NKR TO PURSUE GIVING LEGAL ESTIMATION TO ALL ANTI-ARMENIAN ACTS OF VIOLENCE COMMITTED IN AZERBAIJAN
Noyan Tapan
Jan 21, 2010
STEPANAKERT, JANUARY 21, NOYAN TAPAN. NKR National Assembly’s political
forces, the Democracy, Homeland and ARFD-Movement-88 factions,
on January 19, made a statement on the 1990 January massacres of
Armenians in Baku.
The statement read:
"Twenty years ago Armenian population’s mass slaughter was organized
and coolly committed in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan officially
called Soviet at that time. Thousands of innocent people, women,
children and old people were killed with a special cruelty and dozens
of thousands of people receiving grave bodily injuries and mental
shocks were deprived of their homeland and deported from it.
The January slaughters of Baku, in fact, were the last accord
of the acts of violence and deportations committed in 1905-1906,
1918-1920 and 1988-1990 to the Armenian people, a native people
in the East Trans-Caucasus having the right of statehood. It was
the unique response of the Azeri authorities to Nagorno Karabakh
people’s peaceful, fair and legal right of living a deserved life on
its native land, which was committed with the criminal connivance of
the USSR authorities.
We, representatives of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic National
Assembly, once more condemning the anti-Armenian acts of violence
organized during the whole 20th century in Azerbaijan, in consequence
of which the local Armenian population was deprived of the right
of self-organization at the state level, and, in particular, the
slaughters committed in Baku from January 13 1990, estimate them as:
– fact of mass violation of human rights and freedoms, first of all,
right of living,
– obvious manifestation of Azerbaijan’s state policy of xenophobia
and national intolerance, ethnic cleansings,
– the gravest crime committed against mankind at the state level,
Genocide, responsibility for which, according to the international law,
has no limitation period.
The Nagorno Karabakh Republic will pursue giving a legal estimation to
all anti-Armenian acts of violence, deportations and ethnic cleansings
committed in Azerbaijan and calling for liability their organizers
irrespective of their current political and social position or place
of residence.
As a manifestation of that legal and fair goal we apply to the UN,
Council and Europe, OSCE, parliaments of OSCE Minsk Group member
countries:
– to conduct an unbiassed investigation of acts of violence committed
from January 13 to 20 1990 in Baku and to give a legal estimation to
the actions of the organizers and executors of the crime,
– not to put an equals sign between crimes organized at the state
level in peaceful conditions and the privations the regional peoples
suffered in consequence of the war Azerbaijan broke out.
To avoid further undesirable developments we demand condemning and
using punishments to the criminal state. It is not only the right of
the aggrieved party but also the duty of the international instances
as genocide is a crime against mankind."