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Bloody Anniversary: Baku pogroms 20 years ago January 13

Twenty years ago today, January 13, the slaughter of Armenians in Baku started and continued for a week before it was stopped by Soviet troops brought into the city.

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14.01.2010 02:25
This is what you get for living in enemy territory and working for the turk. Armenians who married turkic mongols are not Armenian anymore. Thos slant eyed vermin are our genetic gift to turks.
5
13.01.2010 07:12
In my country, Romania, 20 years ago many people died for freedom
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13.01.2010 06:32
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom_of_Armenians_in_Baku
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13.01.2010 05:02
Incidentally, there believed to be 20,000 ethnic Armenians in Baku, although mainly the Armenian wives of Azeri husbands and their children.
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13.01.2010 05:02
I do not understand why the Armenian side does not bring forward these events as a way of legitimizing Nagorno Karabakhs declaration of independence. Azerbaijan keeps reffering to the international law. The international law says that if a people to whom a territory of a state also belongs, are not represented in the government of that state, they do not have to respect the territorial integrity of the state. Secession would be permitted in this case. Also if the fundamental rights of the group and especially of the members of the group are harmed, or if a people is oppressed, they will gain the right to secede. A people begins to exist when they it becomes conscious of its identity and claims its right to exist as a people. This is the case with the Artsakh people of Nagorno Karabakh.
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13.01.2010 05:00
Actually. figures vary, but it is generally considered correct to say at least 48-66 people were killed. Either way, a tragic event which followed a pogrom in Sumgait as well as anti-Azeri violence in Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia (although with only 2 dead). Also worth noting that the Soviet army was highlighted by Human Rights Watch, as well as others, for blame. In fact, it alleges that the incursion was planned days before the Baku pogrom although, paradoxically, they delayed intervention. In fact, Human Rights Watch went as far as saying that the intervention was staged by Moscow not to protect Armenians but to try to destroy the pro-independence movement in Azerbaijan. Most of Baku's Armenian community, for example, had already left by the time the Soviet army moved in. When they did, 130 Azeris were killed, and hence why few think the Soviets moved in to help Armenians. Especially as most were not there.
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