"MASSACRES IN BAKU AND SUMGAYIT ARE BURIED IN OBLIVION"
Asya Poghosian and her family recall January 13 of 1990 as a "black day". The Armenian massacres in Baku started that day and continued until January 15. During those three days dozens of Armenians were killed, thousands of them became homeless and fled to Armenia and Russia.
Asya Poghosian is a 75-year-old woman. It is already 19 years that she lives in Yerevan having a refugee status.
Politician Alexander Manasian mentions that the massacres in Baku and Sumgayit is the continuation of Turkish policy on the .
"Our demands for recognition of the are restricted in recognition of the genocide in 1915. The aim of Turkey was not its national security but annihilation of the Armenian nation. That is why the massacres continued even after the World War and embraced territories beyond the borders of Turkey. In 1918, Turkish regular troops massacred thousands of Armenians on their way to Baku", Alexander Manasian said at "Urbat" club.
President of the Assembly of the Azerbaijani Armenians Gregori Ayvazian is confident that taking into account the fact of the massacres in Baku it is impossible to see Nagorno Karabakh as a part of Azerbaijan. "The Azerbaijani Armenians were forced to leave their cradle. 418 thousand Armenians of Azerbaijan became refugees; 300 thousand of them live in Armenia today. The Armenian authorities don't use this fact, while the Azerbaijanis don't miss the opportunity to speak of their refugees", he said. The Assembly of the Azerbaijani-Armenians applied to the Museum-Institute of the to define the massacres of Baku scientifically. "The Museum-Institute didn't delay the answer. According to the conclusion of the Museum-Institute, the massacres of Baku correspond to the international resolution on the genocide phenomenon", Gregori Ayvazian added.
Asya Poghosian recalls that the Azerbaijanis, who committed the massacres, clearly knew the houses of the Armenians.
A state of emergency was declared in Baku only in January 19. The same day the Soviet troops broke into the capital of Azerbaijan. Tatul Hakobian, the author of the book "Green and black; Artsakh diary", writes that the Communist authorities of Armenia touched upon the Armenian massacres of Baku a month late on February 13. The Supreme Council considered inexplicable "the fact that in spite of the massacres committed against the Armenian population, the troops entered Baku unforgivably late, when there were already no Armenians because of the ferocity of the extremists". The resolution condemned "the massacres of Armenians in Baku and other provinces of the Soviet Azerbaijan", qualifying them as "continuation of the genocide of the Armenian people".
"The massacres of Baku are not assessed and qualified appropriately by now. Moreover, massacres in Baku and Sumgayit are buried in oblivion", the politician underlined.
- By Arevik Badalian, translated by L.H.
"MASSACRES IN BAKU AND SUMGAYIT ARE BURIED IN OBLIVION"
By Arevik Badalian, translated by L.H.Asya Poghosian and her family recall January 13 of 1990 as a "black day". The Armenian massacres in Baku started that day and continued until January 15. During those three days dozens of Armenians were ...
"MASSACRES IN BAKU AND SUMGAYIT ARE BURIED IN OBLIVION"
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