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    NAGORNO-KARABAKH PARLIAMENT APPEALED TO UN, EU AND OSCE

    news.am
    Jan 20 2010
    Armenia

    On January 19, the political forces of the NKR National Assembly,
    in particular, "Democracy", "Motherland", and "ARFD-Movement-88"
    factions, issued a statement related to the January 1990 Armenian
    massacres in Baku. NEWS.am posts the full text.

    "Twenty years ago, massacre of the Armenian population was organized
    and coolly implemented on the state level in the capital city of the
    then official Soviet Azerbaijan - Baku. 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 homeland.

    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 whole
    20th century, as a result of which the native Armenian population
    was deprived of its inalienable right to state self-organization,
    in particular, the massacres, which started on January 13, 1990 in
    Baku, assess them as:

    - a fact of mass violation of the human rights and freedoms, first
    of all, the right to life;

    - evident demonstration of the Azerbaijani state policy of xenophobia,
    national intolerance, and ethnic cleansing;

    - the heaviest crime committed against the humanity on the state
    level - Genocide, the responsibility for which, according to the
    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:

    - 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;

    - 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."
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