Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Deportation of Azerbaijanis from Armenia" in English language version.
Ronald Grigor Suny Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana State University, 1993
Prior to the Revolution, Azerbaijanis had made up 43 percent of the population of Erevan, but approximately 100,000 were deported from the Armenian SSR in 1948 (Dragadze 1990:166–7).
he decided to resume the "ethnic cleansing" of South Caucasus from suspicious and potential disloyal elements
After the dream of returning "ancestral lands" in Turkey did not materialize, the leaders of Georgia and Armenia began to scheme against Azerbaijan. Grigory Arutyunov complained that he had no room for repatriates (although, instead of the projected 400,000 Armenians arrived in Soviet Armenia, only 90,000 arrived in Soviet Armenia). He proposed to resettle Azeri peasants living in Armenian territory in Azerbaijan
In late 1988, the entire Azerbaijani population (including Muslim Kurds) — some 167000 people — was deported out of the Armenian SSR. In the process, dozens of people died due to isolated Armenian attacks and adverse conditions. This population transfer was partially in response to Armenians being forced out of Azerbaijan, but it was also the last phase of the gradual homogenization of the republic under Soviet rule. The population transfer was the latest episode of ethnic cleansing that increased Armenia's homogenization from 90 percent to 98 percent. Nationalists, in collaboration with the Armenian state authorities, were responsible for this exodus
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