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Newly-arrived troops struggle to halt a civil war

The Argus-Press – Jan 17, 1990

MOSCOW (AP) — More than 11.000 newly ar­rived troops fought today to end battles between bands of Azerbaijanis and Armenians, who reportedly were armed with everything from submachine guns and grenades to com­mandeered artillery.
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Civil war threatens in Soviet republics

The Fort Scott Tribune – Jan 15, 1990

MOSCOW (AP) — Azerbaijanis and Armenians appeared on the verge of open warfare today after a spasm of ethnic clashes and pogroms in the southern republic of Azerbaijan claimed at least 32 lives, Soviet media reported.
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Claims of France in Asia Minor

New York Times, January 2, 1919

Wants to Guide Armenia, Syria, and Lebanon if Peace Congress Will Assent.
BASED ON 1915 TREATIES
Palestine Would be Under International Protection — Armenia Demands Ultimate Independence.

PARIS, Jan. 1, (Associated France plans to assume the guidance of the destinies of Armenia, Syria, and Lebanon in the new order of world affairs, in conformity with treaties signed with Great Britain and Russia in 1915, it the Peace Conference does not rule otherwise, according to authoritative information furnished The Associated Press. Continue reading

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Armenian refugees who fled tell of being terrorized in Azerbaijan

St-Petersburg-Times-Jan23-1990
By ELIZABETH SHOGREN
Times Correspondent

MOSCOW — Sonya, a 25-year-old Armenian woman, choked back tears as she told other refu­gees how Azerbaijanis ransacked her apartment and killed her moth­er last week in the southern Soviet republic of Azerbaijan.
The young woman is among tens of thousands of Armenians who have fled Azerbaijan in the past 10 days, many of the refugees bringing nothing with them but the clothes on their backs.
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Thousands call for strike, demand pullout of troops

Under the state of emer­gency proclaimed Saturday over the signature of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorba­chev, all public gathering and strikes are banned. But troops have generally not tried to disperse crowds, apparently fearing massive resistance.
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Shoot to Put Down Caucasus Violence, Soviet Troops Told

The Daily Gazette – Jan 17, 1990
By ANN IMSE

MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin yesterday told the thousands of soldiers it sent to the Caucasus to shoot if need be to halt bands of Azerbaijani and Armenians fighting each other in hills around the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Thousands of Armenian refugees poured from the southern republic of Azerbaijan, many beaten or chased from their homes by angry mobs. Some blamed the attacks on Azerbaijani who earlier fled ethnic violence in Armenia.
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Upheaval in the East: Emigres; Armenians in U.S. Say the People of the Homeland Are in Danger, but What Can Be Done?

By SETH MYDANS, Special to The New York Times
Published: January 23, 1990

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22— Khachatur Nagapityan, a track and field coach, came here from Soviet Armenia just two years ago, but he is ready to return whenever he is needed to fight for what he sees as his people’s survival. ”It happened once before, in 1915, and now history is being repeated,” he said, referring to the mass killings of Armenian civilians by the Ottoman Turks during World War I. Now, like many other Armenians and Armenian-Americans here, he was showing his helplessness and frustration after scores of his countrymen were reported killed last week in a dispute with Soviet Azerbaijanis.
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Radicals seize city radio in Azerbaijan

New Straits Times – Jan 14, 1990

MOSCOW. Sat. Nationalists in the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan have seised control of a city radio station and set up their own security patroll, a Government newspaper said yesterday. The incidents in the city of Lenkoran followed a gunbattle in an Azerbaijani village on Thursday in which a Soviet officer was killed and a sergeant wounded.
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Признание Геноцида армян в мире

Замораживая напряженные отношения в переговорах между Турцией и Европейским Союзом, подчеркивая русское и американское влияние, официальное признание Армянского геноцида напоминает дипломатический поединок. Не случайно то, что Кипр был второй страной в мире, которая признала Геноцид армян в 1982 году, за год до одностороннего провозглашения Турецкой Республики Северного Кипра.
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Tass Reports Cease-Fire as Tensions Ease in Azerbaijan

Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Jan 26, 1990

MOSCOW (AP) – Warring na­tionalists agreed Thursday to a cease-fire along one of the tense battlefronts of the bloody conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, TASS said.
The announcement came as Bal­tic activists, worried that the dis­pute might affect their own peace­ful push for independence, offered to help mediate the blood feud be­tween Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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