Azeri diaspora the US calls on world community to commemorate 20 January tragedy

The American Azerbaijan Society has disseminated a statement whereby it says, "the world nations should remember the people of Azerbaijan has gained today’s independence due to huge human losses," informs AzerTAg.

The New-Jersey-based headquarter of the Society in the statement sent to influential American information sources stresses that on 20 January 1990 the soviet troops attacked to Baku where massacred 140 innocent civilians. On direction of Mikhail Gorbachev, the troops armed up to teeth, the military helicopters and naval forces attacked the capital of Azerbaijan in sleepy-time on that day. Among the killed in the early morning on 20 January, there were Azerbaijanis, Russians, Tatars, Lezghins, Jews and others. Women, children, the old were subjected to fire. This was the attempt to turn out the nation from the struggle that rose to defend its sovereignty. The tragedy, on the contrary, cemented the will of people for liberation. In 1991, one of the firsts among the soviet republics, Azerbaijan adopted Constitutional Act on Independence. And then, the soviet troops that became the token of oppression and cruelty were completely driven from the Republic.