"Black" January of 1990. Baku without Armenians

In 1990 on January 13-19 the deportation and massacre of the 200 thousand Armenian population took place in Baku.

Armenians' presence in the territory of Azerbaijan "worried" many Azerbaijanis, which was shaped in almost all the fields of social and political life.

Since 1988-1989 a wide agitation was carried out in Azerbaijan, which was followed by the deportation of the Armenians from their property. Azerbaijan seems to be "inspired" with its "elder brother" Turkey's genocide and massacres countless examples. It finally decided to solve "the Armenian problem."

At least the picture was the same; religious and nationalist propaganda, hooligan massacre and deportation of the Armenian population, which were led directly by the State Government's direction.

By January 13, 1990, when Armenian pogroms began in Baku, the local Armenian population had considerably decreased down to 50,000.

The tragic events were the result of forcible transfer of power to the Popular Front of Azerbaijan, amid the imminent collapse of the USSR. By that time, when the unspeakably cruel Armenian pogroms began, the Soviet troops deployed in Baku had been blocked in the Salyanski barracks. Some members of the Russian servicemen’s families were killed or injured.

The Popular Front of Azerbaijan blocked the Russian troops for the only purpose of leaving the local Armenian population helpless before the thousands of fascist and recidivists.

Another factor complicating the situation was that the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijani SSR was unable to hold a sitting to give consent to the introduction of troops as the Popular Front of Azerbaijan threatened with physical violence.

The exact number of victims of the Armenian pogroms in Baku is not clear yet. The violence almost completely emptied Baku from Armenians.

Because of the Armenian population's scattered innocent blood Azerbaijan got its answer when the Armenians, filled with hatred the Azerbaijani, who killed Armenian women and children in Sumgait, Baku, Nagorno-Karabakh, killed the grievous Azerbaijani.

Armenians proved that Azerbaijan's and its "elder brother," Turkey's ambitions towards Armenia were unrealistic, are unrealistic and will always be unrealistic.