Հայերի Նկատմամբ Զանգվածային Բռնությունների Նախահիմքերը Ադրբեջանի Քաղաքականությունում

Abstract

This work aims at revealing the premises of the mass violations’ policy in different periods of Azerbaijani statehood and the grounds which the Armenian pogroms were later carried out on. The objective of the work is to substantiate the consistent and continuous nature of the state-level policy of ethnic discrimination based on the study of separate episodes of such a policy pursued by the Azerbaijani authorities, regardless of the phase features of the Azerbaijani statehood formation and development. The work is written by a combined examination of facts, applying the principles of historical analysis. Based on the results of the study, the 1988-1990 mass violations against Armenians in the Soviet Azerbaijan, which expressed themselves in the form of ethnic cleansing and genocidal manifestations, were not just reactive localized crimes, and consequently, the circle of those responsible for them could not have been limited to separate implementers. The violence against Armenians has been an extreme manifestation of a decades-long policy.