GETASHEN WAS THE BEGINNING OF UNDECLARED WAR
These very days 15 years ago the forced eviction of Armenian population in Getashen (northern Nagorno Karabakh) began. Supported by the Soviet Army, Azerbaijani OMON (Special Purpose Detachment of Militsiya) forced the Armenian population of the region out of their homes. The Armenians were deprived of all possibility for self-defense, and only thanks to a group of martyrs the number of victims did not increase. That was the beginning of genocidal actions, which grew into a bloody war against the freedom-loving people of Karabakh.
On occasion of this anniversary NK parliament factions Democracy and Fatherland and leaders of ARF Movement-88 called a news briefing.
Head of Democracy faction, Vahram Atanesian, stated that the Getashen events were the response of Soviet leadership to Armenia’s refusal to participate in the referendum to decide USSR’s future.
As a response to Soviet Armenia’s April 24 statements on situation in Getashen, Mikhail Gorbachev sealed off this Armenian region banning even sanitarian helicopters to enter Getashen. On May 6, Russian soldiers bundled 4.000 Armenians off to Armenia.
The April 6 visit of Russian general Boris Gromov to the epicenter of ethnic tensions and his meeting with illegal lord of Karabakh, Viktor Polyanichko evidence that eviction was conducted by direct order from Soviet leadership.
On May 15, Azerbaijani authorities made a decision to transport their citizens who had settled in Armenian houses in various Azeri towns to Getashen. This was an unprecedented act of ethnic cleansing in the Soviet history. This notorious Soviet-Azeri campaign named "Koltso" (circle) continued in Shahumian and in Nagorno Karabakh itself.
Presenting the events at large, Vahram Atanesian said that the NK parliament is going to organize hearings on 15th anniversary of tragic events in Getashen and Shahumian. They plan to invite Russian deputies also as still in 1991 a group from Russian parliament arrived in the region and after seeing what had happened they held hearings back home. Shorthand report of the Russian hearings in the State Duma archives will certainly shed light on the events of 1991 confirming the anti-Armenian policy of Azerbaijan in late 20th century.
Head of Fatherland faction, Artur Tovmasian, added that the eviction of Getashen triggered in fact an undeclared war against Nagorno Karabakh.
Armen Sargsian, head of ARF Movement-88, said that though the Getashen events took place under Bolshevik rule, Azerbaijan anti-Armenian policy has not changed with the regime shift, and the lesson of Getashen teaches that we have to rely only on ourselves.
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