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1988 violence in Shusha and Stepanakert
| 1988 violence in Shusha and Stepanakert | |
|---|---|
| Part of the 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 |
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.
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- ^ 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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