September Days
1918 massacre of Armenians in Baku / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The September Days (Armenian: 1918 թ. Բաքվի հայերի կոտորած, romanized: Bakvi hayeri kotorats, lit. '1918 massacre of Baku Armenians') refers to a period during the Russian Civil War in September 1918 when Armenian inhabitants of Baku were massacred by Enver Pasha's Army of Islam and their local Azeri allies when they captured Baku, the soon-to-be capital of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.[2][3][4] According to most estimates, approximately 10,000 ethnic Armenians were killed in the violence, although some sources claim the number to be as high as 30,000.[2][3][4][5] The massacre is said by some scholars to have been carried out in retaliation for the earlier March Days, in which Dashnak and Bolshevik forces had massacred Azerbaijani inhabitants of the city in March 1918.[4][6][7] It was the last major massacre of World War I.[5]
September Days | |
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Part of the persecution of Armenians | |
Location | Baku, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic |
Date | September 1918 |
Deaths | 10,000–30,000 Armenians killed; rest of Armenian community deported[1] |
Perpetrators | Army of Islam Local Azerbaijani irregulars |