Eziz hemvetenler, deyerli dostlar!
Sovet imperiyasinin 1990-ci ilde Bakida toretdiyi qanli qirginin 16-ci
ildonumudur. 130-dan cox soydaşimizin şehid oldugu, 700 neferden cox
soydaşimizin elil oldugu, milyonlarla manat deyerinde dovlet ve ictimai emlakin
mehv edildiyi bu qanli terrora qarşi guclu umumxalq muqavimetini teşkil etmek
evezine bezi «soydaşlarimiz» Moskvaya vezife almaga getdiler, bezileri ise bu
hadiselerde bir-birini gunahlandirmaqla daha cox siyasi xal qazanmaga
calişdilar.
En dehşetlisi ise odur ki, indiyedek bu facienin gunahkarlarindan bir nefer de
cinayet mesuliyetine celb edilmeyib.
Hec olmasa, bu hadise haqqinda esil heqiqeti dunya ictimaiyyetine vaxtinda
catdira bilseydik, belke de 366-ci polkun timsalinda rus ordusu daha dehşetli
Xocali faciesini toretmeye cesaret etmezdi...
Menfur duşmenlerimiz 90 il otmesine baxmayaraq hele de qondarma ermeni soyqirimi
barede vay-şiven qopararaq dunya ictimaiyyetini caşdirirlar. Hetta bir neca olke
resmen bu hadiseleri soyqirim kimi tanimişdir. Biz ise oz derdimizi demeye
nedense cekinirik. Tekce XX esrde Azərbaycanin başina getirilenleri dunyaya yaya
bilseydik, bu gun dunyanin supergucleri, soz sahibleri Qarabag meselesinde
Azərbaycani guzeşte getmeye mecbur etmezdiler, en azi ona gore ki, oz
olkelerinin humanist insanlarinin tezyiqlerinden ehtiyat edardiler…
Eziz soydaşlar!
Azərbaycanin Belcikadaki Sefirliyinin Birinci Katibi Dr. Fuad Humbatov
cenablarinin 20 Yanvar qirgini ile bagli ingilis dilinde hazirladigi qisa icmali
sizlere gonderirem ve cox xahiş edirem ki, bu materiali tanidiginiz xarici
vetendaşlara, xarici olkelerin media, dovlet ve qeyri hokumet teşkilatlarina,
siyasi partiyalarina, deputatlarina, ictimai ve siyasi xadimlerine, beynalxalq
teşkilatlara oz adinizdan, temsil etdiyiniz qurumlarin adindan gonderesiniz.
Hemcinin, dost-tanişlariniza da bu materiali yaymalarini tovsiyye etmeyinizi
xahiş edirem.
Yuzlerle gunahsiz insanin qani yerde qalmamalidir! Her birimiz bunun ucun
elimizden geleni, gucumuz catani etmeliyik. 1990-ci ilde indiki texniki imkanlar
(internet, mobil rabite...) olsaydi, sovet imperiyasi heqiqeti gizlede
bilmeyecekdi. Hec olmasa, internetin gucu ile Azərbaycan heqiqetlerinin dunyaya
catdirilmasina calişaq!
Hormetle, Feyruz Şivakhanov
THE BLACK JANUARY: 16TH ANNIVERSARY OF SOVIET INVASION OF BAKY
On 20 January 1990 the Central Soviet Authorities perpetrated an atrocious crime
against Azerbaijani people. On that day the Soviet Army stormed Baky – capital
of Azerbaijan to puniş people rallied on the streets protesting against
violations of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Special Soviet troops
using heavy offensive weapons, including tanks and armored vehicles, occupied a
city. As a result of punitive actions more than 130 civilians were killed and
700 wounded, hundreds of people were arrested and subjected to various forms of
physical pressure. Among victims were a 7-year old boy, a 16-year old girl, an
80-year old man, a young doctor şot in ambulance while helping another victim,
and many other civilians of different nationalities of Baky. This massacre
entered the history of Azerbaijan as the ‘Black January’.
The strong indignation and protest of the people of Azerbaijan was caused by the
prejudiced and biased policy of the Communist Party and the Government of the
Soviet Union towards the people of Azerbaijan. Soviet authorities’ connivance at
the Armenian expansionists, who claimed a part of the territory of Azerbaijan,
compelled the people of Azerbaijan to defend the territorial integrity of their
country. Such a policy of the Soviet leaders led also to the expulsion in
1988-1989 of 200.000 of Azerbaijanis from Armenia. Not a single Soviet mass
media entity touched upon this crime and the tragedy of the Azerbaijanis in
Armenia passed over in silence.
