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STEPANAKERT—Three political parties
represented in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s National
Assembly, the Democracy, Motherland, and the ARFD-Movement-88
parties, issued a statement Tuesday commemorating and
condemning the 1990 massacres of Armenians in Baku and demanding
legal justice be served to Azerbaijan for organizing the
programs.
We present the translated statement below:
Statement Of The Political Forces Of The
National Assembly Of The Nagorno Karabakh Republic
Twenty years ago, the massacre of the
Armenian population was organized and coolly implemented on the
state level in the capital city of Baku in the then official
Soviet Azerbaijan. Thousands of innocent people – women,
children and old people – were killed with extreme brutality,
and tens of thousands of people, suffering from heavy physical
wounds and moral shock, were deported and deprived of their
homes.
In fact, the January massacres in Baku became
the finale of the violations and deportations committed towards
the native and state-making Armenian population of the Eastern
Transcaucasia in 1905-1906, 1918-1920, and 1988-1990. It was the
specific response of the Azerbaijani authorities to the
peaceful, just, and legal right of the Nagorno Karabakh people
to worthy life in their homeland, which took place with the
criminal connivance of the USSR authorities.
We, the representatives of the political
forces of the National Assembly of the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic, condemning once again the violations committed towards
Armenians in Azerbaijan during the 20th century, as a result of
which the native Armenian population was deprived of its
inalienable right to self-determination, in particular, the
massacres, which started on January 13, 1990 in Baku, assess
them as:
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A fact of mass violation of the human
rights and freedoms, first of all, the right to life;
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Evident demonstration of the Azerbaijani
state policy of xenophobia, national intolerance, and ethnic
cleansing;
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The heaviest crime committed against
humanity on the state level – Genocide, the responsibility for
which, according to international law, has no time limitation.
The Nagorno Karabakh Republic will seek the
legal assessment of the violations, deportations and ethnic
cleansing implemented in Azerbaijan and the punishment of the
organizers, regardless of their current political and public
position and residence.
As demonstration of this legal and just
intention, we call upon the UN, EU, OSCE, and member-states of
the OSCE Minsk Group:
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To hold an impartial investigation of the
violations committed towards the Armenian population in Baku
between January 13 and January 20 and give the legal
assessment to the actions of the organizers and executors of
the crime;
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Not to equate the crimes organized on the
state level in peaceful conditions with the privations, which
the region’s peoples suffered due to the war unleashed by
Azerbaijan.
To avoid further undesirable developments, we
demand to condemn and use corresponding penalties towards the
criminal state. This is not only the right of the sufferer, but
also the duty of the international structures, as Genocide is a
crime against the humanity.
“Democracy”
“Motherland”
“ARFD-Movement-88”
Factions of the National Assembly of the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic
January 19, 2010
Stepanakert
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