Word: arutyunovs
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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First the buzzer started ringing, then the furious knocking began. Cowering in his apartment in Baku, Ashot Arutyunov, an Armenian retiree, knew better than to open his door. The previous night, Azerbaijani thugs armed with address lists had begun hunting down Armenians house by house. If only he and his family remained quiet, Arutyunov thought, the ominous pounding would stop...
...hours later the mob returned, and this time the wooden door began to splinter under the heavy blows. Arutyunov's wife Asya rushed to the balcony and screamed for the police. Interior Ministry soldiers arrived just in time to save the Arutyunovs from a seething rage of some 100 Azerbaijanis. "The soldiers told us to be ready to leave in three minutes," said Asya. "But what could I gather so quickly? We left with just the clothes on our backs...
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