Eruption

Glasnost reopens the Karabakh question; pogroms, war, and approximately one million displaced over six years.

The 1985-1994 period is the principal modern conflict. NKAO votes to transfer to Armenian SSR (Feb 1988); Sumgait, Kirovabad, Gugark and Baku pogroms drive both populations into homogenisation; Operation Ring, the war in Karabakh, the seven occupied districts, Khojaly, Maraga, the Bishkek ceasefire of 1994. By the end, NKAO is wholly Armenian, the surrounding seven Azerbaijani districts are wholly Armenian-occupied, the residual Azerbaijani population of Armenia and Armenian population of Azerbaijan outside Karabakh have left.