Khaibalikend massacre

Khaibalikend massacre
LocationNagorno-Karabakh
DateJune 5–7, 1919
TargetArmenian civilians
Attack type
Massacre, pogrom
Deaths600–700[1]

The Khaibalikend massacre was the mass killing of Armenian civilians in the villages of Ghaibalishen (Khaibalikend), Jamilli, and Karkijahan and Pahlul in Nagorno-Karabakh, from June 5 to 7, 1919. The villages were destroyed, and from 600 to 700 ethnic Armenians, including women and children, were murdered by armed ethnic Azeri and Kurdish irregulars and Azerbaijani soldiers.[2][3] The massacre was organized by Nagorno-Karabakh's Governor-General Khosrov bek Sultanov and led by his brother, Sultan bek Sultanov.[4][5][6]

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  3. ^ (in Armenian) Vratsian, Simon. Հայաստանի Հանրապետութիւն (The Republic of Armenia). Paris: H.H.D. Amerikayi Publishing, 1928, pp. 286–87.
  4. ^ De Waal, Thomas (2003). Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War. New York: New York University Press, p. 128. ISBN 978-0-8147-1945-9.
  5. ^ Hovannisian. Republic of Armenia, Vol. I, p. 177.
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