TODAY IS THE 17TH ANNIVERSARY OF BAKU MASSACRES
Marlena Hovsepyan
"Radiolur"
15.01.2007 17:58
Up until 1988 Nelly Danielyan taught Russian language and literature
in one of Baku schools. Today she chairs the "Union of Refugees and
Farmers" NGO.
For her even remembering the bloody events is Baku is painful. "Men
were being killed in the street. Everywhere there were fires, on
which the property of Armenians was burnt, the homes of Armenians
were robbed," she said.
It may sound unbelievable, but before moving to Yerevan, in Baku
Azerbaijani refugees concealed Mrs. Nelly in her own house. "These
people helped me, they hid me in the bathroom while the "National
front" was breaking our doors.
Azerbaijanis who returned from Yerevan were telling that neighbors were
seeing them off with tears in their eyes. In Baku no one was crying
when Armenians were being killed and robbed," Nelly Ghukasyan says.
Naturally, the refugees received neither moral nor material
reimbursement.
Heading the NGO, Nelly Ghukasyan has sent numerous letters to different
international structures, never receiving any response.
Giving a political assessment to the massacres of Baku, political
scientist Suren Zolyan noted that the tragedy that befell Armenians
should be loudly spoken about, since our neighbor is constantly trying
to distort the events.