Bloody events of the period from 1988 to 1990 and the tragedy of the Black
January uşered in a new tragic chapter in the policy of mass persecution and
ethnic cleansing against Azerbaijanis, which had been executed primarily in
Armenia, and in Azerbaijan itself by Armenian nationalists, daşnaks and their
patrons from the Soviet Communist leaderşip at the beginning of the last
century. People took into the streets to voice their legitimate protest against
violations of the territorial integrity of their homeland by Armenia that was
openly supported by the then soviet leaderşip, namely Michael Gorbachov and his
close political and economical advisers of Armenian nationality like Aganbegyan,
Şaghnazarov, Tsitaryan and etc.
In the fall of 1989, the independence movement in Azerbaijan had reached an
incredible momentum with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating for the
ideals of freedom, independence and sovereignty. New democratic forces were
clearly in control of political agenda and stood poised to win the upcoming
parliamentary elections in March 1990. Clearly, the Soviet Army descended on
Baky simply because the Kremlin was determined “to restore order” and return the
status-quo – to keep the regime of the Soviet Empire alive in Azerbaijan and
anywhere else within the boundaries of the former Soviet Union.
The twenty six thousand strong Soviet troops stormed the capital of Azerbaijan –
city of Baky, center of the Azerbaijani national independence movement – on the
night from 19 to 20 January 1990 in a desperate, brutal and yet futile attempt
to strangle that national movement and stop the demise of the Soviet regime in
Azerbaijan and to put the legitimately claiming people under the illegitimate
soviet disorder of the time.
The invasion was launched at the midnight and committed with ferocity and no
mercy for children, women and elderly. Helsinki Human Rights Watch has
documented how the Soviet army intentionally ran down and craşed unarmed
peaceful civilians under their tanks. How they opened fire at a civilian bus
that posed no conceivable physical threat, killing the driver and many
passengers. How they attacked hospitals and clearly marked ambulances and
medical personnel assisting the wounded. How they randomly sprayed residential
yards and apartment buildings with automatic fire. Finally, how they stabbed
defenseless civilians to death with bayonets. The Wall Street Journal editorial
of January 4, 1995, stated:
"It was Mr. Gorbachev's recall, who in January 1990 chose to defend his use of
violence against the independence-seeking Azerbaijan on the grounds that the
people of this then-Soviet republic were “heavily armed gangs of hooligans and
drug-traffickers who were destabilizing the country and quite possibly receiving
support from foreign governments."
Black January has become the turning point in the history of modern Azerbaijan.
On January 20, 1990 Azerbaijanis acquired their national identity. The Soviet
invasion failed to achieve its aim. The Azerbaijani people confronted the
tragedy with strength and dignity. Every bullet that was fired splattered blood
across the face of the Soviet regime, undermining the ideals of communism and
totalitarianism. Those tanks, armored vehicles, automatic rifles and bullets
were supposed to have scared the nation into giving up its dream for
independence. But instead, the sun rose the next day on a very different
Azerbaijan more determined than ever to pursue its dream.
Unfortunately, the perpetrators of the 20 January tragedy went unpunişed. While
the punitive actions against public in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1989 and Vilnius,
Lithuania in 1991 were strongly condemned by the Soviet and world public, the
truth of the Black January received less public attention through the efforts of
the Soviet authorities. The Soviet authorities removed all files and evidences
related to this massacre from Azerbaijan. The massacre of 20 January was one of
the outrageous manifestations of the totalitarian regime against its own
citizen.
In 1991 Azerbaijan became independent. Today the victims of the Black January
repose in Martyr’s Alley in the capital city of Baky. They were among the first
to sacrifice their lives for freedom that Azerbaijan nowadays enjoy and those
heroes will never be forgotten…
P.S. Please have a quick glance to these web-sites!
www.january20.net
www.azerigenocide.org
www.khojaly.org
www.khojaly.org.az
www.khocaly.s5.com
www.khojaly.net
www.karabakh-doc.gen.az
www.karabakh.org
www.karabakh-terror.com
www.come.to/khojaly