AN UPDATED VERSION OF THE DOCUMENTARY “BAKU, JANUARY 1990” WILL BE PRESENTED ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRAGEDY
Panorama
Jan 14 2011
Armenia
The new version of the documentary “Baku, January 1990” has been
completed in the frameworks of the project “An Ordinary Genocide”. The
premiere of the documentary will take place on Public Television of
Armenia in the period when the 21st anniversary of the genocide of
Armenians in Baku will be marked. The reason for updating the film
was the previously unknown data, documents and photographs discovered
by our creative team.
“We found documents of 20 years prescription, which allowed us to
represent the tragedy of the Armenians in Baku more specifically
and detailed”, “An Ordinary Genocide” project manager Marina
Grigoryan says. “The documentary about the pogroms and genocide
of Armenians in Baku was the first one in the series and coincided
with the 20th anniversary of the tragedy. Today we have new data;
in particular we have incomplete lists of the dead created in hot
pursuit, death certificates of many victims, their photographs,
as well as international documents. For example, few people know
today that on January 18, 1990 five U.S. senators (including a future
presidential candidate John Kerry) appealed to Mikhail Gorbachev with
a request to stop the killings of Armenians in Azerbaijan and noted
that the horrifying violence in Azerbaijan once again underlines the
necessity of reunification of 160,000 Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh
with Armenia.”
According to the project manager the new facts also prove that the
systematic murders and persecutions of the Armenians, just as it was
in case of the Russians and the Jews, in Baku began in 1988 and more
intensively continued in 1989, and January was the final act of the
genocide. How else is it possible to interpret death certificate of
an Armenian, issued by the Baku-based State registry office in May
1989 where as the cause of death is indicated “the compression of the
neck loop” which means that the man was hanged? The incomplete list
of dead that were compiled in those years shows that in 1989 in Baku
the residents of Armenian nationality were purposefully killed.
The premiere of the updated version of the documentary “Baku, January
1990. An Ordinary Genocide” will be presented to the audience in
upcoming days. It is planned that the Russian version of the film
will be broadcasted on the air of several Russian TV channels; the
English version is being prepared too. The work over the documentary
revealing the true implication about the so-called “Khojaly events” is
almost completed too. The documentary factually proves that whatever
happened around Aghdam on February 26, 1992 was the result of the
actions and inactions of the then political elite of Azerbaijan.
The project “Ordinary Genocide” is implemented by the Center of
Information and Public Relations of the President of Armenia and
is intended to tell the truth about the events of 1988-1992 during
which the Armenian population of Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh
was deliberately subjected to ethnic cleansing and genocide. In
the frameworks of the project are prepared the documentaries “Baku,
January 1990 “, and “Sumgait, February 1988” and “Maragha, April,
1992” which have been shown by different TV channels, they have been
translated in Russian, English, French and Arabic, they are available
on Internet and are being widely spread in DVD-format. At present
the working group of the project is working over the project titled
“The Operation “Koltso”, the premier of which will coincide with the
20th anniversary of the tragic events, and will be presented on May
of the current year.
From: A. Papazian