The Kirovabad pogrom was an Azeri-led pogrom that targeted Armenians living in the city of Kirovabad (today called Ganja) in Soviet Azerbaijan during November 1988. An unidentified Armenian press editor said the commander of the Soviet troops asked the Interior Ministry in Moscow for permission to evacuate some of the city's Armenian population of 100,000. However, attempts by Soviet troops to defend Armenians during the pogrom were to no avail.

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  • The Kirovabad pogrom was an Azeri-led pogrom that targeted Armenians living in the city of Kirovabad (today called Ganja) in Soviet Azerbaijan during November 1988. An unidentified Armenian press editor said the commander of the Soviet troops asked the Interior Ministry in Moscow for permission to evacuate some of the city's Armenian population of 100,000. However, attempts by Soviet troops to defend Armenians during the pogrom were to no avail. The conflict intensified in the fall of 1988, as the Armenians of Kirovabad and the surrounding countryside were driven from their homes and forced to seek haven in Armenia. On November 23, an attempt of pogrom against the building of the city's Executive committee took place. During the clashes between the aggressive crowd and the armed forces who tried to keep the order and to defend the Armenian citizens three soldiers were killed, and 67 people were wounded. Hooligans burned down and damaged the military machines. At the time, Soviet human rights activist Andrei Sakharov, in Massachusetts during the unrest, said he had received reports from the Soviet Union that more than 130 Armenians were killed and more than 200 wounded in the violence. In 1990, Yuri Rost mentions forty deaths, one third of whom were ethnic Azeris killed in clashes with the Soviet troops, however in the same year Sakharov admitted in his memoirs that releasing the figures about the numbers of Armenian causalities was a deplorable mistake. He writes: According to the high ranked KGB officers who were involved in these events, pogroms and violence were prevented due to the efforts of the Soviet army and local authorities, and there were no casualties among the civil population.
  • El pogromo de Kirovabad fue un pogromo azerí contra la población armenia que vivía en el pueblo azerbayano de Kirovabad en noviembre 1988. Según el activista soviético de derechos humanos Andrei Sakharov, más de 130 armenios fueron asesinados en la violencia, además tres soldados soviéticos,
  • Kirovabad Pogromu, Kasım 1988'de Azerbaycan Sovyet Sosyalist Cumhuriyeti'nin Kirovabad kentinde Azeriler tarafından işlenen ve Ermeni sakinlerini hedef alan pogrom. Kimliği belirlenemeyen Ermeni basın editörü, Sovyet Ordusu kumandanınin 100.000 Ermeninin kenti terketmesi için Moskova'daki İçişleri Bakanlığından izin istemiştir. Pogrom sırasında Ermenileri korumayı amaçlayan Sovyet Ordusu'nun girişimi boşuna gitmiştir. 1988 güzün çatışma şiddetlenmiş ve Kirovabad ve kırsal çevresindeki Ermeniler kendi evlerinden sürünüp Ermenistan'da sığınaklarını aramak zorunda kalmışlardır.
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  • The Kirovabad pogrom was an Azeri-led pogrom that targeted Armenians living in the city of Kirovabad (today called Ganja) in Soviet Azerbaijan during November 1988. An unidentified Armenian press editor said the commander of the Soviet troops asked the Interior Ministry in Moscow for permission to evacuate some of the city's Armenian population of 100,000. However, attempts by Soviet troops to defend Armenians during the pogrom were to no avail.
  • El pogromo de Kirovabad fue un pogromo azerí contra la población armenia que vivía en el pueblo azerbayano de Kirovabad en noviembre 1988. Según el activista soviético de derechos humanos Andrei Sakharov, más de 130 armenios fueron asesinados en la violencia, además tres soldados soviéticos,
  • Kirovabad Pogromu, Kasım 1988'de Azerbaycan Sovyet Sosyalist Cumhuriyeti'nin Kirovabad kentinde Azeriler tarafından işlenen ve Ermeni sakinlerini hedef alan pogrom. Kimliği belirlenemeyen Ermeni basın editörü, Sovyet Ordusu kumandanınin 100.000 Ermeninin kenti terketmesi için Moskova'daki İçişleri Bakanlığından izin istemiştir. Pogrom sırasında Ermenileri korumayı amaçlayan Sovyet Ordusu'nun girişimi boşuna gitmiştir.
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  • Kirovabad pogrom
  • Pogromo de Kirovabad
  • Kirovabad Pogromu
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