4,400 km2 Population (1989): 190. 000

27 February, 1988 - This led to violent attacks by Azerbaijanis on Armenians in Sumgait in front of police and Soviet
troops where 26 Armenians and 6 Azerbaijani were killed.

• Sumgait and Baku events were actually planned by Russian Intelligent agencies as later USSR KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov admitted.

• The KGB obviously organised acts of provocation within local conflicts across the Soviet Union to weaken the Gorbachev Administration.

The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Legal Analysis
By Heiko Krüger

Anti-constitutional decision

• 1988 July 12 - The Session of People's Deputies of the Regional Soviet in NKAR adopted an anti- constitutional decision on separation from the Azerbaijani SSR.
• Under Article 78 of the USSR Constitution, the territory of a Union republic could not be altered without its consent. The borders between Union republics could be altered by mutual agreement of the republics concerned, subject to approval by the USSR.

As a result of military aggression of Armenian armed forces, 20% of Azerbaijani lands, that is in 1988-1992, 4400 sq km territory of Nagorno-Karabakh
(Shusha, Khankandi, Khojali, Asgaran, Khojavand, Agdara, Hadrut) and 7 adjacent regions

Region	occupation date	Territory
Lachin region:	May 18, 1992,	1875 sq km.,
Kelbajar region:	April 2, 1993,	1936 sq km.,
Agdam region:	July 23, 1993,	1154 sq km.,
Jabrail region:	August 23, 1993,	1050 sq km.,
Fizuli region:	August 23, 1993,	1112 sq km.,
Gubadli region:	August 31, 1993,	826 sq km.,
Zangilan region:	October 30, 1993,	707 sq km.,

1 million Azerbaijanis became refugees and internally displaced persons.
Overall damage to Azerbaijan side was 6 bln US dollars.
30.000 were killed, 5.000 Armenian and
25.000 Azerbaijani……