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| | QARA YANVAR: Black January 20, 1990 |
 | | January 20, 1990, became a national tragedy, victims of which represented Azerbaijan’s diverse and multi-cultural society. |
 | | While the events of January 20 in Baku were unprecedented by their scale and brutality, they were preceded by earlier attacks on civilians in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1986 and 1989 respectively, and were followed by use of force in Vilnius, Lithuania, and the unsuccessful Coup d'Etat in Moscow in 1991. |
 | | Every year on January 20 citizens of now independent Azerbaijan pay their tribute to those who gave their lives for the country's independence. |
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