BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 20. The Alley of
Martyrs in Baku is predicted to be repaired sooner or later, Head of
the Baku City Executive Power Eldar Azizov instructed reporters, Trend experiences.
“The constructions of the town authorities are always concerned
within the work on the Alley of Martyrs. There have handed 33 years,
and repairs are deliberate right here sooner or later. A brand new composition was
offered in the present day. We at all times maintain the alley beneath management,” Azizov
defined.
The Alley of Martyrs is a cemetery and memorial devoted to
these killed by the Soviet Army in January 1990.
On the evening of January 19-20, 1990, on account of army
aggression of the models of the Soviet Army and particular forces, as
nicely as contingents of inner troops in opposition to Azerbaijan,
civilians, together with kids, girls, and the aged had been
massacred within the cities of Baku, Sumgayit, Lankaran and Neftchala
by order of the USSR management.
As a results of the occupying forces’ army aggression 149
civilians had been killed, 744 had been significantly injured, and 4 individuals
went lacking. The Soviet military despatched to the nation with a view to
forcefully suppress the mass protests of the Azerbaijani individuals and
the nationwide independence motion began in response to the
discrimination coverage of the USSR management in opposition to the individuals of
Azerbaijan, the deportation of lots of of hundreds of
Azerbaijanis from their historic lands within the territory of
present-day Armenia, and Armenia’s unfounded territorial claims
in opposition to Karabakh, dedicated an unprecedented bloodbath in opposition to the
civilian inhabitants grossly violating worldwide legislation and the
Constitution.
