Redigerer Mars-massakrene

[[Fil:Azerbaijani victims in Baku.jpg|mini|Aserbajdsjanske ofre i Baku]]
'''Mars-massakrene''', også kjent som  '''Mars-hendelene''' og '''Mars folkemordet''' (aserbajdsjansk: Mart soyqırımı) refererer til de armenske massakrene på opptil 12 000 aserier og muslimer<ref name="York Times Current History 1920 p. 492">{{cite journal |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |year=1920 |month=March |title=New Republics in the Caucasus |journal=The New York Times Current History |publisher= |volume=11 |issue=2 |page=492 |url= |doi= }}</ref>  i [[Baku]] og området rundt i løpet av den korte perioden fra 30. mars 1918 til 2. april 1918 <ref name="smithmusavat">{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Michael |last2= |first2= |year=2001 |month=April |title=Anatomy of Rumor: Murder Scandal, the Musavat Party and Narrative of the Russian Revolution in Baku, 1917-1920 |journal=Journal of Contemporary History |publisher= |volume=36 |issue=2 |page=228 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-contemporary-history_2001-04_36_2/page/228|doi= |quote=''The results of the March events were immediate and total for the Musavat. Several hundreds of its members were killed in the fighting; up to 12,000 Muslim civilians perished; thousands of others fled Baku in a mass exodus''}}</ref><ref name="minahan">{{cite book |title=Miniature Empires: A Historical Dictionary of the Newly Independent States |year=1998 |last=Minahan |first=James B. |authorlink= |coauthors= |publisher= |location= |isbn=0-313-30610-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/miniatureempires0000mina/page/22 22] |pages= |url=https://archive.org/details/miniatureempires0000mina|accessdate= |quote=''The tensions and fighting between the Azeris and the Armenians in the federation culminated in the massacre of some 12,000 Azeris in Baku by radical Armenians and Bolshevik troops in March 1918''}}</ref> <ref name="Smith">{{språkikon|ru}} {{cite web |url=http://www.sakharov-center.ru/publications/azrus/az_004.htm |title=Pamiat' ob utratakh i Azerbaidzhanskoe obshchestvo/Traumatic Loss and Azerbaijani. National Memory |author=Michael Smith |date= |work=Azerbaidzhan i Rossiia: obshchestva i gosudarstva (Azerbaijan and Russia: Societies and States) |publisher=Sakharov Center |accessdate=21. august 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310011358/http://www.sakharov-center.ru/publications/azrus/az_004.htm |archivedate=2011-03-10 |tittel=Arkivert kopi |besøksdato=2011-08-21 |arkivurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310011358/http://www.sakharov-center.ru/publications/azrus/az_004.htm |arkivdato=2011-03-10 |url-status=død }} {{Kilde www |url=http://www.sakharov-center.ru/publications/azrus/az_004.htm |tittel=Arkivert kopi |besøksdato=2012-09-07 |arkiv-dato=2011-03-10 |arkiv-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310011358/http://www.sakharov-center.ru/publications/azrus/az_004.htm |url-status=yes }}</ref>.

Aserbajdsjan betegner offisielt hendelsene som ''soyqırım'' (''folkemord'').<ref name="decree">[[s:Decree of President of Republic of Azerbaijan about genocide of Azerbaijani people|Decree of President of Republic of Azerbaijan about genocide of Azerbaijani people, March 1998]]</ref><ref>[http://assembly.coe.int/main.asp?Link=/documents/workingdocs/doc01/edoc9066.htm PACE Written Declaration, "Recognition of the genocide perpetrated against the Azeri population by the Armenians", Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Doc. 9066 2nd edition, 14 May 2001]</ref>, mens Armenia benekter at dette var et folkemord.

27. mars 2012 vedtok senatet i [[New York]] en [[resolusjon]] der 31. mars ble proklamert som en minnedag for aserbajdsjanere som ble drept i 1918 og beskrev Mars-massakrene som et [[folkemord]] utført av armenere og russere <ref>{{cite web |url=http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/J3784-2011 |title=J3784-2011: Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim Saturday, March 31, 2012 as Azerbaijani Remembrance Day in the State of New York |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=27. mars 2012 |work= |publisher=The New York State Senate |accessdate=30. juni 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nevada governor proclaims 31 March Azerbaijani Remembrance Day|url=http://www.news.az/articles/politics/29254|publisher=news.az|accessdate=4. januar 2011|archive-date=2018-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129140546/https://news.az/articles/politics/29254|url-status=yes}}</ref>.

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