ARMENIAN POGROMS IN BAKU CONTINUATION OF 1915 GENOCIDE
PanARMENIAN.Net
13.01.2010 15:09 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian pogroms in Baku were the continuation of
1915 Genocide, YSU professor Alexander Manasyan said.
"It was an attempt to exterminate a population which was engaged in
building the Azerbaijan SSR along with Muslims. Armenia and the entire
world should give an adequate assessment of those tragic events,"
he said.
Twenty years ago today the Azerbaijani authorities instigated the
pogroms of Armenian population in Baku. Some 400 Armenians were killed
and 200 thousand were exiled in the period of January 13-19. The exact
number of those killed was never determined, as no investigation was
carried out into the crimes.
On January 13, 1990 a crowd numbering 50 thousand people divided into
groups and started "cleaning" the city of Armenians. On January 17,
the European Parliament called on EU Council of Foreign Ministers
and European Council to protect Armenians and render assistance to
Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. On January 18, a group of U.S. Senators
sent a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev to express concerns over the
violence against the Armenian population in Azerbaijan and called
for unification of Nagorno Karabakh with Armenia.