Allahverdi Bagirov: “If we survive, there will be a life-and-death struggle ahead…”

Milli.Az quoted telegraf.com introducing Dilgam Ahmed’s article:

In 1989, the news organ of the Karabakh People’s Assistance Committee, Azerbaijan, was published. The newspaper began its activities during the collapse of the USSR and contains interesting interviews and information that are still relevant today. While looking through the archives of the newspaper, I found it necessary to repeat some forgotten information.

Firuddin Shushali: “It is hard to imagine Azerbaijan without Karabakh”

At the end of 1989, musicologist Firudin Shushinsky (Shushali in the newspaper) told Azerbaijan
Interview. He began the interview by stating that he was against the term “Nagorno-Karabakh”: “I do not agree with the term “Nagorno-Karabakh”. We heard from our grandparents that Karabakh has upper and lower layers, that there cannot be mountains without lowlands, and that lowlands cannot be without mountains. In the past, they used to say: I’m going to Barda, I’m going to Alan. It is difficult to imagine Azerbaijan without Karabakh. On the 21st, a national massacre took place in Shusha, which lasted for three days. This beautiful city, known as the Paris of the Caucasus, was burned down with a population of 45. Is this not genocide?

In his interview, Mr. Firuddin presented important information about the history of Shusha and Karabakh and believed that a major mistake of the government at that time was that the refugees expelled from Armenia were not resettled in Lachin, Shusha, Agdam and surrounding areas.

Farman Karimzadeh: “We visited the village of Nuweidi in Meghri district”

The last interview of the writer Farman Karimzadeh was published in the August 3, 1990 issue of the newspaper. The interview received some time ago was published late for some reason. Karimzadeh described the fate of Azerbaijanis expelled by Armenia and talked about the massive support provided to these people by the aid headquarters. At the same time, Mr. Farman described his visit to the areas inhabited by Western Azerbaijanis: “We recently visited the village of Nuweidi in the Meghri region. There are as many as 1,500 people in that village. They have no intention of leaving their ancestors.” The headmaster of the secondary school, Mr. Jalal, took us on a tour, and he showed us the places on the mountain one by one. This is the meadow of Hatay, this is the tomb of Babak, and this is the castle of Sultan Salim.

Allahverdi Bagirov: “None of us expected…”

A short interview with the national hero Allaverdi Bagilov appeared in the magazine Azerbaijan of May 20, 1992. In the interview as the chairman of the executive group of the Aghdam regional branch of the Justice and Development Party, he said: “Until February 1988, none of us thought that we would abandon our permanent profession and join the struggle for the freedom of our people. This was the need of the times, our lands were lost, and we could not remain indifferent to these events when there were real conditions, which made us join the ranks of children who are trying to raise the banner of freedom for our people… In this struggle we have one enemy – the Armenian bandits who have their backs on Moscow and Washington. Our goal is the same – to liberate the land of Azerbaijan from the Armenian bandits today. , our army is united in this sacred cause… When we safely rescue the hostages from the Armenians and reunite them with their loved ones, we consider ourselves the happiest people in the world. “

Allahverdi Bagirov “Who do you think is responsible for the Khojaly tragedy?” Answering the question: “After the Khojaly tragedy, this question made everyone think, everyone was looking for the culprit among us. The real culprit of this tragedy is clear to all of us. The perpetrators of this tragedy are protected mercenary Armenian thugs.” Russian soldiers … The real answer is that the Council of Deputies of the Supreme Soviet and the law enforcement agencies of the republic should be given by the security agencies, and the people should be saved from the suspicious rumors that are going on. “. At the end of the interview, which took place in Agdam on May 7, 1992, Bagirov seemed to see the near future: “There is a life-and-death struggle ahead. If we survive, if we win, we will give an interview wherever we meet. ” A month after this interview, on June 12, 1992, Allahverdi bey was martyred in the Khojaly region. The life-and-death struggle, of which he spoke, began in 2020, when, thanks to the heroism of our army, Karabakh was freed from occupation, and his soul found peace.

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