For two years angry crowds gathered at the Baku Lenin Square chanting “Death to Armenians” and slaughtering civilians sporadically as they rioted and looted. In January 1990 the final organized mass ethnic cleansing campaign against Armenians in Baku began this week 35 years ago. Few months prior to that in September of 1989 my family and I, thankfully, escaped to Armenia. We lived just a couple blocks away from the Lenin Square, sometimes hiding as the million protesters passed by for hours. In my book “Nowhere A story of Exile” based on my childhood diaries I describe the marches toward the Square on our street and the eerie screaming to kill us that reached my young Armenian ears across several city blocks.
We don’t forget, we will forever remind them. #BakuPogroms
For two years angry crowds gathered at the Baku Lenin Square chanting “Death to Armenians” and slaughtering civilians sporadically as they rioted and looted. In January 1990 the final organized mass ethnic cleansing campaign against Armenians in Baku began this week 35 years ago. Few months prior to that in September of 1989 my family and I, thankfully, escaped to Armenia. We lived just a couple blocks away from the Lenin Square, sometimes hiding as the million protesters passed by for hours. In my book “Nowhere A story of Exile” based on my childhood diaries I describe the marches toward the Square on our street and the eerie screaming to kill us that reached my young Armenian ears across several city blocks.
We don’t forget, we will forever remind them. #BakuPogroms
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