OFFICIAL NEWS
PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV UNVEILS BLOODY JANUARY MEMORIAL
Baku, January 20 (AZERTAC). President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today opened a monument to the victims of the Bloody January here.
The Head of State and his spouse Mehriban Aliyeva laid flowers at the memorial.
The construction of the monument designed by Adalet Mammadov and sculpted by Javanshir Dadashov and Azad Aliyev started in October last year.
Carved on the monument are the names of 147 shahids killed during 20 January events and national leader Heydar Aliyev`s words “20 January, 1990 marked one of the most tragic days and a chapter in the heroic history of our people”. The inscription on the pedestal reads: “In commemoration of 20 January shahids”
President Ilham Aliyev met with those who gathered for the opening ceremony and 20 January shahid families.
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