Kirovabad pogrom

Kirovabad pogrom
Part of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union
LocationKirovabad, Azerbaijan SSR
DateNovember 1988
TargetArmenian population of the city
Attack type
Pogrom
Deaths130 Armenians (per human rights activists), 7 (per Soviet authorities)
PerpetratorsAzerbaijanis

The Kirovabad pogrom[1] or the pogrom of Kirovabad[2][3] was an Azeri-led ethnic cleansing that targeted Armenians living in the city of Kirovabad (today called Ganja) in Soviet Azerbaijan during November 1988.[4][5][6] [7]

  1. ^ Stuart J. Kaufman, Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War, Cornell University Press, 2001, p. 77.
  2. ^ Touraj Atabaki, Sanjyot Mehendale, Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora, Routledge, 2005, p. 85.
  3. ^ Stephan H. Astourian, From Ter-Petrosian to Kocharian: Leadership Change in Armenia, Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2000, p. 22.
  4. ^ Ethnic Fears and Ethnic War in Karabagh Article - Scholar - SJ Kaufman
  5. ^ Armenia in Crisis: The 1988 Earthquake By Verluise
  6. ^ Imogen Gladman (2004). Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. Taylor & Francis Group. p. 131. ISBN 1-85743-316-5.
  7. ^ Kirovabad(Gandzak) 1988: A story of pogroms and self-defense