The Jakarta Post: Black January in the history of Azerbaijan
Jakarta, January 21, AZERTAC
The Jakarta Post newspaper has posted an article headlined “Black January in the history of Azerbaijan”.
The author noted that using the mixed-up situation in the former Soviet Union in the second half of 1980, Armenian nationalists came to the decision to connect Azerbaijan`s Nagorno-Karabakh region to Armenia, adding head of former USSR Gorbachov supported them to realize their sly plan. Azerbaijanis started to protests those events and demanded the independence to the country.
The author underlined on January 19-20, 1990, troops of former soviet army entered Baku and shot the unarmed people, and stressed the action was contradicted to the constitutions of the Azerbaijan SSR and international treaty on human rights.
The article ends with thoughts that Azerbaijani people will never forget those, who died for the territorial integrity and freedom of the Motherland.
Vugar Aghayev
Special correspondent
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