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France reveres memory of January 20 victims

Society Materials 21 January 2011 16:52 (UTC +04:00)
Paris hosted a ceremony to commemorate the martyrs 20 January in connection with the 21st anniversary of the bloody events in Baku in 1990.
France reveres memory of January 20 victims

Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan. 21 /Trend, T.Hajiyev/

Paris hosted a ceremony to commemorate the martyrs 20 January in connection with the 21st  anniversary of the bloody events in Baku in 1990.

Participants of the events, which included representatives of the Azerbaijani diaspora, students, staff of the Azerbaijani embassy in France and permanent representative of to UNESCO, first visited the tomb of chairman of the first Parliament of the first eastern Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan Alimardanbey Topchubashev and editor-in-chief of the then newspaper Azerbaijan, a prominent journalist Jeyhun Hajibeyli and laid flowers on them, paid a moment of silence to memory of martyrs who died on Jan. 20 in the name of freedom and independence of Azerbaijan.

The Soviet army commenced military operations against Azerbaijan early morning Jan. 20, 1990, before declaring a state of emergency. The tragedy claimed the lives of 131 people, including 117 Azerbaijanis, six Russians, three Jews and three Tatars. Some 744 people were severely injured. Four went missing and 400 were arrested. Twenty-one people were killed after a state of emergency was declared on Jan. 20. Twenty-six people were killed in the Neftchala and Lankaran regions.

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