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1- According to the description of Azerbaijani communist Odzhakhkuli Musayev, "a ruthless destruction of defenceless women, children, old women and old men began. Armenians were exposed to a mass slaughter .... And what beautiful Armenian girls were raped and then shot. ... At an order of ... Khosrov-bek Sultanov, pogroms proceeded for more than six days, houses in the Armenian part were crushed, plundered and reduced all to ashes, everyone led women away whenever they wished, to musavatist executioners. During these historically « artful » punishments Khosrov-bek Sultanov, keeping speeches, talked to Moslems about holy war (Jihad) and called on to them to finish off the Armenians of city Shusha, not sparing women, children, etc. »

According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Third Edition, 1970), these events contributed to the death of 2,096 of the city’s population. Subsequently, only a few Armenian families remained.

Nadezhda Mandelstam wrote about Shushi in the 1920s : " ... in this town, which formerly, of course, was healthy and with every amenity, the picture of catastrophe and massacres was terribly vivid ... They say after the massacres all the wells were full of corpses. ( ... ) We didn’t see anyone in the streets or on the mountain. Only downtown, in the market-square there were a lot of people, but there wasn’t any Armenian among them, they were all Muslims."

On January 21, 1936, in the Moscow Kremlin, during the reception of the delegation from the Azerbaijan SSR, Sergo Ordzhonikidze remembers his visit to destroyed Shushi : "Even today I remember what I saw in Shusha in 1920, with horror. The most beautiful Armenian town was completely destroyed, and in the wells we saw corpses of women and children

2- For three days in February 1988, the city of Soumgaït, in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan, experienced a real genocide. The Christian Armenian population was savagely attacked by the Azerbaijanis : dozens of people killed, beaten, tortured and burned alive, women and teenage girls raped, hundreds of apartments looted, ransacked and destroyed.

The drama of Soumgaït is not only racial, it is also political. It is the one that all the ethnic groups of the various components of the USSR set.

In condemning the pogroms of Soumgaït, Soviet scholars wrote, "Since the Stalinist ferocities, nothing has happened in our country that has rejected us so far back, from civilization to savagery."

This is the atrocious picture of this savagery that we present to you from the stories of the Survivors

Andrei Sakharov said : « For Azerbaijan, the question of Karabakh is a matter of ambition ; for the Armenians it is a matter of life and death ».

https://www.seuil.com/ouvrage/la-tragedie-de-soumgait-un-pogrom-d-armeniens-en-union-sovietique-anonyme/9782020135795