1988 violence in Shusha and Stepanakert

1988 violence in Shusha and Stepanakert
Part of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Map of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
Location	Shusha and Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Date	September 18–20, 1988 (2 days)
Target	Armenian population of Shusha and Azerbaijani population of Stepanakert
Attack type	Expulsion
Deaths	1
Injured	49

The 1988 violence in Shusha and Stepanakert was the expulsion of the ethnic Armenian population of Shusha and the ethnic Azerbaijani population of Stepanakert, in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast in the Azerbaijani SSR, Soviet Union, from September 18 to 20, 1988.^[1][2][3] During the violence, 33 Armenians and 16 Azerbaijanis were wounded, more than 30 houses hed been set on fire, and a 61-year-old Armenian was killed.^[4] At the end of the violence, 3,117 ethnic Azerbaijanis were forced to leave Stepanakert.^[5]

The events was one of the acts of ethnic violence in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, carried out along the demands of the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh to secede from Azerbaijan and unify with Armenia.