KARABAKH MOVEMENT COUNTS 21 YEARS

PanARMENIAN.Net
20.02.2009 12:54 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 21 years have passed since the beginning of Karabakh
Movement. On 20 February 1988, the Council of People’s Deputies of the
Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast addressed to the Supreme Soviets of
the USSR, Azerbaijan SSR and Armenian SSR a request for the transfer
of the NKAO from Azerbaijan to Armenia.

The Azeri authorities responded to the request with massacres and
pogroms of Armenians in Sumgait, Kirovabad and Baku and operation Ring,
which drove a half-million Armenian community out of its native land.

The people of Nagorno Karabakh showed resistance to the Azeri
aggression, resulting in NKR Independence declaration on Sep. 2, 1990.