BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 15. Until late Eighties,
the vast majority of the inhabitants of Armenia’s Yerevan have been
Azerbaijanis, an article within the Foreign Policy Association, a
non-profit group with headquarters in New York, mentioned,
Trend stories.
“Although many individuals will not be conscious of it at present, the bulk
of Yerevan was once Azerbaijani Turkish. In 1897, there have been
77,491 Azerbaijani Turks and solely 58,148 Armenians in Yerevan
Province,” the article mentioned.
However, after a brutal ethnic cleaning marketing campaign, Yerevan is
now majority Armenian and there aren’t any Azerbaijanis left in
the area, the creator added.
The article famous that the Western Azerbaijan Community has
revealed a public attraction to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol
Pashinyan, claiming, that “Ethnic cleaning is against the law in opposition to
humanity and the protected and dignified return of Azerbaijanis expelled
from Armenia is their official proper”.
Foreign Policy Association quotes the phrases of Bakhtiyar
Nabiyev, Chairman of the Yasamal Regional Branch of the New
Azerbaijan Party, who can also be a refugee from Western Azerbaijan,
saying that the method of expelling Azerbaijanis from their
hometown of Yerevan had begun in February 1988, noting that the
Soviet Armed Forces have been defending Azerbaijanis up till December
that very same 12 months.
“Generally, our folks have been apprehensive and afraid of this course of.
The residents requested to evacuate disabled, aged, youngsters and
ladies first as a result of there was an expectation of an assault from the
Armenians. There was a chance that Armenians might assault any
second,” he mentioned.
Nabiyev recalled how with the assistance of the navy convoy, his
grandparents have been evacuated from their homeland.
“My father was among the many final ones who left the village. He
stayed in Kirovakan till May of 1989. After the earthquake, there
was an influence outage and a restricted variety of residents have been residing
there. My father was saying that Armenians have been coming to our
villages with the assistance of Russian troopers. They continuously requested
him what he was doing there. And he responded that ‘I can’t go away
the homeland of my grandparents.’ Because my father and mom have been
buried right here.’ He left the village in May of 1989 and subsequently the
evacuation course of from our homelands got here to an finish,” he mentioned.
Nabiyev famous that Armenians have been conducting ethnic
cleaning coverage in opposition to Azerbaijanis since 1905-1906.
“Azerbaijanis have been oppressed by Armenians however we didn’t need to
go away our homeland. We lived there for hundreds of years; we can be again,”
he concluded.
