"AN ORDINARY GENOCIDE: BAKU, JANUARY 1990" DOCUMENTARY SCREENED IN YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.01.2010 17:01 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Ordinary Genocide: Baku, January 1990" documentary
was screened in Yerevan on Tuesday.

Ordinary Genocide film series was launched by the public relations
and information department at the RA presidential administration with
a purpose to provide true information on 1988-92 developments which
resulted in the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Nagorno
Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

Featuring the true story of the Armenian genocide in Azerbaijan, this
film doesn’t aim to instill hatred for Azeris, said Marina Grigoryan,
the film author.

At the end of the current week, the documentary will be screened by
Armenian Public Television.

In January 1990, Azerbaijani authorities instigated the Armenian
pogroms in Baku. Some 400 Armenians were killed and 200 thousand
were exiled in the period of January 13-19, 1990. The exact number
of those killed was never determined, as no investigation was carried
out into the crimes.

On January 13, 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.