Today, on January 20, 2014 the Parliamentary Advocate Aurelia Grigoriu took part in the event dedicated to the anniversary of the tragic events that had  place in January 1990 in Baku. A minute of silence in honor of the memory of the dead was held at the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Moldova.

Below is the text of the Aurelia Grigoriu appeal about this event.

Impossible to find words that would express the pain and compassion for the people of Azerbaijan in connection with the 24th anniversary of the January events in Baku. Bloody crime committed by the Soviet army on the orders of the Kremlin leaders of those times, headed by Gorbachev, will forever remain in human memory.

Invasion of the armed forces in Baku and severe violence against the civilian population with the use of heavy machinery and deadly weapons in the complete absence of any resistance - was a crime against the civilian population.Military personnel brutally shot people in place, intentionally made assaults carried out tanks and armored personnel carriers on passenger cars with the murder of people in them, shelled hospitals, impeded health-care personnel to assist the wounded.Against civilians have been used bayonets, bullets Kalashnikov 5.45mm with a displaced center of gravity, which not only deduce man of action, but multiply the suffering and makes itdeath inevitable.

In total, as a result of unconstitutional introduction of troops in Baku and regions of the country were killed 133 people, and injured 744 people, were illegally arrested 841 people, and 5 people were declared as missing. The soldiers sacked and burned 200 houses and apartments, 80 vehicles, including ambulances, destroyed public and private property for a total of 5,637,286 of the then Soviet rubles. Most of those killed were women, children and the elderly, as well as ambulance and police workers.

Bloody tragedy, which took place in Baku in January 1990, once again showed anti-national character of the totalitarian regime, when the Soviet armed forces once again have been used not to protect against external aggression but and against his own people as an act of intimidation for those who encroach on the basis Soviet authorities. Once again, after the events in Kazakhstan and Tbilisi (and later in Vilnius) was shown the fictitious of sovereign rights of the Union republics.

I fully agree with the Ombudsman of Azerbaijan Mrs. Elmira Suleymanova that international organizations, the world’s society are obliged to give a legal assessment of those bloody actions, the perpetrators should be punished.

Dear friends Azerbaijanis.

On this day of Nationwide Sorrow, I grieve with you, I bow to the memory of all the victims in those tragic days. Believe that their death was not in vain and Azerbaijan will restore its territorial integrity.

Eternal homage to the dead!