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    Karabakh Armenians mark 25th anniversary of liberation movement

    http://www.armenianow.com/karabakh/43478/armenia_karabakh_stepanakert_liberation_anniversar y_rally
    KARABAKH | 14.02.13 | 14:13


    Photo: NKR President's office


    A rally dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the start of the
    national-liberation movement in Karabakh was held in Revival Square in
    Stepanakert on Wednesday.

    Speaking at the rally, Karabakh President Bako Sahakyan described the
    holding of such an event as a significant phenomenon both from the
    political and moral-psychological points of view.

    Primate of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church,
    Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan, Karabakh government members, veterans
    of the movement and thousands of ordinary citizens took part in the
    rally.

    On February 13, 1988, Armenians in Karabakh, then an autonomous oblast
    in the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic, began demonstrating in
    their capital, Stepanakert, in favor of unification with then Soviet
    Armenia. Six days later they were joined by mass marches in the
    Armenian capital of Yerevan, with the Soviet of People's Deputies in
    Karabakh voting overwhelmingly on February 20 to request the transfer
    of the region to Armenia.

    Nationalists in Azerbaijan responded with pogroms in Sumgait and
    further ethnic reprisals against hundreds of thousands of Armenians
    living in Baku and other cities and towns across the country. The
    collapse of the USSR in late 1991 triggered a war over the enclave
    that ended in 1994 with Karabakh Armenians gaining de-facto
    independence from Azerbaijan.




    From: A. Papazian
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