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THE USSR DEFENSE MINISTER WAS FORCED TO WITHSTAND THE AZERBAIJANI LIES
http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1079:-the-ussr-defense-minister-was-forced-to-withstand-the-azerbaijani-lies&catid=3:all&Itemid=4
Monday, 24 June 2013 16:43
Numerous facts and material evidence on the January 13-19, 1990
massacre and violence against the Armenian population in Baku were
referred to by especially non-Armenian sources.
The crimes of Baku were condemned by the civilized international
community, and the events are recorded in the materials of the
February 19 and March 1, 1990 sessions of the USSR Supreme Soviet
(SS). We should pay attention to the speech of the then USSR Minister
of Defense Dmitry Yazov who, being aware of the events taking place
in Baku those days, made public an entire range of outrageous facts.
We know this official as one of the executors of the Ring operation -
the punitive actions and violence committed against the Armenians
of Artsakh. In this case, the facts presented by him prove once
again the Azerbaijani lies related to the events in Baku, as well
as testify to the direction and essence of the steps taken by this
country's authorities.
By the way, some officials of the USSR KGB (NSC - National Security
Committee) and Interior Ministry also delivered speeches at the closed
meetings of the session and, according to the limited information,
summarized the activities scheduled in advance by the Azerbaijani
leadership.
The Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR responded to the events in
Baku and adopted a resolution on February 13 - to urge the Soviet
authorities to discuss the situation in Nagorno Karabakh at the third
session of the USSR Supreme Soviet. Delivering a speech at the March
1, 1990 session of the USSR Supreme Soviet, Dmitry Yazov drew the
attention of the SS members to the statement of the Azerbaijani SSR
SS Commission and other documents and videos, emphasizing that they
had been distributed among the deputies, intending to draw their
attention from the reality. "...They speak about hundreds of people
killed under the tank tracks (it relates to Azerbaijanis). All this
is slander. The youngest man deceased during the first tree days was
a 14-year-old boy who was among the assaulters. Do you see children
here? And the oldest woman, born in 1915, died from apoplexy, but
was buried as deceased under the tank tracks. Every step contains
lies and forgeries", he said.
The Azerbaijanis, participating in the session, left the hall after
the Defense Minister's statements. Yazov, expressing regret in this
regard, continued his speech, presenting another fact. "They committed
sacrilege - they buried 49 people, but dug 150 graves. What did they
do it for? They did it to somewhat avoid the responsibility before
their own people and make the central authorities responsible for it.
What wrote NGO members and applied in the streets had exactly the same
content that comrade Kafarova's (Azerbaijani MP) statement, condemning
the Center for introducing the state of emergency and involving armed
forces". There were also cases of getting square with the Soviet troops
by the organizers of the Armenian massacres in Baku. Yazov recalled
concrete examples of the Azerbaijani atrocities. "An Azerbaijani
woman addressed an IM sergeant, asking to accompany her through the
dark alley. He did so. In the nearby corner, some people attacked
him and stunned, then dragged into a house, undressed him, put a
ring on his neck, trying to kill him. The sergeant managed to free
himself from the ring and escape. We allowed him to leave for home,
Leningrad. Four soldiers have not been found so far. Those found were
fired with bullets or tortured. By the way, the examination of all
the soldiers testified that they had been mainly fired from behind".
Yazov's clarifications made it apparent that prior to the involvement
of the Soviet troops, Azerbaijan was preparing to counteract their
actions at the highest level, concentrating the resources and forces
gained to this end. This is brightly testified by the minister's
testimony: "Realizing that the soldiers will not fire on the children's
hospital, they deployed there snipers and soldiers; besides, they
installed searchlights to illuminate the military settlement. Before
the soldiers entered, the searchlights were switched on and followed
by brutal shooting of the soldiers who were called up from the Rostov
andKrasnodar region's for driving the technique. The first victims
were four people and the first injured were the paratroopers. When
the columns entered the city, firing came from all the windows, and
I even doubt whether the civilians were killed by the paratroopers'
firing. Both the military and civilian prosecution offices tried to
subject all the corpses to proper medical examination. They examined
none of the corpses, explaining that the Islamic laws prohibited
it. I met the honorable Sheikh. He stated that we were so severe that
had targeted at once 73 bullets at an elderly woman. I insisted on
examining the corpses and he kept stating that it was prohibited by
the Islamic law. I think I have brought enough facts", stated the USSR
Defense Minister at the session. Analyzing the cases, he expressed
confidence that nationalism should be condemned as a phenomenon and
the proper status of Nagorno Karabakh should be finally defined. He
also drew the attention to the fact that the organizers of the tragic
events in Baku had done everything to conceal the truth. According to
him, this was done deliberately and with the only purpose - to blame
the country's leadership. "And as for the truth, the extremists'
activities were widespread acts of violence..."
