1988 violence in Shusha and Stepanakert information
Expulsion of Armenians from Shusha and Azerbaijanis from Stepanakert
1988 violence in Shusha and Stepanakert
Part of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Map of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
Location
Shusha and Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Date
September 18–20, 1988 (2 days)
Target
Armenian population of Shusha and Azerbaijani population of Stepanakert
Attack type
Expulsion
Deaths
1
Injured
49
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t
e
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
Civilian clashes and massacres
Askeran
Sumgait
Gugark
Stepanakert−Shusha
Kirovabad
Baku
Black January
Baganis Ayrum
Gushchular−Malibeyli
Garadaghly
Khojaly
Maraga
Offensives
Ring
Stepanakert
Shusha
Goranboy
Mardakert−Martuni
Lachin
Kalbajar
Aghdam
Summer 1993
Horadiz
Kalbajar
The 1988 violence in Shusha and Stepanakert was the expulsion of the ethnic Armenian population of Shusha and the ethnic Azerbaijani population of Stepanakert, in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast in the Azerbaijani SSR, Soviet Union, from September 18 to 20, 1988.[1][2][3] During the violence, 33 Armenians and 16 Azerbaijanis were wounded, more than 30 houses hed been set on fire, and a 61-year-old Armenian was killed.[4] At the end of the violence, 3,117 ethnic Azerbaijanis were forced to leave Stepanakert.[5]
The events was one of the acts of ethnic violence in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, carried out along the demands of the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh to secede from Azerbaijan and unify with Armenia.
^Cite error: The named reference BBC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Заключение Комитета ВС РСФСР по правам человека" [Conclusion of the Human Rights Committee of the RSFSR Supreme Council]. Karabakh Records (in Russian). April 24, 2012. Archived from the original on October 10, 2019.
^Civil Wars of the World: Major Conflicts Since World War II, Том 1, by Uk Heo, Karl DeRouen, 2007
^Gha-ra-bagh!: The Emergence of the National Democratic Movement in Armenia, By Mark Malkasian, Wayne State University Press, 1996, pp. 143-144
^Bakinskiy Rabochiy (27 November 1988). "JPRS report. Soviet Union. Political affairs / Foreign Broadcast Information Service". Political Affairs. The Service: 156.
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