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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle January 20, 2021 – Azerbaijanis on Wednesday commemorate the 31th anniversary of Black January, a brutal crackdown by Soviet army against the people of Azerbaijan.
The mass massacre in January – 31 years ago happened when the Soviet leadership ordered deployment of military forces into Azerbaijan. As a result, more than 25,000 Soviet troops reportedly invaded Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan on the night of January 19,1990. The next day, dozens of people were murdered as Soviet soldiers opened fire into crowds of peaceful unarmed protesters in Baku. The violent crackdown intended to cripple an independence movement by Azerbajanis. Moscow’s military operation move however failed to avert Azerbaijan’s will for independence.