In Aghdam, an attack was undertaken on the radar unit. They bound the
soldiers, grabbed 40 submachine guns and disabled the radar station.
As a result of the violence, the state border was destroyed. Only
due to this the Iranians, who brought arms with them, could reach
Pushkino and Jalilabad. They sold the arms there. There are some
factual evidences. The so-called session of the Azerbaijani SSR
Supreme Soviet was also convened violently", said Mr. Yazov.
The Armenian SSR Supreme Soviet reflected its position on what had
happened on the USSR-Iranian state border in its resolution:
"The development of the events undeniably confirms that the chain of
anti-Armenian actions following Nagorno Karabakh Armenian population's
demand for self-determination - the Sumgait massacre, the atrocities
committed on the Soviet-Iranian border, the massive violations
of the state border and import of a great number of weapons, the
attempts to overthrow the Soviet power in Lenkoran and other Azeri
settlements and, finally, the genocide of the Armenian population in
Baku and massacre of representatives of other nations in the city -
is a mere smokescreen for concealing the Azerbaijani nationalists'
and separatists' far-reaching plans. The country's leadership continues
to explain the existing situation in the region by Karabakh Armenian's
demand for self-determination, which, actually, leads to an unfriendly
attitude of the country's society towards the entire Armenian people".
It was also emphasized in the February 13, 1990 resolution of the
Armenian SSR SS (signed by Chairman of the ASSR SS Presidium of Mr.
Voskanian and Presidium Secretary Mr. Stepanian) that the flow of
refugees from Azerbaijan had increased those days. Their number in
the ASSR amounted to 240.000 people. Tens of thousands of Armenians
fled from Azerbaijan to different towns of the USSR.
The USSR Supreme Soviet demanded to put an end to the massacres
of Armenians in Baku and other regions of the Azerbaijani SSR and
evaluated them as continuation of the genocide against the Armenian
people. The USSR SS was required to set up a parliamentary commission
to investigate the reasons of the events and to submit the issue to
the third congress of the USSR SS People's Deputies for consideration.
And the last point of the resolution mentioned that urgent measures
should be taken and strong guarantees should be provided to prevent
the repetition of the ferocious acts and to ensure the inviolability
of the Armenian population and foreign citizens in Baku andAzerbaijan.
Ruzan ISHKHANIAN
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Monday, 24 June 2013 16:43
Numerous facts and material evidence on the January 13-19, 1990
massacre and violence against the Armenian population in Baku were
referred to by especially non-Armenian sources.
The crimes of Baku were condemned by the civilized international
community, and the events are recorded in the materials of the
February 19 and March 1, 1990 sessions of the USSR Supreme Soviet
(SS). We should pay attention to the speech of the then USSR Minister
of Defense Dmitry Yazov who, being aware of the events taking place
in Baku those days, made public an entire range of outrageous facts.
We know this official as one of the executors of the Ring operation -
the punitive actions and violence committed against the Armenians
of Artsakh. In this case, the facts presented by him prove once
again the Azerbaijani lies related to the events in Baku, as well
as testify to the direction and essence of the steps taken by this
country's authorities.
By the way, some officials of the USSR KGB (NSC - National Security
Committee) and Interior Ministry also delivered speeches at the closed
meetings of the session and, according to the limited information,
summarized the activities scheduled in advance by the Azerbaijani
leadership.
The Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR responded to the events in
Baku and adopted a resolution on February 13 - to urge the Soviet
authorities to discuss the situation in Nagorno Karabakh at the third
session of the USSR Supreme Soviet. Delivering a speech at the March
1, 1990 session of the USSR Supreme Soviet, Dmitry Yazov drew the
attention of the SS members to the statement of the Azerbaijani SSR
SS Commission and other documents and videos, emphasizing that they
had been distributed among the deputies, intending to draw their
attention from the reality. "...They speak about hundreds of people
killed under the tank tracks (it relates to Azerbaijanis). All this
is slander. The youngest man deceased during the first tree days was
a 14-year-old boy who was among the assaulters. Do you see children
here? And the oldest woman, born in 1915, died from apoplexy, but
was buried as deceased under the tank tracks. Every step contains
lies and forgeries", he said.
The Azerbaijanis, participating in the session, left the hall after
the Defense Minister's statements. Yazov, expressing regret in this
regard, continued his speech, presenting another fact. "They committed
sacrilege - they buried 49 people, but dug 150 graves. What did they
do it for? They did it to somewhat avoid the responsibility before
their own people and make the central authorities responsible for it.
