Vahan Hovhannisyan: Children should realize the unanimous power of Armenians

PanARMENIAN.Net - It`s a little bit too late for us to start organizing events dedicated to the January 1990 Armenian pogroms in Baku, but better late than never, said ARFD parliamentary group leader Vahan Hovhannisyan.



It is necessary for children to realize why we managed to resist the Armenian pogroms in Baku in 1905 and 1918 but were unable to do so in 1990, he told journalists, after an open lesson with high school students.



At that, he stressed the importance of organizing thematic lessons every month, to contribute to children`s spiritual upbringing.



On January 30, 1990, the Azerbaijani authorities instigated the Armenian pogroms in Baku. Some 400 Armenians were killed and 200 thousand were exiled in the period of January 13-19. The exact number of those killed was never determined, as no investigation was carried out into the crimes.



On January 13, 1990 a crowd numbering 50 thousand people divided into groups and started "cleaning" the city of Armenians. On January 17, the European Parliament called on EU Council of Foreign Ministers and European Council to protect Armenians and render assistance to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. On January 18, a group of U.S. Senators sent a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev to express concerns over the violence against the Armenian population in Azerbaijan and called for unification of Nagorno Karabakh with Armenia.