2010 MARKS 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN POGROMS IN BAKU
PanARMENIAN.Net
13.01.2010 11:39 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 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, 1900 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.