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Moscow's crackdown, the latest chapter in a tug-of-war between the republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, came a day after some 400,000 demonstrators gathered in Baku's main square to wave purple-and-red Azerbaijani flags, hear speeches and denounce Armenian leaders. The Armenians are demanding that Nagorno-Karabakh be fully incorporated into Armenia. Simultaneously, in the industrial city of Kirovabad and in the Nakhichevan region, Azerbaijani toughs went on anti-Armenian rampages. They even attacked troops deployed to protect Armenian property; four soldiers were killed and three...
...spasm was yet another manifestation of ethnic tensions that confront General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev with a formidable challenge. The Nagorno- Karabakh dispute has revived the historic hostility between Armenians, who are largely Christians, and Azerbaijanis, who are mainly Muslims. Armenia's call for restoration of the enclave and its 160,000 people to Armenian control has been rebuffed by the central government, which fears that any such adjustment might trigger territorial demands elsewhere...
...unrest in Azerbaijan was reportedly set off by Armenian plans to build a factory in Nagorno-Karabakh. "It's not their territory," said an Azerbaijani official. "Why should they be allowed to build a factory there? Who gave them permission?" Armenian officials said they were simply acting on Moscow's plans to discourage ethnic unrest by strengthening the economy of the impoverished region...
...news of trouble spread, hundreds of Armenians living in Azerbaijan fled Kirovabad, Baku and other areas. In Yerevan, the Armenian capital, huge crowds gathered day after day to hear the latest news from Azerbaijan. Toward week's end, amid reports that ethnic clashes in some villages in Armenia had left two people dead, Moscow dispatched troops to Yerevan and ordered a nighttime curfew in the city...
State-run Israel radio said the hijackers, described as four Russians and an Armenian with criminal backgrounds, had large sums of money with them. "It seems as though they were involved in a crime before they took over the plane," the radio said...