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Soviet tanks in the streets of Baku, Azerbaijan in January 1990
On January 20, 2021, we honor the 31st anniversary of what is known as “Black January’’, a day when over 26,000 Soviet troops stormed Azerbaijan’s capital city of Baku and committed a brutal massacre upon the civilian population, killing and wounding hundreds of men, women, children and the elderly, Nasimi Aghayev, a Consul General of Azerbaijan to the Western US, writes in the article
Black January was preceded by a series of events with tragic repercussions for Azerbaijan and the region. In 1987, anti-Azerbaijani pogroms broke out in Armenia. Armenian mobs, supported by officials in Yerevan, attacked Azerbaijani-populated villages, killing hundreds of innocent civilians. Their designs of turning Armenia into an “Azerbaijani-free” country were soon realized, as over 250,000 Azerbaijanis, the country’s largest ethnic minority, who had lived in Armenia for millennia, were forced to flee their
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