AMERICA’S AZERBAIJAN ASSOCIATION CALLS NOT TO FORGET BLOODY JANUARY
The humanity should not forget on what human loss was gained today’s independence of Azerbaijan, the statement says. The people took out to the Baku streets in 1990 to protest the Armenian aggression and indifference of the then soviet leadership to the ousted 200 thousands Azerbaijanis from their homes in Armenia. Former USSR leader Mikhail Gorbacev ordered on this massacre to suppress the raising people. In January 1990, the soviet troops attacked to Baku and brutally killed over hundred innocent people. Number of wounded was over 700. But this only strengthened the wish of freedom in the hearts of millions. In a year, Azerbaijan gained state independence.
On the eve of the 14th anniversary of the Bloody January, on 1 February, the American Azerbaijan Association will hold a ceremony where will be commemorated the memory of Heydar Aliyev and will condemn the act of the then soviet leadership. The ceremony will be attended by eyewitnesses of the January events, the American journalist Thomas Golts, head of the state committee on work with Azerbaijani living abroad Nazim Ibrahimov and others.
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