• 17 Jan 2024

On January 17, 2024, an event was held at the Faculty of Regional Studies and Economics of Baku Eurasian University under the organization of the "Humanities and Regional Studies" department to commemorate the victims of the January 20 tragedy. The event was opened by the dean of the faculty, docent Mutallim Rahimov. At the event, the dear memory of the Martyrs of January 20 was commemorated with a minute's silence. Then professor Mammad Jafarli, associate professor Jala Ismayilova, associate professor Gunay Huseyn, associate professor Elnur Kalbizadeh, Aygun Ismayilova gave a speech and gave a report on the crimes committed by the military units of the Soviet empire against the Azerbaijani people and the civilian population in January 1990. The speakers said that despite 33 years of the bloody crime committed against the struggle for independence, the people of Azerbaijan have never forgotten their Martyrs. January 20, 1990 will remain a bloody and glorious page in the history of the independence of the Azerbaijani people. As a result of the irresistible desire for independence and integrity, the Patriotic War, which began in September 2020 and lasted for 44 days, ended on November 8 with the victory of the Azerbaijani Army. The military occupation of Azerbaijani territories by Armenia, which lasted for nearly thirty years, ended. With this victory, both January 20 and the martyrs of the Karabakh war were avenged. In her speech, Associate Professor J. Ismayilova also emphasized that the political and legal assessment of the events of January 20 was given in 1994 after the return of national leader Heydar Aliyev to the leadership of the country.