ArmInfo. The Armenian Foreign Ministry made a statement on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the Armenian pogroms in Baku. The press service of the Foreign Ministry reports. The statement reads, in particular: "31 years ago, the international community witnessed yet another atrocity against the Armenian people in Azerbaijan.
Pogroms and mass deportations of the Armenian population, which forms the basis of the multicultural image of Baku, were carried out in the capital of Azerbaijan with particular cruelty for several days. killed, maimed, missing, tens of thousands of refugees.The Armenian pogroms in Baku in January 1990 completed the process of expulsion of Armenians from Azerbaijan.The anti-Armenian policy of the Azerbaijani authorities was aimed not only at the Armenian population living in Baku for centuries, but also at the Armenian historical and the cultural heritage of the city. To this day, the organizers and performers of the Armenian pogroms in Baku, which they continue to glorify as heroes, have not been called to account. Moreover, we are still witnessing attempts by Azerbaijan to implement this policy of ethnic cleansing and the expulsion of Armenians from Artsakh. This is the complete eviction of Armenians from the territories of Artsakh, which were under the occupation of Azerbaijan, carried out by massive war crimes and by the method of ethnic cleansing. Today, paying tribute to the memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian pogroms in Baku, we once again emphasize the joint responsibility of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Artsakh and the Armenians of the whole world to ensure the right of the Armenian people to live freely and with dignity in their homeland. "