What wrote NGO members and applied in the streets had exactly the same
content that comrade Kafarova's (Azerbaijani MP) statement, condemning
the Center for introducing the state of emergency and involving armed
forces". There were also cases of getting square with the Soviet troops
by the organizers of the Armenian massacres in Baku. Yazov recalled
concrete examples of the Azerbaijani atrocities. "An Azerbaijani
woman addressed an IM sergeant, asking to accompany her through the
dark alley. He did so. In the nearby corner, some people attacked
him and stunned, then dragged into a house, undressed him, put a
ring on his neck, trying to kill him. The sergeant managed to free
himself from the ring and escape. We allowed him to leave for home,
Leningrad. Four soldiers have not been found so far. Those found were
fired with bullets or tortured. By the way, the examination of all
the soldiers testified that they had been mainly fired from behind".
Yazov's clarifications made it apparent that prior to the involvement
of the Soviet troops, Azerbaijan was preparing to counteract their
actions at the highest level, concentrating the resources and forces
gained to this end. This is brightly testified by the minister's
testimony: "Realizing that the soldiers will not fire on the children's
hospital, they deployed there snipers and soldiers; besides, they
installed searchlights to illuminate the military settlement. Before
the soldiers entered, the searchlights were switched on and followed
by brutal shooting of the soldiers who were called up from the Rostov
andKrasnodar region's for driving the technique. The first victims
were four people and the first injured were the paratroopers. When
the columns entered the city, firing came from all the windows, and
I even doubt whether the civilians were killed by the paratroopers'
firing. Both the military and civilian prosecution offices tried to
subject all the corpses to proper medical examination. They examined
none of the corpses, explaining that the Islamic laws prohibited
it. I met the honorable Sheikh. He stated that we were so severe that
had targeted at once 73 bullets at an elderly woman. I insisted on
examining the corpses and he kept stating that it was prohibited by
the Islamic law. I think I have brought enough facts", stated the USSR
Defense Minister at the session. Analyzing the cases, he expressed
confidence that nationalism should be condemned as a phenomenon and
the proper status of Nagorno Karabakh should be finally defined. He
also drew the attention to the fact that the organizers of the tragic
events in Baku had done everything to conceal the truth. According to
him, this was done deliberately and with the only purpose - to blame
the country's leadership. "And as for the truth, the extremists'
activities were widespread acts of violence..."
In Aghdam, an attack was undertaken on the radar unit. They bound the
soldiers, grabbed 40 submachine guns and disabled the radar station.
As a result of the violence, the state border was destroyed. Only
due to this the Iranians, who brought arms with them, could reach
Pushkino and Jalilabad. They sold the arms there. There are some
factual evidences. The so-called session of the Azerbaijani SSR
Supreme Soviet was also convened violently", said Mr. Yazov.
The Armenian SSR Supreme Soviet reflected its position on what had
happened on the USSR-Iranian state border in its resolution:
"The development of the events undeniably confirms that the chain of
anti-Armenian actions following Nagorno Karabakh Armenian population's
demand for self-determination - the Sumgait massacre, the atrocities
committed on the Soviet-Iranian border, the massive violations
of the state border and import of a great number of weapons, the
attempts to overthrow the Soviet power in Lenkoran and other Azeri
settlements and, finally, the genocide of the Armenian population in
Baku and massacre of representatives of other nations in the city -
is a mere smokescreen for concealing the Azerbaijani nationalists'
and separatists' far-reaching plans. The country's leadership continues
to explain the existing situation in the region by Karabakh Armenian's
demand for self-determination, which, actually, leads to an unfriendly
attitude of the country's society towards the entire Armenian people".
It was also emphasized in the February 13, 1990 resolution of the
Armenian SSR SS (signed by Chairman of the ASSR SS Presidium of Mr.
Voskanian and Presidium Secretary Mr. Stepanian) that the flow of
refugees from Azerbaijan had increased those days. Their number in
the ASSR amounted to 240.000 people. Tens of thousands of Armenians
fled from Azerbaijan to different towns of the USSR.
The USSR Supreme Soviet demanded to put an end to the massacres
of Armenians in Baku and other regions of the Azerbaijani SSR and
evaluated them as continuation of the genocide against the Armenian
people. The USSR SS was required to set up a parliamentary commission
to investigate the reasons of the events and to submit the issue to
the third congress of the USSR SS People's Deputies for consideration.
And the last point of the resolution mentioned that urgent measures
should be taken and strong guarantees should be provided to prevent
the repetition of the ferocious acts and to ensure the inviolability
of the Armenian population and foreign citizens in Baku andAzerbaijan.
Ruzan ISHKHANIAN