The memory of the martyrs of January 20 was commemorated with a minute of silence – 2024-02-24 22:52:12

Today, at 12:00, there was a minute of silence in the entire territory of Azerbaijan in connection with the 34th anniversary of the January 20 tragedy.

Publika.az It is reported that the ships approaching the Baku Sea Port and the cars moving on the roads of the capital gave sound signals, and everyone remembered the tragedy that happened to the people of Azerbaijan.

It should be noted that on the night of January 19-20, 1990, under the orders of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, troops of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, the State Security Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs entered Baku and several regions of Azerbaijan. , the civilian population was massacred by firing from heavy equipment and various types of weapons. The occupation of Baku by special forces of the Soviet army and a large contingent of internal troops was accompanied by special cruelty and unprecedented brutality. Until the introduction of the state of emergency was announced to the population, military personnel mercilessly killed 82 people and fatally wounded 20 people. After the declaration of the state of emergency, 21 people were killed in Baku within a few days. Eight more people were killed in regions and cities where the state of emergency was not declared – on January 25 in Neftchala and on January 26 in Lankaran.

Thus, 147 people were killed and 744 injured in Baku and surrounding regions as a result of the illegal deployment of troops.

Among the dead were women, children and the elderly, as well as emergency workers and militiamen. The illegal introduction of troops was also accompanied by mass arrests of civilians. During the operations, 841 people were illegally arrested from the capital Baku and other cities and regions of the republic, 112 of them were sent to prisons in various cities of the USSR. Military personnel fired at 200 houses, 80 cars, including ambulances, and a large amount of state and private property was destroyed as a result of fires caused by incendiary bullets.

The actions of the Soviet troops showed all the signs that were condemned in the international tribunal held in 1945-1946 and went down in history as the Nuremberg process. In total, Azerbaijan has 150 martyrs on January 20.