List of massacres of Azerbaijanis

The following is a list of massacres of Azerbaijanis that have occurred throughout history.

Name	Date	Location	Perpetrators	Victims (highest estimation)
Battle of Ganja (1804)	February 1804	Ganja	Imperial Russian Army	3,000[1][2]-7,000[3]
Armenian–Tatar (Azerbaijani) massacres	1905–1907	Baku, Ganja, Nakhchivan, Shusha, and Tbilisi	Armenians and Azerbaijanis	3,000 to 10,000 from both sides[4]
March Days	March 1918	Baku	Baku Commune	3,000–12,000
Quba massacre	May 1918	Quba	Baku Commune Dashnaktsutyun Party	unknown
Massacres in Zangezur	1918	Zangezur	Armenian paramilitary forces of Andranik	10,000 in the autumn of 1918[5] and several thousands in the end of 1918[6]
1920 Ganja Revolt	June 1920	Ganja	Red Army	15,000[7][8]
Gugark pogrom	March-November 1988	Armenian SSR	Armenian SSR	215
Stepanakert pogrom	September 1988	Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Azerbaijani SSR	Armenian mobs Armenian nationalist emissaries	2
Black January	January 1990	Baku	Transcaucasian Military District	133–137
Baghanis Ayrum massacre	March 1990	Baghanis Ayrum	Armenian Armed Forces	11
Malibeyli and Gushchular massacre	February 1992	Malibeyli, Ashagy Kushchular, Yukhary Kushchular villages of Shusha District	Armenian irregular units	15–50[9]
Capture of Garadaghly	February 1992	Garadaghly	Armenian irregular units Russian 366th regiment	20–90[10]
Khojaly massacre	February 1992	Khojaly	Armenian irregular units Russian 366th regiment	200–613
Agdaban massacre	April 1992	Agdaban	Armenian Armed Forces	30+[11]
Capture of Shusha	May 1992	Shusha	Armenian Armed Forces	193 (Azerbaijani claim)[12]
Ballıqaya massacre	August 1992	Balligaya	Armenian irregular units	24
Bashlibel massacre	April-August 1993	Bashlibel	Armenian Armed Forces	27
Bombardment of Tartar	September –November 2020	Tartar District	Armenian Armed Forces Artsakh Defense Army	17
Ganja ballistic missile attacks	October 2020	Ganja	Armenian Armed Forces	26[13]
Barda ballistic missile attacks	October 2020	Barda	Armenian Armed Forces	26[14][15]

See also

• Anti-Azerbaijani sentiment

References

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