Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba R u ancient feuds run deep trans caucasians have Short Long memories by Warren Tarapata the Canadian press the people of Tran embroiled in what has become a virtual civil can Trace their foots Back to Noah and the Ark and can Trace their feuds Back almost As the current crisis started two years ago As a fight Between armenians and azerbaijanis for control of a Small piece of azerbaijani real estate known As it erupted last week into open War fare Between the two communities and now has turned into into a full scale revolt by azerbaijanis against soviet fighting in Baku in the Azerbaijan capital of invaded late Friday night by soviet fighting is still going on be tween red army soldiers and azerbaijani irregulars and masses of people Are ignoring martial Law de crees to demand the withdrawal of Moscow in the Azerbaijan province of Nak along the iranian Independence has been declared and people move freely across the fron tier into in fighters known As fedayeen Are being often with weapons stolen from military bases and police and sent to Magorno Karabash and to areas of the armenian Border with a Erbai it has become the gravest crisis soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has faced and shows no sign that it can easily be resolved except through Force of As Gorbachev noted earlier this the roots of the turmoil go Back through the years to Stalin and the Early Days of soviet Power Back to czarist Back through the Transcaucasia is where Europe meets a mountainous land be tween the Caspian and Black subtropical along the forbid Ding and cold in the harsh landscape of the it takes its name from the caucasus Mountain Range that divides the Region from the russian Steppes to the it lies on the silk route that brought asias treasures to it spawned its own powerful King Doms and fell victim to the empires of from Alexander the great to Tamerlane of the mongol horde who had a Hunting Reserve Northwest of it is Kilometres from Moscow to a major Oil refining Centre on the Caspian sea and the fifth Lar Gest City in the with million its Only 550 Kilometres from Tehran to Baku and there hangs part of the for this was once a part of a great and Lon lived persian pm disputed Over the centuries by the Oil Springs of Baku gave Comfort to persian fire worshippers and gave use to the name a Erbai which Means land of Moscow in the time scale of is the armies of Czar Nicholas annexed Azerbaijan and Armenia in after defeating the persians who then held peopled by came More willingly to russian arms than did the azeris As the armenians sought the Protection of the Only other Christian Power in the Region against its Muslim Mountain Peoples As the meeting Point of Europe and Asia and a traditional route of Trade and Transcaucasia is a Patchwork of Peoples and language and tradition and its like Many Mountain Are suspicious of outsiders and Harbor Long the armenians Are a race that dates its origins to who landed his Ark on mount now in and so legend has it it has shown itself or Eri from whence comes the name of capital about 50 kilo metres away from it has an ancient its own its own Branch of christianity and lays claim to be the oldest Christian land in the the azeris Are ethnic related by culture and language to the people of Central Asia who moved Westward in the great turkic migrations beginning in the sixth Century that engulfed the lands Between Mongolia and what now is xxx on on now til january specially ordered specially priced limited quantities first come first served basis not Holmi Trifid 1990 civic incredible Price Standard Model includes dual Point fuel soc 16 valve engine front rear double Wishbone suspension rear Gas pressurized Shock absorbers Power assisted ventilated disc Brake front Goodyear All season tires trip odometer floor console Remote Hatch release plus freight and Poi Remote fuel lid release tinted Glass rear window defroster protective body Side front 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dictator Nicolae Down with communism and Down with the Securi Tate secret chanted the the demonstration was organized by the newly formed league of Stu which Aims to revitalize romanian education after More than 40 years of communist the students held a on minute silence to mourn those who died in the anti Ceausescu uprising in late the country new leaders face a rough Road in leading 23 million people into an Era of democracy and economic some Western diplomats also fear a Witch Hunt with eagerly awaited trials of henchmen of Ceausescu expected to open within Days after two weeks of the trials will be easy to Start but very hard to a Western ambassador the 145man National salvation which took control after the 22 overthrow of has taken a sometimes shaky grip on authority in but considerable confusion is Evi Dent in the provinces where local people have sometimes challenged the credentials of front members at municipal and county at the National there seems to be Broad acceptance of the fronts emphasis on human rights and democracy and its Quick move to satisfy the food and heating needs of a Long deprived the biggest improvements Are evident in Bucharest and members of the fronts 11member executive committee have yet to tour outside the initial stress has been placed on the described by Premier Petre roman As a because of the falsification of virtually All statistics under executed with his on the government has faced Mammoth problems in assessing just what Romania has and the country is also coming to grips with rumours and Exa Gera the official death toll in the fight ing that toppled Ceausescu last month is but the police chief in the Western transylvanian town where the revolution said saturday about 100 peo ple died not the or so earlier multiparty system demanded Moscow a a group of communist party members formed a faction yesterday and said they will work for a multiparty political a total of 175 members from across the country wound up a two Day meeting 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