List of massacres in Azerbaijan

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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Azerbaijan (numbers may be approximate):

Name	Year	Date	Location	Deaths	Victims	Notes
Battle of Ganja (1804)	1804	February	Ganja	3,000[1][2]-7,000[3]	Azeri inhabitants of Ganja	Civilians were massacred during the capture of the city by the Russians; some of the captured soldiers were executed[4]
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[5][6][7]
March Days	1918	March 30-April 2	Azerbaijan	3,000-12,000	Azeris	Other Muslims were killed as well.[8] Other Muslim ethnicities were killed as well.[8]
September Days	1918	September	Baku	10,000-30,000	Armenians	Armenians killed by the Army of Islam;[9][10] victims include small children, and many robberies and rapes took place during the massacre[11]
Khaibalikend Massacre	1919	June 5-7	Nagorno-Karabakh	600-700	Armenians	Armenians killed by armed ethnic Azeri and Kurdish irregulars and Azerbaijani soldiers;[12] many women and children were killed, bodies were dumped into water wells, and the villages of Khaibalikend, Jamillu, Karkujahan and Pahliul were destroyed[13][14]
Shusha pogrom	1920	March 22–26	Shusha	20,000-30,000[15][16]	Armenians	Armenians killed by Azerbaijanis; many children were killed and many women were raped
Sumgait pogrom	1988	February 27-March 1	Sumgait	32	Armenians	Armenians killed by Azeris; 20 ambulances were destroyed,[17] and reports detail widespread rape,[18] mutilation, robberies, and disembowling of fetuses[19]
Kirovabad pogrom	1988	November	Kirovabad	130[20]	Armenians	Armenians killed by Azeris[21]
Baku Pogrom	1990	January 13	Baku	90	Armenians	Armenians killed; many incidents of rape, robbery, and torture;[22] 700 injured[23]
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[24]
Capture of Garadaghly	1992	February 17	Qaradağlı, Khojavend	20-90	Azeris	Azeris killed[25]
Khojaly Massacre	1992	February 25—26	Xocalı, Azerbaijan	161-613	Azeris	Azeris killed by Armenian Troops; many women and children among the dead
Maraga Massacre	1992	April 10	Maraga	40-100	Armenians	Armenians killed, many decapitated; bodies were buried in a mass grave outside the village[26]

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25. "Letter dated 20 May 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General" (PDF). Retrieved August 24, 2012.
26. Cox, Caroline and John Eibner. Ethnic Cleansing in Progress: War in Nagorno Karabakh. Zurich and Washington D.C.: Institute for Religious Minorities in the Islamic World, p. 58, 1993.