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25 years ago, on 13 January in 1990, in the "international" capital of Soviet Azerbaijan began the last act of genocide and expulsion of Armenians. The city was merely drowned in brutal hatred and bloodlust: for a week Azerbaijanis killed, raped, burned and expelled people with impunity and without hindrance only because they were Armenians. The evidence of witnesses on pogroms in Baku can be found on the site of KarabakhRecords.

“When attackers are resolutely going from district to district and from home to home, that means they have been given lists, that there is someone who is directing [the whole thing]”
Garry Kasparov, repeated World Chess Champion, born in Baku
(Source: Bulvar Gordona, 2 December 2008, available at: http://www.bulvar.com.ua/arch/2008/48/493547f945807/)

“I myself witnessed the murder of two Armenians near the railway station. A crowd gathered, threw petrol on them and set light to them even though the Nasiminsky District Police Station was only 200 meters away – with some 400-500 soldiers of the internal forces. The soldiers drove by the burning bodies at a distance of some 20 meters, and nobody attempted to close off the area and disperse the crowd.”
Etibar Mamedov, a leader of the Azerbaijani Popular Front
(Source: Novaya Zhizn Newspaper, Moscow, 1990, No. 5 (14))

“The massacres were not entirely (or perhaps not at all) spontaneous, as the attackers had lists of Armenians and their addresses.”
Robert Kushen, Reporter at Human Rights Watch
(Source: Conflict in the Soviet Union: Black January for Azerbaidzhan, Human Rights Watch, May 1991)
Russians living in the capital city of Azerbaijan recall with horror scenes of retribution – how their neighbours were shot at point-blank range, thrown off balconies, burned alive and even dismembered by a fanatical Azeri mob.”
(Source: Radio Liberty, 15 January 1990, 06:46)

“The Baku riots had been planned in detail by the Popular Front. On New Year’s Eve, the State Border with Iran was destroyed by the masses; and, on January 11 the pogroms started in Baku. About 40 mobs (with 50-300 people in each) roamed the city.”
Vagif Huseynov, Azerbaijani KGB Chief (1989-1991)
Source: ‘Moskovskiy Komsomolec’ Newspaper, 6 February 2004,
http://babon.sitecity.ru/ltext_0211035934.phtml?p_ident=ltext_0211035934.p_0802055152

“For five days in January of 1990, the Armenian community of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan were killed, tortured, robbed and humiliated. Pregnant women and babies were molested, little girls were raped in front of their parents’ eyes, Christian crosses were burned on their backs, and they were abused for their Christian faith.”
Source: The seventeenth session of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 17-25 July 1997