Mr. Gorbachev,
As it happens 16 years successively since 1990, on January 20 people of Azerbaijan go into mourning and commemorate the defenseless compatriots killed in result of invasion of the Soviet troops to Azerbaijan.
Events of Bloody January - 133 people of peaceful population killed, knocked down by tanks on the streets of the city, 611 wounded women and children, 200 homes ruined and burned down.
Tragedy of Bloody January is a result of your order to invade peaceful city of Baku and some regions of the Azerbaijan Republic by armed troops of the Red Army on January 19-20, 1990. This was undisguised aggression against Azeri people undertaken by leadership of CPSU, Soviet State and personally by you, Michael Gorbachev.
However, this was not the first demonstration of your anti-Azeri policy. Beginning from 1988 you were taking measures against sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Actions towards withdrawal of Daghli Garabagh from subordination to the Azerbaijan Republic started in result of our preconceived policy. Consequently, result of your efforts is slaughter of ten thousands of Azeris in Garabagh.
You were president of great state, leader of millions of people. People considered you as a stronghold of stability and justice. For the whole world your name was the synonym of democracy, reformation and glasnost in USSR. However, your activity was absolutely opposite to these remarks. You became grim descendant of totalitarian regime of you ancestors. Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia are witnesses of this. These are the first republics started their struggle for sovereignty. Now, the great state is ruined, former brother republics are isolated, families are separated, and these are significant results of your “presidency”.
You and others guilty of actions of aggression against Azeri people still are not punished by the world legal institutions. However, your names are written by blood in the history of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan does not forget heroic people who have struggled for sovereignty and territorial integrity of the republic. In the same way, we will never forget those who have caused events of Bloody January, which was the next step in the action called genocide against Azeri people.
No one and nothing will be forgotten…
