THE ARMENIAN RESIDENTS OF SHOUSHI WERE DISPLACED 18 YEARS AGO
Support A1+!These days, tragic events took place in Shoushi 18 years ago which played a significant role in the further escalation and increase of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict: on May 16-17, 1988, the leadership of the Azerbaijani SSR via its emissaries and local Azerbaijani authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Shoushi region started the deportation of the Armenian population of the town of Shoushi.
These actions which became possible due to the impunity of the Armenian pogroms organized the same year in the town of Sumgayit pursued the aim to extirpate the Armenian element in Nagorno Karabakh.
Absence of adequate estimate, first of all, of the USSR leadership to these actions which, according to international-legal norms were an act of ethnic cleanings, allowed the Azerbaijani SSR authorities to realize pogroms and deportation of the Armenian population of the republic in 1988-91s (Khanlar, Kutkashen, Vartashen, Shamkhor regions, the town of Mingechaur, etc. - November-December of 1988, Kirovabad – November 1989, Baku – January 1990, “Kolco” operation – April-June 1991) which actually created preconditions for the following full-scale aggression against the Nagorno Karabakh Republic.
The NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs focuses the attention of the international community to the fact that the militaristic rhetoric and charging of the atmosphere of xenophobia in the Azerbaijani society is the continuation of the policy conducted by the Azerbaijani authorities and calls to give a worthy evaluation to these events and recognize the international-legal responsibility of the Azerbaijani Republic for mass violation of the basic rights of the Armenian population of the former Azerbaijani SSR and unleashing of aggressive war against the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, which will have immense significance for strengthening the security and peace in the region and will allow to approach the final solution of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict.
