# List of massacres in Azerbaijan

The following lists are of massacres that have occurred within the current boundaries of Azerbaijan (numbers may be approximate).

## Before 1988

| Name | Year | Date | Location | Deaths | Targeted group | Notes |
| Sack of Shamakhi | 1721 | 18 August | Shamakhi | 4,000–5,000 | Shia inhabitants of Shamakhi | Shia inhabitants of the city (includes the city's officials) were killed by rebellious Sunni Lezgin tribesmen. |
| Battle of Ganja (1804) | 1804 | February | Ganja | 1,500–3,000 | Inhabitants of Ganja | Civilians were massacred during the capture of the city by the Russians; some of the captured soldiers were executed |
| Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1907 | 1905–1907 | February | Baku; Nakhchivan; Shusha; Tiflis | 3,000–10,000 | Armenians, Azerbaijanis | |
| Shamkhor Massacre | 1918 | January | Şəmkir | 1,000 | armed Russian soldiers | Russian soldiers killed by Azerbaijani nationalists |
| March Days | 1918 | March 30 – April 2 | Azerbaijan | 12,000–25,000 | Azerbaijanis | According to the statements of Azerbaijan representatives, "the Bolsheviks". |
| September Days | 1918 | September | Baku | 10,000–15,000 | Armenians | Armenians killed by the Army of Islam |
| Khaibalikend Massacre | 1919 | June 5–7 | Nagorno-Karabakh | 600–700 | Armenians | Armenians killed by armed ethnic Azerbaijani and Kurdish irregulars and Azerbaijani soldiers; Villages of Khaibalikend, Jamillu, Karkujahan and Pahliul were destroyed |
| Muslim uprisings in Kars and Sharur–Nakhichevan | 1919–1920 | July–December | Nakhchivan | 10,000 | Armenians | |
| Agulis Massacre | 1919 | December 24–25 | Yuxarı Əylis | 1,400 | Armenians | Early-20th-century anti-Armenian massacre of the Armenian population of Agulis by the Turkish army accompanied by the Azerbaijani refugees from Zangezur which resulted in the destruction of the town of Agulis. |
| Shusha pogrom | 1920 | March 22–26 | Shusha | 500–20,000 | Armenians | Armenians killed by Azerbaijanis |
| 1920 Ganja Revolt | 1920 | June | Ganja | 15,000 | Azerbaijanis | Bolsheviks slaughtered civilians including women and children after the capture of rebel Ganja. Many women were raped and Koran were burnt. |

## Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

The following is a list of massacres and pogroms, which took place in the course of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.
| Name | Year | Date | Location | Deaths | Targeted group | Notes |
| Sumgait pogrom | 1988 | February 27 – March 1 | Sumgait | 32 (26 Armenians and 6 Azerbaijanis) | Armenians | Armenians killed by Azerbaijanis; 20 ambulances were destroyed, and reports detail widespread rape, mutilation, robberies and disemboweling of fetuses |
| Kirovabad pogrom | 1988 | November | Kirovabad | 130 Armenians | Armenians | Azeri-led pogrom directed against Armenian inhabitants of Kirovabad (now Ganja) |
| Baku Pogrom | 1990 | January 13 | Baku | 90 | Armenians | Armenians killed by Azerbaijanis; many incidents of rape, robbery and torture; 700 injured. |
| Black January | 1990 | January 19–20 | Baku, Azerbaijan | 133–137 | Peaceful protesters of the Azerbaijani national independence movement | Killed by Soviet troops; ambulance workers rushing to help the wounded and random passers-by, including women and children, among the dead |
| Operation Ring | 1991 | April 30 – May 15 | Shahumyan Province | unknown | Armenians | number of casualties unknown, approximately 17,000 people displaced, gross human rights violations |
| Capture of Gushchular and Malibeyli | 1992 | February 10–12 | Malibeyli, Ashaghi Gushchular, Yukhari Gushchular villages of Shusha District | 8 (per Helsinki Watch) 15–50 (per Azerbaijan) | Azerbaijanis | Azerbaijanis killed by Armenian irregular armed units |
| Khojaly Massacre | 1992 | February 25–26 | Khojaly, Azerbaijan | More than 200 (per Human Rights Watch) 613 (per Azerbaijan) | Azerbaijanis | Azerbaijanis killed by Armenian troops. |
| Maraga Massacre | 1992 | April 10 | Maraga | 40–100 | Armenians | Armenians killed (many decapitated); corpses buried in a mass grave outside the village. |