Baku / 04.12.17 / Turan: Twenty nine years have past since the deportation of Azerbaijanis from their historical settlements - the territory that currently belongs to Armenia. In November-December 1988, from the territory of 8000 square kilometers with 172 cities and villages, the entire indigenous Azerbaijani population was expelled - 182,000 people (data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), 18,000 Kurds and 1,000 Russians (data from the Commission for Refugees of the Supreme Council of Azerbaijan) .
According to the materials of the lawsuit initiated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the former USSR, during the deportation 216 Azerbaijanis were killed. In addition, two heads were cut off, 11 were burned alive, two were burned after the murder, one was brought, three were slaughtered, 29 were crushed by cars, 41 were slaughtered to death, one killed under a current, one brought to suicide, 10 died of a heart attack, eight were lost without a trace; 57 of the dead are women, 23 are children.
For the first time deportation of Azerbaijanis from these territories occurred in the beginning of the 19th century, after the conquest of the Irevan Khanate by Russia. In order to create a social base, the Muslim population was squeezed out of the region on the territory of Irevan, Karabakh khanates and Armenians from Turkey and Iran moved. Deportations were carried out in several stages - in 1905, 1918-1920, 1948-1956 and 1987-1988-.
As confirmed by statistical and archival documents, in just this period, 1.5 million Azerbaijanis were deported from the territory of modern Armenia. After the establishment of Soviet power in Armenia, the names of 698 out of 940 settlements were renamed, in which the Azerbaijani population lived. This process was completed after the complete deportation of Azerbaijanis. By the decree of the former president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan on April 9, 1991 the last 90 Azerbaijani villages were renamed. -03B06-
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