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The Askeran clash (February 22-23, 1988) was one of the starting points of Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Background
The demonstrations in Yerevan and by the Armenian community of Nagorno-Karabakh with demands of seceding from Azerbaijan SSR and joining Armenian SSR brought to rebirth of the long dormant ethnic Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over the region. On February 22, 1988 Azerbaijani demonstration marching towards Nagorno-Karabakh was dispersed by Armenians in the village of Askeran, Azerbaijan, leaving two Azerbaijanis dead .
On Azerbaijani Radio, deputy attorney general Katusev reported the fact that ‘two inhabitants of the Agdam district fell victim to murder’, giving two Muslim surnames . These news, according to Tamara Dragadze, were announced to show the gravity of the conflict and to calm down sentiments .
The news of these clashes along with ongoing deportation of Azerbaijanis from Armenia sparked Sumgait Pogrom against Armenian residents of the city of Sumgait in Azerbaijan . The violence was led, to some degree, by refugees from Armenia, perhaps as many as 2000 of them made even more desperate by being forced to take shelter in the appalling conditions of Sumgaits shantytown.
References
- Peter Rutland. "Democracy and Nationalism in Armenia", Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 46, No. 5. (1994), p. 842
- Elizabeth Fuller, “Nagorno-Karabakh: The Death and Casualty Toll to Date,” RL 531/88, Dec. 14, 1988, pp. 1–2
- Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War - Page 63 by Stuart J. Kaufman
- The New York Times, 11 March 1988, p. A6
- The Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict: Structure and Sentiment”, in Third World Quarterly, No. 1 (January) 1989, p. 56; or Dragadze
- Ethnic Fears and Ethnic War In Karabagh - Stuart J. Kaufman - Page 23
- Tamara Dragadze, “Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijanis,” in Graham Smith, ed., The Nationalities Question in the Soviet Union (London: Longman, 1990), p. 175.
- Moskovskie novosti, April 17, 1988, tr. in CDSP vol. 40, no. 17, pp. 12–13.