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NKR PARLIAMENTARY FACTIONS ASK INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO INVESTIGATE JANUARY 1990 BAKU MASSACRES AGAINST ARMENIANS
Tert.am
17:53 ~U 20.01.10
On January 19, the NKR National Assembly parliamentary factions
"Democracy," "Motherland," and "ARFD-Movement-88," in particular,
issued a statement related to the January 1990 Armenian massacres
in Baku.
The statement, in full, reads:
"Twenty years ago, a massacre of the Armenian population was
organized and coolly implemented at a state level in the capital
city of then-Soviet Azerbaijan - Baku. Thousands of innocent people
were killed with extreme brutality, and tens of thousands of people,
suffering from heavy physical wounds and moral shock, were deported
and deprived of their homeland.
"In fact, the January massacres in Baku became the finale of
the violations and deportations committed towards the native
and state-making Armenian population of Eastern Transcaucasia in
1905-1906, 1918-1920, and 1988-1990. It was the specific response of
the Azerbaijani authorities to the peaceful, just, and legal right
of the Nagorno-Karabakh people to life in their homeland, which took
place with the consent of the USSR authorities.
"We, the representatives of the political forces of the National
Assembly of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, condemn once again the
violations committed towards Armenians in Azerbaijan during the entire
20th century, as a result of which the native Armenian population
was deprived of its inalienable right to state self-organization,
in particular, in Baku, to assess the massacres, which started on
January 13, 1990, as:
-mass violation of human rights and freedoms, first of all, and the
right to life;
-evident demonstration of the Azerbaijani state policy of xenophobia,
national intolerance, and ethnic cleansing;
-the heaviest crime committed against humanity at a state level -
Genocide, the responsibility for which, according to the international
law, has no time limitation.
"The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic will seek the legal assessment of
the violations, deportations and ethnic cleansing implemented in
Azerbaijan and the punishment of the organizers, regardless of their
current political and public position and residence.
"To demonstrate this legal and just intention, we call upon the UN,
EU, OSCE, and member-states of the OSCE Minsk Group:
-to hold an impartial investigation of the violations committed towards
the Armenian population in Baku between January 13 and January 20
and give the legal assessment to the actions of the organizers and
executors of the crime;
-not to equate the crimes organized on the state level in peaceful
conditions with the privations, which the region's peoples suffered
due to the war unleashed by Azerbaijan.
"To avoid further undesirable developments, we demand to condemn
and use corresponding penalties towards the criminal state. This is
not only the right of the victim, but also the duty of international
structures, as Genocide is a crime against humanity.
Tert.am
17:53 ~U 20.01.10
On January 19, the NKR National Assembly parliamentary factions
"Democracy," "Motherland," and "ARFD-Movement-88," in particular,
issued a statement related to the January 1990 Armenian massacres
in Baku.
The statement, in full, reads:
"Twenty years ago, a massacre of the Armenian population was
organized and coolly implemented at a state level in the capital
city of then-Soviet Azerbaijan - Baku. Thousands of innocent people
were killed with extreme brutality, and tens of thousands of people,
suffering from heavy physical wounds and moral shock, were deported
and deprived of their homeland.
"In fact, the January massacres in Baku became the finale of
the violations and deportations committed towards the native
and state-making Armenian population of Eastern Transcaucasia in
1905-1906, 1918-1920, and 1988-1990. It was the specific response of
the Azerbaijani authorities to the peaceful, just, and legal right
of the Nagorno-Karabakh people to life in their homeland, which took
place with the consent of the USSR authorities.
"We, the representatives of the political forces of the National
Assembly of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, condemn once again the
violations committed towards Armenians in Azerbaijan during the entire
20th century, as a result of which the native Armenian population
was deprived of its inalienable right to state self-organization,
in particular, in Baku, to assess the massacres, which started on
January 13, 1990, as:
-mass violation of human rights and freedoms, first of all, and the
right to life;
-evident demonstration of the Azerbaijani state policy of xenophobia,
national intolerance, and ethnic cleansing;
-the heaviest crime committed against humanity at a state level -
Genocide, the responsibility for which, according to the international
law, has no time limitation.
"The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic will seek the legal assessment of
the violations, deportations and ethnic cleansing implemented in
Azerbaijan and the punishment of the organizers, regardless of their
current political and public position and residence.
"To demonstrate this legal and just intention, we call upon the UN,
EU, OSCE, and member-states of the OSCE Minsk Group:
-to hold an impartial investigation of the violations committed towards
the Armenian population in Baku between January 13 and January 20
and give the legal assessment to the actions of the organizers and
executors of the crime;
-not to equate the crimes organized on the state level in peaceful
conditions with the privations, which the region's peoples suffered
due to the war unleashed by Azerbaijan.
"To avoid further undesirable developments, we demand to condemn
and use corresponding penalties towards the criminal state. This is
not only the right of the victim, but also the duty of international
structures, as Genocide is a crime against humanity.