Mass killings of Armenians and ethnic cleansings that started in Azerbaijan 21 years ago remind of events happening in the Ottoman Empire in the beginning of 20th century and developments in Nazi Germany in the middle of last century, Eduard Sharmazanov, secretary of the Republican Party, told NEWS.am.

“All we know the fate of founders of fascist empire and Azerbaijan should make conclusions from lessons of history,” he said. He stressed importance of drawing international community’s attention to atrocity of Azerbaijan. “Azerbaijan should account for its crimes and we should open eyes of the world community to Azerbaijani lie,” he added, stressing that the Armenian propaganda has recently intensified its efforts and results become tangible.

This day, 21 years ago, tragic events that occurred in the multinational, but not at all tolerant, city of Baku, shocked the entire world. On January 13, 1990, after a regular rally of the national fascist Popular Front of Azerbaijan (PFA), several thousands of brutalized “humans” went raiding the homes of Armenian residents.

The distinctive feature of the unprecedented ethnic pogroms in the capital of one of the Soviet republics – when the USSR was in its death throes – was that attacks and murders had been thoroughly planned, with lists of Armenians put up at the PFA headquarters.