PASHAYEV: WHY SOVIET ARCHIVES OVER BAKU MASSACRES CLOSED BY NOW?
Panorama.am
15:25 13/01/2010
20 years ago massacres were carried out in Azerbaijan’s capital January
13-19, killing or forcefully evacuating 5 thousand Armenians residing
in Baku. A number of NGOs are dealing with the issues of the destiny
and restoration of the rights of the refugees, those who managed to
flee during the terrible events.
We want compensation in the view of restoration of the rights,
the President of "Return to Hayk" NGO Robert Melik-Pashayev told
Panorama.am.
"No one at the moment is willing to return to Baku. We need a
compensation for the mobile and real estate we have left there,"
he urged.
We have to act, though, it’s hard to make calculations. It’s difficult
to say how much the compensation counts, nevertheless, it’s more than
vivid that a hundred thousands of houses have been confiscated.
"We raise the 1915 Armenian Genocide, but we do not demand to raise
Baku massacres, which actually come to be a continuation to the
Genocide. The papers wrote then how many people have been killed here
or there, though by now it’s not been revealed yet how many people
were killed during Baku genocide. The Soviet archives are closed
for this topic. Who do they conceal the information from and why?",
Robert Melik-Pashayev said.