NOT ACCIDENTALLY IS BAKU CALLED CITY OF 3 POGROMS
Aysor
Jan 14 2010
Armenia
It’s not accidental that Baku is called City of 3 pogroms as 20
years ago on January 13-19 in 1990 the massacres of Armenians were
being realized there in Baku. Larisa Alaverdyan, the secretary of the
Heritage fraction of National Assembly spoke about the Baku pogroms,
its consequences, legal and political estimations, as well as about
the steps that Armenian is tend to undertake. The deputy is sure
that the Armenian society even the active part of it is not enough
informed about the pogroms of Baku which speaks about fruitless
passive situation.
According to L. Alaverdyan this passivism is not only the fault of the
governmental and political bodies but also the public organizations
and especially the journalists who "can provide the society with
much more information". The deputy thinks it is dangerous that for
many years the information about the 1990’s events taken place in
Baku has not been introduced duly. Today, according to her, when we
try to recall the 1990s especially for regarding the memory of the
victims the society can think that this was a unique case, while this
type of events were being realized in 1905 – 1907, in 1918 and also
during the Soviet times till 1988 – 1992 and it’s not casual that
Baku is called a city of massacres.
Making a historical review the deputy assured that since 1905 it were
the Caucasian Tatars who realized violence against the Armenians. They
at once accepted the ideology of Pan Turkism and became the one who
realized that ideology.
"It’s not accidental that the events taken place at the end of the
century are called the continuation of the same Turkish genocide
realized against the Armenians, because it is the same ideology,
the same policy, the same aims and the same people who realize it", –
stressed L. Alaverdyan and added that the Karabakh conflict started
because of this "years lasting obvious discrimination and violence
against the Armenians in Azerbaijan, the people protested and wished
to join Armenia."
Instead, L. Alaverdyan says, in 1988 on February 21 the Armenians
were massacred by the Azerbaijanis. Regardless this fact, "Azerbaijan
cynically falsified both the events and the facts and the issues
concerning Karabakh."
L. Alaverdyan is sure that Armenia and the international society should
recollect the facts taken place in Baku in 1990 and in Azerbaijan
during different periods of its history and recognize them as
genocide. For this there are enough facts.
"It is also provable that whatever took place in1990 is a genocide
and corresponds with the international term Genocide, and today as
well Azerbaijan’s policy corresponds that term", – the speaker said.
"If a country that has realized genocide is not punished and is
not accepting its fault it means only one thing, that our region is
endangered", – said L. Alaverdyan concluding the interview.