Like in previous years Armenians launched a special campaign on the January events of 1990.
As usual, this issue is viewed from the Armenian viewpoint, whose authors are low interested in whether their theses and facts meet the reality or not.
One of such materials became the ‘bitter work’ of Armenian expert Ivan Garibyan, who copy and pasted the main false clichés of Armenian agitation regarding the January events, adding some of his exclusive inventions and issuing his ‘wonder’-opus.
According to Garibyan, on 13 January 1990, after the ‘next meeting of national-fascist Popular Front of Azerbaijan, some thousands of brutal ‘people’ started to smash up the flats of aboriginal Armenian residents of the city… by the earlier prepared plan-by the lists of Armenian citizens hanged out in front of the head office of the Popular Front’. How did Garibyan know that there was a list of Armenian residents of Baku, which was hanged out in front of the Popular Front? Or did Garibyan, like Eduard Grigoryan (the main initiator and participant of the Sumgayir events in February 1988, who personally murdered and raped several Armenians) also take part in the January events in Baku and see the ‘list’ with his own eyes? Then Garibyan makes one more mistake, ‘forgetting’ to indicate that those whom he call ‘brutal people’ were mostly Azerbaijani refugees, forced to flee their homes in Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast in 1987-1989. On the eyes of these people Armenian nationals murdered their relatives, children, burnt down and buried people alive, cut their heads, locked them in chimneys.
One of those who survived and witnessed the deportation of Azerbaijanis from Armenia, Sanubar Sarally, spoke in details about what she saw in her book “The Stolen History: Genocide”.
“We tried to describe the mass murders of Azerbaijanis in Armenia, about cases of violence and vandalism. There are numerous facts of this kind. Here is one of them. Little children were locked in a chimney in Khamalli region. After the earthquake (On 7 December 1989-the Spitak earthquake-ed.) they were found by French rescuers, who left Armenia immediately after.
And it is interesting that the USSR General Prosecution knew about these atrocities. Answering the question from former resident, teacher of Noyemberyan resident Sharif Mansurov about 30 locked children, deputy general prosecutor of USSR, Andreyev said: “The number of Azerbaijani children was 23 not 30” As if the figure changes the point of inhumane cruelty of Armenian vandalism”, Sarally said.
In period of 1987-1989, about 200,000 Azerbaijanis, 18,000 Muslims Kurds, thousands of Russians were forcedly deported from Armenia. 255 Azerbaijanis were killed: two were beheaded, 11 were burnt alive, 3 were cut in pieces, 23 were run over, 41 were beaten to death, 19 went frozen in mountains, 8 went missing and so on. Also, 57 women were also killed alive along with 23 children who locked in chimneys alive.
Tens of thousands of residents in Azerbaijani villages of Armenia, in particular, Ararat region, run away to the Soviet-Turkish border in summer 1988 being unable to bear pogroms, murders and violence of Armenian nationalists and lived in the open air on the frontier Araz river for four months. Moreover, the Armenian leadership did not do anything to help this people, but as it became clear later, the attacks against Azerbaijani villages were headed not only by the leaders of the region, but also by some responsible officials of the country, in particular, former deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers Arutyunyan, chairman of the Masis regional executive committee Gevorkyan and head of the regional department of interior affairs Iskandaryan.
In November-December 1989, the Armenian SSR widely marked the deportation of last Azerbaijanis, organized and conducted with direct participation of the party leadership of the republic under the slogan “Armenia without Turks”. The mass deportation of Azerbaijan was organized by first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia Suren Arutyunyan. This was the Dashnak, who organized student manifestations in Yerevan in 1965 in connection with the 50th anniversary of Armenian genocide.
On 4 November 1988 at the meeting in Yerevan one of the activists of the Karabakh committee Rafael Kazaryan (currently, academician of the Academy of Science of Armenia) openly urged ‘to ensure emigration by the help of divisions, created in advance. ‘For the first time through these decades we have a unique opportunity to clean Armenia from these Turks. I think this is the biggest achievement of our struggle through these ten months”, Kazaryan told a meeting with participation of representatives of the party leadership and law enforcement bodies of Armenia (‘Armenia: twenty months of struggle’. Collection of documents. Samizdat. Yerevan, 1989, p.15).
In this connection, there was even the resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and USSR Ministers Council of 6 December 1988, according to which it was ordered to punish ‘separate officials of local party, Soviet and economic bodies’. However, this regulation was fully ignored in Armenia and no one was punished, especially, that the union center did not control the situation. That is the Armenian leadership forced 200,000 Azerbaijanis to leave the country under support and silence of the union leadership by the end of 1989.
At least Armenian agitation campaign and its ‘servants’ like Ivan Garibyan must recognize the indicated facts of the forced deportation of Azerbaijanis from Armenia and then NKAO and that they involved the leadership of the Armenian SSR. Only after this Armenian side recognizes all this, it will have a right to judge about the reasons and implications of January events in Baku. However, Garibyan and his pals have the order from ‘above’ to continue misleading about ‘Armenian pogroms’ forgetting the murder of about 255 Azerbaijanis from infants to elderly people throughout Armenia.
But if the Armenian agitation wishes to turn a blind eye on this issue, this does not mean the world community does not know about the real causes of the Armenian-Azerbaijani confrontation and January events of 1990 in Baku. Anyway, the Azerbaijani side will further take all efforts to respond to the authors of the lie in Armenian mass media.
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