OPEN LETTER TO THE EX-PRESIDENT OF THE USSR, M.S.GORBACHEV
Mr. Gorbachev,
As it happens 12 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.