Word: baku
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Radio Moscow reported yesterday that the situation in Baku remained "complex"--a Russian euphemism that can signify widespread unrest. It said the military commander in Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, vowed that his troops would stop further attacks...
Anti-Armenian riots and killings in Baku on January 13 ignited ethnic warfare between Azerbaijanis and Armenians. Azerbaijanis have since threatened to secede from the Soviet Union...
Soviet troops smashed their way into Baku on Saturday to quell the nationalist uprising, and Soviet officials said the assault left 83 dead, including 14 soldiers and members of their families...
...Moscow since the death of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini last year, seemed embarrassed by the turmoil. In fact, Khomeini's successor, Hashemi Rafsanjani, may have inadvertently fueled the rise of ethnic nationalism in Soviet Azerbaijan when he stopped off there last June after visiting Moscow. He told large crowds in Baku that bilateral agreements he had just signed would lead to increased tourism and trade between the two Azerbaijani regions...
Azerbaijan is turning into a permanent crisis for Gorbachev. There have been two years of something approaching civil war over the republic's mostly Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, where more than 120 people have been killed. In Baku, Azerbaijani gangs have systematically terrorized Armenians. Violence has also broken out in the southwestern city of Jalilabad, where two weeks ago mobs took over the local Communist Party headquarters and police station, and are threatening to elect their own leaders...