French Ambassador To Azerbaijan Visits Alley Of Martyrs (PHOTO)
Date
1/19/2023 11:55:22 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 19. French Ambassador
to Azerbaijan Anne Boillon has visited the Alley of Martyrs to
commemorate the victims of the January 20 tragedy, trend reports via the ambassador's Twitter
publication.
'Today, together with my European colleagues, we commemorated
the victims of January 20, 1990, together with many Azerbaijanis
who gathered on the Alley of Martyrs,' the publication says.
On the night of January 19-20, 1990, as a result of military
aggression of the units of the Soviet army and special forces, as
well as contingents of internal troops against Azerbaijan,
civilians, including children, women and elderly were massacred in
the cities of Baku, Sumgayit, Lankaran and Neftchala by order of
the USSR leadership.
As a result of the occupying forces' military aggression 149
civilians were killed, 744 were seriously injured, and 4 people
went missing. The Soviet army sent to the country in order to
forcefully suppress the mass protests of the Azerbaijani people and
the national independence movement started in response to the
discrimination policy of the USSR leadership against the people of
Azerbaijan, the deportation of hundreds of thousands of
Azerbaijanis from their historical lands in the territory of
present-day Armenia, and Armenia's unfounded territorial claims
against Karabakh, committed an unprecedented massacre against the
civilian population grossly violating international law and the
Constitution.
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