Vincent C. Gray, an American politician, who is currently serving as the Mayor of the District of Columbia, issued a statement to pay an honor to the victims of the Black January.
Black January also known as Black Saturday or the January Massacre was a violent crackdown of the Azerbaijani independence movement in Baku on January 19-20, 1990, pursuant to a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
More than 130 people died from wounds received that night and during subsequent violent confrontations and incidents that lasted in February; the majority of these were civilians killed by Soviet soldiers. More than 700 civilians were wounded. Hundreds of people were detained, only a handful of whom were put on trial for alleged criminal offenses. Civil liberties were severely curtailed.
The statement says that all Azerbaijanis living in the United States mark the 21st anniversary of the Black January tragedy. The mayor urged all residents of the U.S. capital to honor the victims of the Black January.

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