Beginning in mid-1918, #Armenian paramilitary forces led by General Andranik played a major role in the destruction of Muslim settlements in Zangazur and the ethnic cleansing of the region.The British command,which had its own political goals,did not allow +

Andranik to expand his activities. Andranik brought 30,000 Armenian refugees from Eastern Anatolia, mainly from Mus and Bitlis. Some of the #Armenian refugees from Turkey remained in Zangazur, while others settled in the Iravan and Daralagoz regions+

where they replaced the Muslims to ethnically homogenize the main regions of Armenia.
According to the American historian F. Kazemzadeh,referring to the Armenian historian A.Boryan,the Dashnak leadership was established during the Republic of #Armenia not for administrative needs, but for"the deportation of the Muslim population and the seizure of their property."
According to Stalin's policy, in 1948, about 100,000 #Azerbaijanis were deported from the Armenian SSR. Armenian refugees who later came to the Soviet Union lived in those houses.
The deportation of Azerbaijanis from Armenia during the Soviet era and the resettlement of #Armenians living outside the Soviet Union to Armenia, which was approved by Stalinist policies, was a key factor in the decline of the #Azerbaijani population.