List of massacres in Azerbaijan

The following lists are of massacres that have occurred in Azerbaijan (numbers may be approximate).

Before 1980

Name	Year	Date	Location	Deaths	Victims	Notes
Battle of Ganja (1804)	1804	February	Ganja	3,000[1]-7,000[2]	Azeri inhabitants of Ganja	Civilians were massacred during the capture of the city by the Russians; some of the captured soldiers were executed[3]
Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1907	1905– 1907	February	Baku; Nakhichevan; Shusha; Tiflis	3,000-10,000	Armenians, Azeris
Shamkhor Massacre	1918	January	Şəmkir	1,000	Russians	Russian soldiers killed by Azerbaijani nationalists[4][5][6]
March Days	1918	March 30-April 2	Azerbaijan	3,000-12,000	Azeris	Other Muslims [7] and other Muslim ethnicities were killed as well.[7]
September Days	1918	September	Baku	10,000-30,000	Armenians	Armenians killed by the Army of Islam;[8][9] victims include small children, and many robberies and rapes took place during the massacre[10]
Khaibalikend Massacre	1919	June 5-7	Nagorno-Karabakh	600-700	Armenians	Armenians killed by armed ethnic Azeri and Kurdish irregulars and Azerbaijani soldiers;[11] many women and children were killed, bodies were dumped into water wells, and the villages of Khaibalikend, Jamillu, Karkujahan and Pahliul were destroyed[12][13]
Shusha pogrom	1920	March 22–26	Shusha	500[14][15]-30,000[16][17]	Armenians	Armenians killed by Azerbaijanis; many children were killed and many women were raped
1920 Ganja Revolt	1920	June	Ganja	15,000	Azeris	Bolsheviks slaughtered civilians including women and children after the capture of rebel Ganja. Many women were raped and Koran were burnt.[18][19]

Nagorno-Karabakh War

The following is a list of massacres and pogroms, which took place in the course of the Nagorno-Karabakh War between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.

Name	Year	Date	Location	Deaths	Victims	Notes
Sumgait pogrom	1988	February 27-March 1	Sumgait	32	Armenians	Armenians killed by Azeris; 20 ambulances were destroyed,[20] and reports detail widespread rape,[21] mutilation, robberies, and disembowling of fetuses[22][23]
Kirovabad pogrom	1988	November	Kirovabad	130[24]	Armenians	Armenians killed by Azeris[25][26]
Baku Pogrom	1990	January 13	Baku	90	Armenians	Armenians killed; many incidents of rape, robbery, and torture;[27] 700 injured[28][29]
Black January	1990	January 19–20	Baku, Azerbaijan	133-137	Azeris	Azeris killed by Soviets; many women and children among the dead
Malibeyli and Gushchular Massacre	1992	February 10–12	Malibeyli, Ashaghi Gushchular, Yukhari Gushchular villages of Shusha Rayon	8-15	Azeris	Azeris killed by Armenian irregular armed units[30]
Capture of Garadaghly	1992	February 17	Qaradağlı, Khojavend	20-90	Azeris	Azeris killed[31]
Khojaly Massacre	1992	February 25—26	Xocalı, Azerbaijan	161-613	Azeris	Azeris killed by Armenian Troops; many women and children among the dead[32]
Maraga Massacre	1992	April 10	Maraga	40-100	Armenians	Armenians killed, many decapitated; bodies were buried in a mass grave outside the village[33]

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