Victims of Black January tragedy honored in PoliMedia University, Indonesia
Baku, January 19 (AZERTAC). The Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Indonesia and Republic of the Philippines Ibragim Hajiyev has made a presentation dedicated to the Black January. The Ambassador, speaking in the University PoliMedia in Indonesia, stressed that late at night on January 19, 1990, Soviet troops entered Baku smashing through the barricades. Up to 700 civilians were injured and 130 were killed, thousands went missing as a result of the Soviet invasion.
Black January also known as the January Massacre was a violent crackdown of the Azerbaijani independence movement in Baku on January 19-20, 1990, pursuant to a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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