PanArmenian News
Nov 18 2004

ARMENIAN REFUGEES APPEAL TO UN

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ During the period of 1988-1991 over 200 thousand
Armenians residing in Azerbaijan abandoned their homes. In summer
1991, after “The Ring” operation carried out by the Soviet Army with
the participation of the Azeri special forces the inhabitants of
dozens of the Armenians villages bordering with Nagorno Karabakh were
either deported or killed. Most of the deported people found shelter
in Armenia. However, despite this the problem of the Armenian
refugees is often ignored. On November 17 the Shahumian-Getashen
Benevolent Organization sent letters on behalf of the deported
Armenians of the Shahumian and Getashen regions, occupied by
Azerbaijan at present , to the UN Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan
and President of the UN’s 59-th General Assembly, Mr. Jean Ping. The
letters reaffirm the rights of those who were forcibly removed from
their homes in these and other regions and lost all their
possessions, to defend themselves in the appropriate international
organizations. To remind, the Shahumian region of the NKR is situated
to the North of the territories controlled by the Karabakh forces at
present. It has been occupied by the Azeri troops since summer 1992
with the help of bribed Russian generals . The Getashen region is to
the North of Shahumian; its residents were deported and many killed
after the joint operations of the soviet army and Azeri OMON. It
should be also noted that both regions were always mostly
Armenian-inhabited.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress