ArmInfo. The Armenian Foreign Ministry belatedly remembered the pogroms of Armenians in Baku.
"34 years ago during these days pogroms against Armenians in Baku became culmination of policy of forcible displacement & ethnic cleansing of Armenian population from Azerbaijani SSR. Hundreds were murdered, mutilated & disappeared, half a million became refugees. We pay tribute to memory of innocent victims & stress imperative to prevent such policies & need of all the rights to be addressed," the Armenian Foreign Ministry said in a post on Twitter (X).
In previous years, the Armenian Foreign Ministry always made lengthy statements instead of being content with two lines on Twitter, and then after criticism from a number of Armenian opposition media.
On January 13, 1990, mass riots on ethnic grounds began in the capital of Azerbaijan, which were accompanied by mass violence against the Armenian population, robberies, murders, arson and destruction of property. According to various sources, 48 to 90 people (according to some data, up to three hundred people) were victims of pogroms. According to Human Rights Watch rapporteur Robert Kushen , "the pogroms were not completely spontaneous, since the pogromists had lists of Armenians and their addresses." By the beginning of the Karabakh conflict, about 200 thousand Armenians lived in Baku, with a total population of 1.7 million people. At the end of February 1988, a pogrom with numerous casualties among Armenians occurred in Sumgait, which became a a turning point in the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict.