In December 18, 1997 Heydar Aliyev, Azerbaijan Republic President signed special decree of “Azerbaijanis mass deportation from their historical-ethnical lands of Armenia SSR within 1948-1953”. Let’s trace back stages of Azerbaijanis deportation, eviction and genocide in historical succession.
The replacement of Azerbaijani toponymes by Armenian one (in 213 villages and districts) and other kinds of pressures against the Azerbaijanis in Western Azerbaijan, the area of now days Republic of Armenia, being implemented to change demografic structure since the establishment of the Armenian SSR (in 1920-30) reached its apogee in 1988.