Gugark pogrom
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The Gugark pogrom[1] was a pogrom directed against the Azerbaijani minority of the Gugark District (now a part of the Lori Province) in the Armenian SSR, then part of the Soviet Union.[2][3][4][5]
Gugark pogrom | |
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Part of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict | |
Location | Gugark District, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union |
Date | March – December 1988 (9 months) |
Target | Local Azerbaijani population |
Attack type | Murder, arson, pogrom |
Deaths | 11 (per official Soviet data) 21 (per Arif Yunusov) |
Perpetrators | Local Armenians and Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan |
Motive | A reaction to similar pogroms of Armenians in Azerbaijan |
The pogrom of Azerbaijanis in Gugark in March 1988 followed the earlier pogrom of Armenians in Sumgait in the end of February 1988.[4] The persecution of the Azerbaijanis continued until virtually all of them fled the region.[3] The pogrom was one of the acts of ethnic violence in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which would later erupt into a war.
Azerbaijani sources label the pogrom as a "massacre" (Azerbaijani: Quqark qırğını/qətliamı).[6][7][8]