ArmInfo. What happened in Baku at the beginning of the 20th century was repeated with the same horror at the end of the 20th century, former press secretary of the Artsakh Defense Army, Colonel Senor Hasratyan, wrote on his Facebook account on the next anniversary of the Armenian pogroms in Azerbaijan.
At the same time, he drew attention to the fact that at the beginning of the 20th century, the Armenians did not have statehood, but today, it seems, they do. "But, anyway, the Turk prefers the game "Armenian Massacre" ...," the officer summarized.
On January 13, 1990, mass riots on ethnic grounds began in the capital of Azerbaijan, which were accompanied by mass violence against the Armenian population, robberies, murders, arson and destruction of property. According to various sources, the victims of the pogroms were from 48 to 90 (according to some sources - up to three hundred) people. According to Human Rights Watch reporter Robert Kushen, "the pogroms were not completely spontaneous, since the pogromists had lists of Armenians and their addresses." By the beginning of the Karabakh conflict, about 200 thousand Armenians lived in Baku, with a total population of 1.7 million people. At the end of February 1988, a pogrom with numerous casualties among Armenians occurred in Sumgait, which became a landmark