The Azerbaijani public organization “Protection of the Rights of Migrants and Forced Migrants in Azerbaijan” has filed a request to the Committee of the Nobel Prize for Peace. The organization wants the committee to strip Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the USSR, of the Nobel Peace Prize, APA reports.
The public organization says that Gorbachev ordered entrance of Soviet forces in Baku and other Azerbaijani forces in January 1990, violating the Constitutions of the USSR and the Azerbaijani SSR. The Soviet forces killed 170 people, most of whom were women, children, old men. Dozens were injured or went missing. Over 700 people were arrested.
The letter accuses Gorbachev of using force to help Armenia take over Nagorno-Karabakh, which resulted in a war with over 20,000 people killed, wounded, missing, hundreds of thousands people captivated. The country suffered damage totaling over $60 billion. M. Gorbachev is also responsible for the events in Vilnius, Tbilisi, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Abkhazia and Ossetia, the letter says.
The public organization wants the committee to reconsider its decision made 22 years ago and deprive Gorbachev of the award.
