths48 (Human Rights Watch)[1]
90 (Thomas de Waal)[2]
100+ (Aleksan Hakobyan)[3]
Injured700[4]

The Baku pogrom (Armenian: Բաքվի ջարդեր, Bakvi jarder) was a pogrom directed against the ethnic Armenian inhabitants of Baku, Azerbaijan SSR.[5][6][7] From January 12, 1990, a seven-day pogrom broke out against the Armenian civilian population in Baku during which Armenians were beaten, murdered, and expelled from the city. There were also many raids on apartments, robberies and arsons. According to the Human Rights Watch reporter Robert Kushen, "the action was not entirely (or perhaps not at all) spontaneous, as the attackers had lists of Armenians and their addresses".[8] The pogrom of Armenians in Baku was one of the acts of ethnic violence in the context of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, directed against the demands of the Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians to secede from Azerbaijan and unify with Armenia.

  1. ^ Human Rights Watch. "Playing the "Communal Card": Communal Violence and Human Rights".
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Քյարքիի «օպերացիան». Ալեքսան Հակոբյան". aniarc.am (in Armenian). October 14, 2023. Archived from the original on January 23, 2024. տալով 100-ից ավելի զոհ
  4. ^ Europa World Year: Book 1, p. 638, Taylor & Francis Group
  5. ^ Azerbaijan: The status of Armenians, Russians, Jews and other minorities, report, 1993, INS Resource Informacion Center, p. 10
  6. ^ "Azerbaijan". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
  7. ^ Azerbaijan: The status of Armenians, Russians, Jews and other minorities, report, 1993, INS Resource Informacion Center, p. 6
  8. ^ Conflict in the Soviet Union: Black January in Azerbaidzhan, Robert Kushen, 1991, Human Rights Watch, ISBN 1-56432-027-8, p. 7