Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan intend to dispel Baku’s myths about Shahid Alley

PanARMENIAN.Net - The organizational committee of the Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan addressed a letter to the Russian State Duma.

“As you know, January 20 is marked in Azerbaijan as the commemoration day of all who died for the country’s independence. All events are centered around the Shahid Alley, which is honored like a “sacred place”. All delegations arriving in Azerbaijan are scheduled to visit and lay a wreath to the graves. But do all know who was buried in this Alley? These are some of criminals, who perpetrated the massacre of Armenians in Baku. There are also some Russians, who, actually, had no connection with those criminals This is nothing but mockery of the memory of civilians and soviet soldiers, who were killed during those days,” the letter says.

“We intend to launch an international investigation to dispel Baku’s myths about Shahid Alley,” committee secretary Mariam Avagyan told a news conference in Yerevan. “We will address to the International Court of Justice,” she said.

For his part, head of Our Home Armenia NGO Nikolay Babajanyan said that among the people who were buried in the Shahid Alley was a woman who committed a suicide after her husband’s death. “A person missing is for some reason also included into the list of Shahids,” he said.