The Dutch writer, publicist Henri Van Rens, who is writing a book about Karabakh has shared a post about 20 January tragedy on his facebook account. Henri is close friend of Azerbaijan and International Eurasia Press Fund.
The 70 -year-old writer is the one that struggle to prove Armenian crimes and genocides against Azerbaijanis.
This was a violent crackdown on the civilian population of Baku on 19–20 January 1990, as part of a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Mikhail Gorbachev and Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov asserted that military law was necessary to thwart efforts by the Azerbaijani independence movement to overthrow the Soviet Azerbaijani government.
According to official estimates in Azerbaijan, 147 civilians were killed, 800 people were injured, and five people went missing.
In a resolution of 22 January 1990, the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan SSR declared that the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 19 January, used to impose emergency rule in Baku and military deployment, constituted an act of aggression.
