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Gugark massacre
- Armenian genocide against Azerbaijanis in the Gugark region of the Armenian USSR in November 1988. The consequences of the genocide According to the witnesses, the perpetrators of the Gugark massacre were members of ASALA.

On November 26, 1988, Armenians carried out a massacre in the Vartanlı village of Gugark province. On the one hand, the village of Vartanlı was in the middle, adjacent to the city of Kirovakan. Armenians entered houses, burned and plundered. A man named Garib, a respected member of the county council who lost a foot in the Second World War, was evacuated from his home, wrapped in an apple tree in his garden, poured gasoline and set on fire. In that village, the Armenians tied 13 people, including one foreigner, alive to a tree and set it on fire. The rest of the population, most women and children, fled into the forest.

Since November 27, Armenians have carried out similar incidents in other villages where Azerbaijanis live. Therefore, on November 30, 1988, the leadership of the USSR declared martial law.

Azerbaijani historian-publisher Arif Yunusov gave extensive information about the mass looting in Armenia in his articles. He noted that 215 Azerbaijanis were killed, 21 in Gugark, during the pillage in Armenia. 15 of them were burned alive. Twelve of them were Azerbaijanis living in Barkan village. In 1991, Fatulla Huseynov, commander of the police regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, reported that a total of 167 Azerbaijanis were killed in Gugrak.

Course of events
Moscow remained silent, although the USSR State Security Committee reported the events. In November, Azerbaijanis were killed in Gugark, their homes were looted and burned for several days. The reason is that they are Azerbaijani.

On December 7, the New York Times reported that the first secretary of the Armenian radio's Communist Party of Gugark and the head of the county council were expelled only after the massacres had ended and the Azerbaijanis were driven from the land.

Газета Труд, № 020 за 01.02.2001. 10 баллов по шкале Политбюро Газета "Экспресс-Хроника", № 16, 16.04.1991 г. Quqark hadisələrinin canlı şahidi: “Gecə kəndə od vurdular” - VİDEO. publika.az, 31.03.2017 (azərb.) "Газета Экспресс-хроника", № 9(186), 26.02 1991 г. Fətulla Hüseynov Monday the Armenian radio reported that the Communist Party leader and head of parliament in the Gugark area had shown "political short-sightedness." The two men had been relieved of their duties after ethnic fights there resulted in "tragic consequences." New York Times. 3 More Killed in Soviet Ethnic