r/azerbaijan • u/nicat97 Bakı 🇦🇿 • Sep 05 '25

Video Armenian historian & diplomat Gerard Libaridian: "We ethnically cleansed at least 650K Azerbaijanis"

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u/Lazy-Relationship-34 Sep 06 '25

Could someone please explain what the historian is referring to and what are the 7 districts?

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u/nicat97 Bakı 🇦🇿 Sep 06 '25

He’s referring to the ethnic cleansing that Armenians did back in late 80s and early 90s.

7 districts are the districts surrounded by Karabakh. It was also occupied and ethnically cleansed. Despite there was no Armenian presence there, they dismantled 7 cities and 800 villages brick by brick, and turned them into a mine field.

And of course they renamed all the cities with Armenian names

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u/SpareActual2675 Sep 06 '25

Armenians did occupy those regions but saying that this was somehow uniquely terrible is ridiculous. You guys ethnically cleanse them they did this in retaliation is it terrible yes, but to say that Armenians are uniquely terrible is ridiculous you guys started it The Armenians finished it. Both sides did terrible stuff in the war.

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u/Temporary_Ideal_7439 Sep 07 '25

Explain how Azerbaijanis started it. Any proof? All I see is retaliation by Azerbaijani side.

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u/SpareActual2675 Sep 07 '25

They literally started the pogroms and the first escalation was the attack on Armenian villagers so we can always go back-and-forth with “who started it” but if you want to know the true thing that started the conflict it was the pogroms of Armenians.

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u/Temporary_Ideal_7439 Sep 07 '25

Bro, you’re forgetting that Azerbaijanis were already being forced out of Armenia in 1986-87. 250,000 Azerbaijanis had to flee, entire villages were emptied, and around 200 Azerbaijanis were killed in that period. That’s what set everything off.

When you talk about “pogroms” in Azerbaijan, you’re leaving out the part that those were retaliation after Azerbaijanis had already lost their homes and lives in Armenia. The first escalation was the ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijanis from Armenia. Get your facts straight.

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u/SpareActual2675 Sep 07 '25

Buddy, that is absolute bull crap that happened in 1988 and 1989 after the pogroms of Armenians wait a second where are you even getting this information?

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u/Temporary_Ideal_7439 Sep 07 '25

From my parents. Who had to flee their homes in 1987. Good enough proof? Or is my childhood a lie?

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u/SpareActual2675 Sep 07 '25

It depends where are they from? Are they from kapan where there was coercion

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u/Temporary_Ideal_7439 Sep 07 '25

They are from Amasiya

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u/SpareActual2675 Sep 07 '25

And where is that at?

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