Tabriz-based www.anaj.ir website posts article on Black January
Tehran, January 20 (AZERTAC). Tabriz-based www.anaj.ir website has posted an article commemorating the 24th anniversary of the Black January tragedy.
The article says the massacre of innocent Azerbaijanis committed on January 20, 1990 was a result of biased policy of Mikhail Gorbachev against the people of Azerbaijan.
The article says Armenia`s separatism and territorial claims against Azerbaijan were one of the major causes of the January tragedy.
“In 1988, hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis were ousted from Armenia. Armenians living in Karabakh started killing Azerbaijanis and expelling them from their homelands.”
The article says the Soviet forces entered Baku, without declaring a state of emergency, and committed atrocities against the innocent Azerbaijani people. The invasion was launched at midnight and was committed with brutality, and even children, women and the elderly were not spared, the article notes.
The article says the Black January went down in Azerbaijan`s history as a heroic page of the nation`s struggle for its independence.
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