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    THE ARMENIAN RESIDENTS OF SHOUSHI WERE DISPLACED 18 YEARS AGO

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    [03:18 pm] 16 May, 2006

    These days, tragic events took place in Shoushi 18 years ago which
    played a significant role in the further escalation and increase of
    the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict: on May 16-17, 1988, the leadership
    of the Azerbaijani SSR via its emissaries and local Azerbaijani
    authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Shoushi region started the
    deportation of the Armenian population of the town of Shoushi.

    These actions which became possible due to the impunity of the Armenian
    pogroms organized the same year in the town of Sumgayit pursued the
    aim to extirpate the Armenian element in Nagorno Karabakh.

    Absence of adequate estimate, first of all, of the USSR leadership
    to these actions which, according to international-legal norms were
    an act of ethnic cleanings, allowed the Azerbaijani SSR authorities
    to realize pogroms and deportation of the Armenian population of
    the republic in 1988-91s (Khanlar, Kutkashen, Vartashen, Shamkhor
    regions, the town of Mingechaur, etc. - November-December of 1988,
    Kirovabad - November 1989, Baku - January 1990, "Kolco" operation -
    April-June 1991) which actually created preconditions for the following
    full-scale aggression against the Nagorno Karabakh Republic.

    The NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs focuses the attention of the
    international community to the fact that the militaristic rhetoric and
    charging of the atmosphere of xenophobia in the Azerbaijani society is
    the continuation of the policy conducted by the Azerbaijani authorities
    and calls to give a worthy evaluation to these events and recognize
    the international-legal responsibility of the Azerbaijani Republic
    for mass violation of the basic rights of the Armenian population of
    the former Azerbaijani SSR and unleashing of aggressive war against
    the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, which will have immense significance
    for strengthening the security and peace in the region and will allow
    to approach the final solution of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict.
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