President Aliyev pays tribute to martyrs [PHOTO]
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Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev visited the Alley of Martyrs on January 20, the Day of National Mourning, to pay tribute to the victims of the bloody January 1990 tragedy.
The president laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame memorial.
State and government officials, leaders of religious communities, ambassadors of foreign countries and representatives of international organizations functioning in Azerbaijan also attended the commemoration ceremony.
Hundreds of civilians were crushed or injured by the Soviet
troops in Baku on January 20, 1990, on an order from the USSR
leadership that was trying to maintain the Communist regime in
Azerbaijan and strangle the national liberation movement.
The invasion was launched at midnight and was committed with
brutality; even children, women and the elderly were not
spared.
As a result of the intrusion of troops into Baku and regions of the country, 133 people were killed, more than 700 wounded, and about 800 illegally arrested.
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