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...shaking up the leadership of the southern republic in the Caucasus Mountains, Georgian party officials were following a pattern set last year in the neighboring republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan. After four months of nationalist protests there, the Armenian and Azerbaijani party chiefs were fired, apparently for their inability to halt the unrest...
Sometimes these tales of grief from the earthquake zone merged seamlessly with horror stories of brutal rapes and beatings during ethnic clashes last February in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait. The people I spoke with insisted that after the earthquake, Azerbaijanis refused to help, announcing that "Allah has finally heard us." Some claimed that trains from the neighboring Muslim republic were even scrawled with graffiti reading DECEMBER 7. HAPPY HOLIDAY! When I asked an airport official if he had seen any aid arrive from Azerbaijan, he responded, with a dismissive wave, "Even if they offered it, we can do very...
...agreed to donate $1000 to the relief effort, and, in two separate resolutions, decried Azerbaijani officials' conduct towards Armenian nationals...
...Through carefully crafted plans of plunder, arson, deportation and personal assault, the Azerbaijani government officials are raping the republic; this, if not with the tacit approval, at least with the tranquil acceptance, of Soviet leadership and Soviet troops," the order read...
...second, more strongly worded order, sponsored by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci and Councillors Francis H. Duehay '55 and Alice K. Wolf also decried the violence and called on the United Nations to send a team of impartial observers to the Soviet Armenian and Azerbaijani Republics...