Remembering Black January - VIDEO
The date of 20 January, 1990 is written in blood for Azerbaijanis across the world, for it commemorates the day when peaceful demonstrations in Baku were violently suppressed by the Soviet troops.
During an operation which began from January 19th night and continued into January 20th, 26,000 hostile and aggressive-minded Soviet special forces called "Alfa" entered Baku and committed atrocities against the Azerbaijani people.
They stormed and murdered hundreds of civilians without declaring a state of emergency, on an order from the USSR leadership that was trying to maintain the Communist regime in Azerbaijan and strangle the national liberation movement.
Protesting against such infringement of the country’s Constitution, hundreds of civilians joined a meeting, with the result that almost 133 of them were killed and over 700 were injured, 841 illegally arrested and five went missing.
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