Gugark pogrom
The Gugark pogrom was a pogrom directed against the Azerbaijani minority of the Gugark District (now a part of the Lori Province) in the Armenian SSR, then part of the Soviet Union.
| Gugark pogrom | |
|---|---|
| Part of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict | |
| Location | Gugark District, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Date | March – December 1988 (9 months) |
| Target | Local Azerbaijani population |
Attack type | Murder, arson, pogrom |
| Deaths | 11 (per official Soviet data) 21 (per Arif Yunusov) |
| Perpetrators | Local Armenians and Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan |
| Motive | A reaction to similar pogroms of Armenians in Azerbaijan |
The pogrom of Azerbaijanis in Gugark in March 1988 followed the earlier pogrom of Armenians in Sumgait in the end of February 1988. The persecution of the Azerbaijanis continued until virtually all of them fled the region. The pogrom was one of the acts of ethnic violence in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which would later erupt into a war.
Azerbaijani sources label the pogrom as a "massacre" (Azerbaijani: Quqark qırğını/qətliamı).
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