Anniversaries: X years ago today

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35 years ago today, a seven-day pogrom broke out against the Armenian civilian population in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, during which Armenians were beaten, murdered, and expelled from the city. (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

TIL https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom

A pogrom[a] is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews.[1] The term entered the English language from Russian to describe 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire (mostly within the Pale of Settlement).