The Shusha or Shushi massacre, also known as the Shusha pogrom, was the mass killing of the Armenian population of Shusha and the surrounding region from 22 to 26 March 1920. The number of deaths vary
Ruins of the Armenian half of Shusha after the city's destruction by the Azerbaijani army in March 1920. In the center: the defaced Armenian Ghazanchetsots Cathedral
Shusha's Armenian quarters in the aftermath of their destruction by Azerbaijani army in March 1920. In the background: defiled Cathedral of the Holy Savior and Aguletsots church.
Ruins of the Armenian part of Shusha after the 1920 pogrom, including the church Servants of God).
The Armenian quarter of Shusha after the massacre, with the Holy Saviour cathedral in the background.
A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, usually applied to attacks on Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to descr
Shusha massacre
…disputed between Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and First Republic of Armenia) Date March 1920 Target Armenian civilians Attack type Massacre, pogrom Deaths See § Death toll Perpetrators Azerbaijani Army and Azerbaijani inhabitants of Shusha The Shusha or Shushi massacre (Armenian: Շուշիի ջարդեր…
The Hep-Hep riots in Würzburg, 1819. On the left, two peasant women are assaulting a Jewish man with a pitchfork and a broom. On the right, a man wearing spectacles, tails and a six-button waistcoat, "perhaps a pharmacist or a schoolteacher," holds a Jewish man by the throat and is about to club him with a truncheon. The houses are being looted. A contemporary engraving by Johann Michael Voltz.
Victims of a pogrom in Kishinev, Bessarabia, 1903
A massacre of Armenians and Assyrians in the city of Adana, Ottoman Empire, April 1909
Iași pogrom in Romania, June 1941