Many mysteries remain about the anti-Armenian riots in Baku.

These events led to the Sumgait Pogrom where between February 26, and March 1, the city of Sumgait was subjected to four days of violent anti-Armenian riots during which 32 people were killed.

An Air of Menace The "February events," as the anti-Armenian riots are delicately called here, killed 32 people and lent an air of menace to an ethnic crisis that has not completely abated.

The military converged on Baku one week after anti-Armenian riots in the city, reportedly led by Azerbaijani refugees displaced from villages in Armenia during the last two years of tension between the two republics.

After 32 people were killed in anti-Armenian riots in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait in late February, thousands of ethnic Azerbaijanis and Armenians living in the neighboring republics fled to their native republics.

It was the most serious outburst of ethnic violence in the region since the Jan. 13 anti-Armenian riots and nationalist protests in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, and the takeover of the city by Soviet troops a week later.

The taking of Baku climaxed a week of turmoil that began when deadly anti-Armenian riots broke out in the city on Jan. 13.

On Feb. 27, anti-Armenian riots broke out in Sumgait, a Caspian Sea petrochemical port near Baku.

In February 1988, while the Azerbaijani authorities looked the other way, anti-Armenian riots broke out in the Azerbaijani port of Sumgait, on the Caspian Sea.

In 1988, in the aftermath of the Sumgait pogrom and anti-Armenian riots in the Azerbaijan SSR, 39 Armenian refugees were temporarily resettled from Azerbaijan to Dushanbe.