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Procession to Alley of Martyrs takes place in Azerbaijan's Aghdam (PHOTO)

Society Materials 20 January 2023 21:17 (UTC +04:00)
Procession to Alley of Martyrs takes place in Azerbaijan's Aghdam (PHOTO)

BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 20. Azerbaijan's Aghdam residents held a procession to the Alley of Martyrs on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of January 20 tragedy, Trend reports.

The march was attended by Special Representative of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the liberated territories of the Karabakh Economic Region (except Shusha district) Emin Huseynov, employees of the representative office, executive director of the "Restoration, Construction, and Management in the Karabakh economic region" public legal entity, employees of this structure, military personnel, martyr families, representatives of law enforcement agencies, representatives of companies and institutions operating in Aghdam.

The procession participants, which started from the headquarters of the special representative office of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, visited the Alley of Martyrs, where prayers were offered for the repose of martyrs' souls, flowers were laid at their graves. A minute's silence was observed in memory of the martyrs.

At the end of the event, Emin Huseynov delivered a speech.

On the night of January 19-20, 1990, as a result of military aggression of the units of the Soviet Army and special forces, civilians, including children, women and elderly were massacred in the cities of Baku, Sumgayit, Lankaran and Neftchala by order of the USSR leadership.

As a result of this military aggression, 149 civilians were killed, 744 were seriously injured, and 4 people went missing. The Soviet army sent to the country in order to forcefully suppress the mass protests of the Azerbaijani people and the national independence movement started in response to the discrimination policy of the USSR leadership against the people of Azerbaijan, the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis from their historical lands in the territory of present-day Armenia, and Armenia’s unfounded territorial claims against Karabakh, committed an unprecedented massacre against the civilian population.

On January 21, 1990, immediately after the tragic events, at the Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan in Moscow, National Leader Heydar Aliyev, demonstrating his solidarity with the Azerbaijani people, strongly condemned this crime, demanding political and legal assessment of the massacre, and punishment of the perpetrators. At the special session of the Milli Majlis (Parliament) held in February 1994 the brutal killing of innocent people on 20 January 1990 was qualified as military aggression and a crime, and in March 1994 a decision “On the tragic events committed in Baku on 20 January 1990” was adopted. January 20 was declared the National Mourning Day.

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