Azerbaijani People Honor Blessed Memory Of Victims Of January 20 Tragedy (PHOTO)
Date
1/21/2023 12:38:55 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 20. The
33rd anniversary of the January 20 tragedy is marked today,
trend reports.
The Azerbaijani people honor the blessed memory of the
victims of the January 20 tragedy.
Azerbaijani Prime Minister Ali Asadov, Chairperson of
Azerbaijan's Milli Majlis (Parliament) Sahiba Gafarova, Head of the
Presidential Administration Samir Nuriyev, and other officials
visited the Alley of Martyrs, laid flowers at the graves of the
heroic sons of the Motherland and revered their memory on the
National Mourning Day.
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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