(MENAFN- AzerNews) The road traffic in Azerbaijan was stopped in the afternoon for
one minute in memory of the victims of the January 20 tragedy,
Azernews reports.
Ships in Baku Bay, cars on the roads, and trains honked in
memory of the victims of the bloody events.
State flags are flown at half-mast as a sign of mourning.
The memory of the martyrs on January 20 was honored at the
Koroglu Transport Exchange Center by a minute of silence. The Baku
Transport Agency stopped the movement of buses, which honked.
On January 20, 1990, 40,000 strong Soviet troops entered the
Azerbaijani capital Baku from several directions, invading the city
in a desperate, brutal, and yet futile attempt to strangle the
growing independence movement and to prevent the fall of the Soviet
communist regime in Azerbaijan and punish ordinary people who had
rallied on the streets to voice their legitimate protest against
the violation of their homeland's territorial integrity.
Some 137 people were killed, 611 were wounded, 841 were
illegally arrested, and five went missing as a result of the
intrusion of troops into Baku and other regions of the country.
January 20, 1990, is marked in the modern history of Azerbaijan
as one of the most tragic days of the country, and at the same time
as a heroic page.
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