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Soviets continue crackdown on Azerbaijanis
MOSCOW (AP) — Dozens of mutinous
Azerbaijani military cadets fired on Soviet
troops patrolling their capital Sunday, and
tens of thousands of people mourned vic
tims of a bloody crackdown on their repub
lic’s nationalist uprising.
The cadets, joined by comrades from the
neighboring Caucasus republic of Georgia,
battled for 20 minutes in the morning and
sporadically throughout the day with Soviet
soldiers at Baku’s garrison and military aca
demy, Arif Yunusov of the Azerbaijani So
cial Democratic Group reported.
and broke through barricades erected by
militants.
Sporadic fighting has continued since.
On Saturday, in the first report of soldiers
dividing along ethnic lines, a local activist
said 125 Azerbaijani soldiers fought a
pitched battle with those sent in to restore
order.
The Interior Ministry reported 51 civil
ians and six soldiers dead, and 287 civilians
and 36 soldiers wounded in Saturday’s ac
tion. That brought the total number of cas
ualties for the week at 129 dead and more
than 500 wounded.
service told the Tass news agency 57 civil
ians were killed and nearly 500 wounded in
the weekend clashes.
The downtown garrison was the scene of
some of the fiercest fighting when thou
sands of troops stormed into Baku, the
southern republic’s capital, early Saturday
Occasional shots rang out elsewhere in
Baku on Sunday, Yunusov and Radio Mos
cow reported. The activist said by tele
phone from Baku that one bullet broke a
window in his apartment building.
Rebels also have thrown grenades and
Molotov cocktails at soldiers’ military vehi
cles, the official news agency Tass said. A
correspondent for Moscow’s state-run TV
and radio service briefly was held hostage.
Activists reported much higher figures,
and Interior Ministry officials said they re
ceived too many conflicting accounts to
confidently update their figures.
Baku’s military commandant said 83 peo
ple, including 14 servicemen and their fam
ily members, were killed in fighting since
late Friday, according to a Radio Moscow
broadcast monitored by the British Broad
casting Corp. in London.
Foreign reporters were barred from Ar
menia and Azerbaijan, so it was difficult to
reconcile the conflicting information.
The chief doctor of Baku’s ambulance
Tens of thousands of Azerbaijanis gath
ered Sunday outside the Communist Party
headquarters in Baku to mourn those killed
when Soviet troops moved in, Yunusov
said. They also demanded that the state of
emergency imposed in the capital early Sat
urday be lifted and that Soviet troops pull
out, according to the Azerbaijan’s People’s
Front, which has organized anti-Armenian
protests.
Baku’s city council made identical de
mands, and the republic’s Supreme Soi g
legislature met in emergency session
agenda was not immediately clear. —
Residents said flags with black mounJ|k|_f
ribbons were draped on cars, balconies
windows throughout the city, which waf
the middle of three days of officiallyM
dared mourning. A mass funeral
scheduled Monday.
Soldiers continued to patrol theCas[
Sea port of 1.8 million people in armoi
personnel carriers.
Radio Moscow said troops arrested
people overnight for violating a curfew
part of a state of emergency. A mU
leader of Azerbaijan’s People’s Fronts;
arrested after he was found to becarryit;
homemade grenade, the broadcast said
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