"I have seen how Armenians were
thrown down from balconies,"
eyewitness remembers Baku pogroms
16:37 • 13.01.11
Twenty-one years have already passed since the pogroms against ethnic Armenians in Baku, Azerbaijan, but th
e horrifying memories of those events are still haunting the people who eye witnessed those events.
"I have seen how the Armenians were being thrown down from balconies, how girls walking down the streets were being run over by cars," Sonya Kasparova, an Azerbaijani-Armenia shared her reminiscences at a press conference today, dedicated to the 21st anniversary of the massacres of Armenians in Baku.
"Overwhelmed with scare we didn't know what to do. The Armenians were being massacred. We experienced very bad days," she said.
Nikolai Babajanyan who was a 16-17 young mad during the pogroms said he could not confirm the widespread views that the massacres of Armenians were planned in advance.
Babajanyan is the president of "Our Home is Armenia," an NGO that tackles issues related to Azerbaijani-Armenian refugees.
According to Arsen Avanesov, the president of "Arc of Hope" NOG, in turn, said that from January 13-19 in 1990 in Baku alone 270 Armenians were killed. They left about 123 flats in Azerbaijan, Avanesov added.
Speaking about the problems Azerbaijani-Armenians are currently facing here in Armenia, he said that they are having problems with free movement.
Most of them, accor
ding to Avanesov, want to replace the suffixes in their surnames - usually typical of Russian surnames - by "yan," but have to pass through court procedures because they don't have birth certificates.
The problem here is that those court procedures cost considerable amounts of money and not all can afford it, he added.
"Some of the problems the refugees are facing don't require great efforts for the state to make, but they are not being resolved," said Avanesov.
Twenty-one years have already passed since the pogroms against ethnic Armenians in Baku, Azerbaijan, but th
e horrifying memories of those events are still haunting the people who eye witnessed those events."I have seen how the Armenians were being thrown down from balconies, how girls walking down the streets were being run over by cars," Sonya Kasparova, an Azerbaijani-Armenia shared her reminiscences at a press conference today, dedicated to the 21st anniversary of the massacres of Armenians in Baku.
"Overwhelmed with scare we didn't know what to do. The Armenians were being massacred. We experienced very bad days," she said.
Nikolai Babajanyan who was a 16-17 young mad during the pogroms said he could not confirm the widespread views that the massacres of Armenians were planned in advance.
Babajanyan is the president of "Our Home is Armenia," an NGO that tackles issues related to Azerbaijani-Armenian refugees.
According to Arsen Avanesov, the president of "Arc of Hope" NOG, in turn, said that from January 13-19 in 1990 in Baku alone 270 Armenians were killed. They left about 123 flats in Azerbaijan, Avanesov added.
Speaking about the problems Azerbaijani-Armenians are currently facing here in Armenia, he said that they are having problems with free movement.
Most of them, accor
ding to Avanesov, want to replace the suffixes in their surnames - usually typical of Russian surnames - by "yan," but have to pass through court procedures because they don't have birth certificates.The problem here is that those court procedures cost considerable amounts of money and not all can afford it, he added.
"Some of the problems the refugees are facing don't require great efforts for the state to make, but they are not being resolved," said Avanesov.
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