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...violence erupted in the wake of nine days of demonstrations in neighboring Armenia. By promising to examine local grievances, Gorbachev had managed to calm protests involving hundreds of thousands of marchers in the Armenian capital of Yerevan. But marches were reportedly continuing in Nagorno-Karabakh, an autonomous district that is mainly populated by Armenians but lies within the borders of the Azerbaijan republic. Protests demanding the enclave's annexation by the Armenian republic led to violent clashes between Armenians and Azerbaijanis and, finally, to last week's bloody upheaval in Sumgait...
Rarely, if ever, had the Soviet Union seen such huge and persistent protests. Day after day, large crowds filled the central square of Yerevan, capital of the Soviet Armenian Republic. About 115 miles to the east, similar throngs clogged the streets of Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, which is mainly populated by ethnic Armenians. In both cities the protesters voiced the same demand: that the Armenian Republic be permitted to annex Nagorno-Karabakh, now part of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan. "We've reached our limit," said a Yerevan resident by telephone late last week. "If this...
...announcement of that decision two weeks ago sparked rallies and school boycotts in Stepanakert. Within days the protest had spread to Yerevan, where, witnesses claimed, hundreds of thousands of citizens were congregating each day in front of the Opera House, chanting slogans like "One nation, one republic!" and demanding a special session of the Armenian Republic's legislature to reconsider the question of annexation...
...group received a welcoming telegram from the mayor of Yerevan several days ago, Coleman said...
...said experts had told the group that Yerevan was unlikely to be badly affected by fallout from Chernobyl. But as a precaution, she said, the delegates would not eat fruit or leafy vegetables during their trip...