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January 20 events commemorated in different countries

18 January 2010 13:40 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Azerbaijanis living in the different countries hold commemoration ceremonies on the occasion of 20th anniversary of January 20 events and pay tribute to the victims of the tragedy, press service of the State Committee for Diaspora Activities told APA. Strasburg-based Azerbaijani House devoted January 17 edition of half-monthly Sunday radio program to January 20 tragedy.
Head of Azerbaijani House Mustafa Alinca joined the program via phone and spoke about the protest of Strasburg Azerbaijanis against some French publications based on Russian and Armenian sources about the events in Azerbaijan in that period and Azerbaijani Houseâ€™s activity to deliver true information to the French community. The program also broadcasted Azerbaijani Houseâ€™s statement on the January 20 tragedy, which demands France, the first country adopted human rights law and Strasburg-based European Court of Human Rights to give political value to the January 20 events, to bring its originators to justice and to make efforts to punish them.

Benelux Azerbaijani Congress (BAC) held a commemoration ceremony in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on the occasion of January 20 events. Azerbaijani embassy officials, Diaspora organizations, businessmen and students attended the ceremony and remembered the victims with a minute of silence. Ramiz Aliyevâ€™s fim about January 20, as well as art composition were shown at the event.

Event on the 20th anniversary of January 20 tragedy was held in Kant, Kyrgyzstan, by Azeri Public Union in Bishkek and Fund for Supporting the Policy of Turkic-speaking States. Chairman of Azeri Public Union Akif Alaferdov gave information about the tragedy, crimes committed by the Soviet army in Baku.

Azerbaijani Cultural Centers Association in Tashkent will hold commemorative events on the occasion of January 20 tragedy in Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Fergana and Navai provinces of Uzbekistan on January 18-20. The martyrs of the bloody January will be commemorated in the Teachers House in Kiev. The event will be organized by the Ukrainian Azerbaijanis Congress and Azerbaijani embassy in Ukraine. â€œGenocide realities against Azerbaijanisâ€ by head of Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, academician Ramiz Mehdiyev will be presented.
The regional offices of the congress will also hold commemorative events in Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk.

Belarus Azerbaijani Communities Congress and Azerbaijani embassy in this country will commemorate the victims of January 20 tragedy in Minsk. A documentary film about the tragedy will be demonstrated.