The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries
began 1987, when Armenia started ethnic cleansing of Azeri and Kurds-Muslims to
make later in 1988 illegal territorial claims against Azerbaijan.
Since 1987 some 11,000 ethnic Azerbaijanis have been
ethnically cleansed from their homes in Armenia. They became the very first
refugees of the NK conflict. In 1988-1989 more than 200,000 Azerbaijanis were
forced to leave Armenia. During the ethnic cleansing at least 216 Azerbaijanis
were killed. On December 1989
ethnical cleansing was accomplished and Armenia celebrated festival “Armenia
without Turks”
There are lots of staggering facts about the bloody
disasters that Azeris and Kurds had to face. One of them has taken place on September 16, 1989. Armenian gangs made a terror
attack in the Yevlakh district of the Azerbaijan SSR :
their target was a passenger bus "Tbilisi-Baku". As a
result of this terror act 5 people were killed, and 25 were
injured.
Oleg Litvin, the journalists from news agency AzerTag, who
shot the terrible consequences of terrorist attack. One of his
photographs shows a burnt face of Azerbaijani baby (see
photo 1).
Photo1: The original photo made by Oleg Litvin, the journalists
from news agency AzerTag, 1989