Azerbaijani FM Shares Post On 33Rd Anniversary Of 20 January Tragedy
Date
1/21/2023 12:38:53 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 20. Azerbaijan's
Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeyhun Bayramov has made a post on the
33rd anniversary of the 20 January tragedy on his twitter account,
trend reports.
'We honor the memory of our heroic martyrs who gave their lives
for the freedom and independence of Azerbaijan. As a result of the
sacrifice of our martyrs, our tricolor flag flies in every corner
of Azerbaijan,' the tweet 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 the 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 was 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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