Time Monday, Nov. 28, 1988
By PAUL HOFHEINZ YEREVAN
Almost every day for five weeks, a group of Armenians had huddled in the winter chill in front of Moscow’s six-story Supreme Court building, slapping their arms against the sides of their brown fur coats to keep warm. Their breath burst forth in clouds of pale steam as they talked quietly to one another, discussing the fate of those on trial.
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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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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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November 26, 1988
The Soviet human-rights campaigner Andrei D. Sakharov asserted yesterday that more than 130 Armenians had been killed by Azerbaijani mobs in the city of Kirovabad during the spreading ethnic unrest in the southern Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
”With the authorities’ connivance, the murders, rapes and arsons are continuing now for a fifth day and are spreading to other cities and towns of Azerbaijan,” Mr. Sakharov said in a statement from Newton, Mass. Continue reading
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By BILL KELLER
Published: September 11, 1988
YEREVAN, U.S.S.R.— ONE balmy evening several days ago on the plaza outside the city opera house, a group of Armenians were playing Yerevan’s favorite guessing game: What if Armenia broke off from the Soviet Union and declared its independence? One man argued that this would be suicide. Armenia is a Christian island semi-surrounded by Moslims, including the historically hostile Turks. Alone, Armenia would perish, he said. But look at Israel, retorted a university student. A few million Jews in a sea of Arabs, but strong and free. Armenia can do the same. This won a murmur of approval.
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March 6, 1988
By PHILIP TAUBMAN
MOSCOW— MIKHAIL S. GORBACHEV begins his fourth year as Soviet leader this week probably worried less about the state of the economy than the stability of the state.
The nationalist unrest that shook the southern republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia in the last two weeks was a powerful reminder that for all the talk of economic and spiritual decay in the Soviet Union, ethnic instability may be the greatest long-term threat to the future of the country.
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June 4, 1988
By FELICITY BARRINGER, Special to the New York Times
MOSCOW, June 3— Andrei D. Sakharov spoke out today for his Government’s new strivings and against its old and continuing repressions, using the auditorium, microphones and translating services of the Soviet Foreign Ministry for words that not long ago would have been cause for criminal action.
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July 6, 1988
By FELICITY BARRINGER, Special to the New York Times
MOSCOW, July 5— Widespread civil unrest began again in the southern republic of Armenia today as strikers closed the capital’s airport and many industrial enterprises, in pursuit of their demand for the transfer of a disputed region in neighboring Azerbaijan.
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July 11, 1988
By FELICITY BARRINGER, Special to the New York Times
MOSCOW, July 10— ”Our young women greeted the soldiers with flowers when they came in a few months ago,” a Yerevan resident, Samson Tomazyan, said today, a few minutes before he rose to address an angry crowd gathered at Moscow’s Armenian cemetery. ”They won’t be giving them flowers anymore.”
On July 5, the sporadic violence spawned by a resurgent territorial dispute between Armenia and neighboring Azerbaijan came home to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. A 22-year-old demonstrator killed and 36 were wounded during a strike that shut down the main airport for at least 24 hours.
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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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