Policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide against Azerbaijanis (1988-1994)
The last stage of the Armenian policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide against Azerbaijanis covers the period from 1988 to 1994. Since 1988, from 22 districts, 170 villages and 94 settlements of the Armenian SSR, in which Azerbaijanis lived compactly with Armenians, about 250 thousand of our compatriots were deported from their historical lands. Thus, the process of ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijanis from the Armenian SSR was completed.
According to the Batumi agreement, signed in 1918, the territory of Armenia was 9 thousand km2, but in Soviet period it was increased to 29.7 thousand km2 due to Azerbaijani lands. The hated enemy, together with the occupied territories, appropriated 45 thousand km2 of Azerbaijani lands.
