ArmInfo. 35 years ago today, Armenian pogroms took place in Baku. Despite tens of thousands of
our compatriots facing persecution and violence during that time, the Armenian Foreign Ministry did not find time to remember this tragic date in the history of the Armenian people.
However, despite the attempts of the current Armenian authorities to
erase from memory the historically documented events committed by
Azerbaijan, representatives of the expert community and individual
citizens continue to remember the Azerbaijani atrocities of those
years. In this regard, orientalist Sergey
Melkonyan wrote: "Anniversary of fascism in Azerbaijan. Today,
January 13, marks exactly 35 years since the beginning of the pogroms
of Armenians in Baku. These events were a continuation of the de-
Armenization of Azerbaijan, which began with Sumgait in 1988. Baku
used a similar tactic in 2023, organizing ethnic cleansing in
Nagorno-Karabakh. Following the expulsion of the Armenian population,
the fight against historical and cultural heritage persisted in a
manner reminiscent of neo-Nazis. The expert also drew parallels
between the methods employed by Hitler's Germany and the Aliyev
regime: "In the first photo, the windows of a Jewish-owned enterprise
in Berlin are painted with the word "Jude" (Jew), 1939. In the
second photo, the house of an Armenian family in Baku, has "an
Armenian lives here" written on the wall in 1990," Melkonyan wrote,
accompanying his entry with the corresponding photographs.
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