GEORGIAN DIOCESE OF ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH COMMEMORATE VICTIMS OF ARMENIAN POGROMS IN BAKU.
PanARMENIAN.Net
18.01.2010 18:12 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On January 17 the Armenian Church of St. Echmiadzin
in Tbilisi and all the churches of the Georgian Diocese of the Armenian
Apostolic Church (AAC) served the liturgy and requiem for the victims
of the Armenian pogroms in Baku in 1990.
Leader of the Georgian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church Bishop
Vazgen Mirzakhanian served requiem the Armenian Church of St.
Echmiadzin in Tbilisi.
As press office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia
reported, the service was attended by the Ambassador of Armenia to
Georgia Silvanyan Hrach, leader of the Gegharkunik Diocese of AAC,
Bishop Marcos Hovhannisyan, locum tenens of the leader of the Georgian
Diocese of Javakhk monk Babken Salibyan, representatives of Armenian
organizations in Georgia, as well as numerous believers.
After the service, participants laid a wreath at the cross stone in
memory of victims of the Armenian pogroms in Baku.
On January 13, 1990, the Azerbaijani authorities instigated the
Armenian pogroms of 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 the above-mentioned date, 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.