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Khojaly genocide
At night from February 25 to 26 the Armenian armed forces occupied the town of Khojaly. The occupation was carried out with active support of several units of the Russian Army's 366th regiment. Occupation of Khojaly was followed with unprecedented brutalities against the civilian population. In a few hours the aggressors killed 613 innocent and unarmed people. Among them were 106 women, 83 children. 56 people were killed with special brutality. 8 families were totally exterminated. 25 children were totally, and 130 children were partly orphaned. 476 people became disabled persons (of them 76 were minors). 1275 people were taken into hostage and even though afterwards most of the hostages were released from captivity, the fates of 150 of them are still unknown.
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GENOCIDE OF AZERIS IN THE WESTERN AZERBAIJAN (PRESENT-DAY ARMENIA)
The end of the XIX c. and the whole XX c. entered the history of Azerbaijan as the period of the most frightening tortures, bloodshed, expatriation and extermination by means of physical and moral genocide. From 2310 settlements situated in the territory of present-day Armenia in Erivan, Echmiadzin, Yeni Bayazid, Aleksandropol districts (uyezds) of Erivan province (gubernia); in Zangezur and Kazakh-Dilijan districts of the Ganje province, Lori-Pambek (Borchaly) district of the Tiflis province, 2000 belonged to Azeris1. Armenian population was mainly settled to the area in 1828-1830 and in 1915-1918 from Turkey and Iran. The Р’В«Dictionary of Toponyms of Armenia and Surrounding RegionsР’В» Vol. 1 (four-volumed) issued by the Yerevan University in 1986 confirms this truth once more. This work points that the population of more than 70% of the Armenian villages are the settlers (immigrants) of 1828-1829 from Turkey and Iran. Russian author Shavrov N.I. also writes about these facts in his book Р’В«New Threat to the Russian Affairs in the CaucasusР’В»: Р’В«After the war of 1826-1828 ended, within two years from 1828 to 1830 we moved 40,000 Persian and 84,600 Turkish Armenians to the Caucasus and settled them in the best state lands in the provinces of Yelizavetpol (Ganje) and Erivan? most of the settlers are Armenians as from 1mln 300 thousand Armenians living today in the Caucasus, more than 1mln people don't belong to the native inhabitants and were settled by us.Р’В»2
The statistical data from chronicles of the Р’В«Caucasus CalendarР’В» confirm that Azeris lived much earlier than Armenians in the territory of present-day Armenia. For example, in 1886 from 326 villages of the Zangezur district of Ganje (Yelizavetpol) province 154 villages (45,7%) were Azeri, 91 (27,8%) were Kurdish and only 81 villages (24,8%) were Armenian ones.
In 1897 the Zangezur population was 142 thousand people, 71,2 thousand (50,1%) of them were Azeris, and 63,6 thousand (44,8%) - Armenians.
Till 1920 in the districts of the Erivan province that were part of Azerbaijan, especially in the Erivan district, the Azeri population was much more than the Armenian population. For example, from 99 thousand people living in the district 62,6 thousand (66%) were Azeris, 36,4 thousand (34%) were Armenians.
In the Echmiadzin, Yeni Bayazid, Surmali districts of the Erivan province the Azeri population constituted the 2/3 (two thirds) of the total population.
According to the data for January 1, 1916 the ethnic composition of these territories showed the predominance of Azeris again. There were 74,2 thousand Azeris in Erivan district; 119,5 thousand- in Zangezur district; 50,7 thousand- in Bayazid district; 45 thousand- in Surmali district. These figures graphically prove that in the beginning of the XIX and XX cc. the majority of the local population of present-day Armenia consisted of Azeris.
Very objective in his approach to the events, a professor from the USA Justin McCarty writes in his book Р’В«If the Genocide took place?Р’В» when characterizing the Russian colonial politics, that Russians attacked Eastern Anatolia twice in 1828 and in 1854, and in both cases local Armenians supported them. When in both cases Russians had to retreat they brought with them 100 thousand of their supporters to the Caucasus, locating them at homes of the expelled Moslems (in the Erivan province, which is the part of present-day Armenia, 80% of population were Moslems [Azeris] before 1828). Continuing his thought the professor writes: Р’В«Certainly, the figures might be inexact and we need an additional object for the researches. But we know exactly, that from 1828 to 1920 approximately 600 thousand Armenians were settled in the territory of Russian Empire. And two million Moslems left Russia.Р’В»
At the end of XIX c. and beginning of the XX c. Armenians who lost their independence and statehood for 1500 years believed to the fraudulent promises of Russia, Britain and France regarding the establishment of an Armenian autonomy in the territory of the Ottoman Empire. But Armenians, who couldn't achieve this goal, as a result of Armenian-Turkish conflict, had to migrate to the Caucasus, where they began to demand not merely autonomy in the Caucasus or the establishment of an Armenian state but they began to claim much more. They demanded the establishment of an Armenian state from sea to sea (from Black Sea to the Caspian Sea) under the name of Р’В«Greater ArmeniaР’В». For that purpose, they needed Р’В«proofsР’В» that in the territory called Armenia Armenians constituted the majority. But the historical facts prove the reverse. And as a consequence of Armenian-Turkish conflicts in 1894-1896 and anti-Turk moods among Armenians, the genocide of Azeris in the Armenian-Moslem fight of 1905 took place.
Source: Р’В«Historical geography of the Western AzerbaijanР’В» Baku 1998 (In Russian)
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