European Azerbaijanis Congress issues statement on Black January tragedy
Berlin, January 21 (AZERTAC). The European Azerbaijanis Congress has made a statement in connection with the 23rd anniversary of Black January tragedy.
The statement says: “Every year on this day, the Azerbaijani people commemorate the victims of 20 January tragedy of 1990. Some 66,000 soldiers and officers were sent to Baku ordered the then leader of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev.”
“This terror act was aimed at physical annihilation of the Azerbaijani people. From 19th to 20th January, 1990, without preliminary declaration of the state of emergency, military units of the former Soviet Union stormed Baku and some regions of Azerbaijan.”
The Congress said in the statement: “Armless civilians were massacred by security forces of the former Soviet Union. As a result, 147 civilians were killed, while over 800 wounded. After this tragic event the Azerbaijani people mourned forty days, with the whole country remaining paralyzed for a long time.”
“On October 18, 1991 a Constitutional Act `On restoration of the state independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan` was adopted and Azerbaijan ensured its independence,” the statement said.
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