Operation Ring ( Operatsia Koltso; Oghak gortsoğut'yun, meaning Chaykend operation) was the codename for the May 1991 military operation conducted by Soviet Internal Security Forces and OMON units in the northern regions (Shahumyan, Shusha, Martakert and Hadrut) of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Azerbaijan SSR and in a number of bordering regions of the Armenian SSR (Noyemberyan, Goris and Tavush). Officially dubbed a "passport checking operation," the ostensible goal launched by the Soviet Union's internal and defense ministries was to disarm Armenian militia detachments that had been organized in "[illegally] armed formations." The operation involved the use of ground troops who accompanied a complement of military vehicles, artillery and helicopter gunships to be used to root
| Attributes | Values |
|---|
| rdf:type
| |
| rdfs:label
| |
| rdfs:comment
| - Operation Ring ( Operatsia Koltso; Oghak gortsoğut'yun, meaning Chaykend operation) was the codename for the May 1991 military operation conducted by Soviet Internal Security Forces and OMON units in the northern regions (Shahumyan, Shusha, Martakert and Hadrut) of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Azerbaijan SSR and in a number of bordering regions of the Armenian SSR (Noyemberyan, Goris and Tavush). Officially dubbed a "passport checking operation," the ostensible goal launched by the Soviet Union's internal and defense ministries was to disarm Armenian militia detachments that had been organized in "[illegally] armed formations." The operation involved the use of ground troops who accompanied a complement of military vehicles, artillery and helicopter gunships to be used to root
|
| sameAs
| |
| Strength
| |
| dcterms:subject
| |
| dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
| |
| Casus
| - Disarmament of armed militia units in the regions of Shahumyan and Nagorno-Karabakh
|
| Partof
| |
| Date
| |
| Commander
| |
| Casualties
| - Unknown
- Unknown; civilian deaths, including ethnic Armenian police force, estimated to be 30–50
|
| Result
| - Deportation of thousands of Armenians from the region
|
| combatant
| - 23(xsd:integer)
- Armenian militiamen/volunteers
*Dashnaktsutyun
- AzSSR OMON
|
| Place
| - Noyemberyan, Goris and Tavush regions of the Armenian SSR.
- Shahumyan, Shusha, Martakert and Hadrut regions of Nagorno-Karabakh;
|
| Conflict
| |
| abstract
| - Operation Ring ( Operatsia Koltso; Oghak gortsoğut'yun, meaning Chaykend operation) was the codename for the May 1991 military operation conducted by Soviet Internal Security Forces and OMON units in the northern regions (Shahumyan, Shusha, Martakert and Hadrut) of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Azerbaijan SSR and in a number of bordering regions of the Armenian SSR (Noyemberyan, Goris and Tavush). Officially dubbed a "passport checking operation," the ostensible goal launched by the Soviet Union's internal and defense ministries was to disarm Armenian militia detachments that had been organized in "[illegally] armed formations." The operation involved the use of ground troops who accompanied a complement of military vehicles, artillery and helicopter gunships to be used to root out the self-described Armenian fedayeen. However, contrary to their stated objectives, Soviet troops and the predominantly Azerbaijani soldiers in the AzSSR OMON and army forcibly uprooted Armenians living in the twenty-four villages strewn across Shahumyan to leave their homes and settle elsewhere in Nagorno-Karabakh or in the neighboring Armenian SSR. British journalist Thomas de Waal has described Ring as the Soviet Union's first and only civil war. Some authors have also described the actions of the joint Soviet and Azerbaijani force as ethnic cleansing. The military operation was accompanied by systematic and gross human rights abuses.
|
| is Battles
of | |
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)