Resolution passed by demonstrators on May day 1920, when the government of Armenia had just received an ultimatum from Azerbaijan to clear Karabagh and Zangezur of Armenian troops within three days
[1 May 1920]
We express our utmost outrage against the executioners who exploit the name of the Turkish peasants and workers and, in the name of Soviet authorities and Communism, continue the bloody campaign of the former regime. The laborers of Armenia extend their brotherly hand to the workers of Azerbaijan and demand an end to expeditions against Karabagh and Zangezur; they also demand that the peasantry and proletariat of those provinces be allowed to express their will. The laborers of Armenia trust that the Soviet authorities of Russia will not tolerate the aggressive policy of Azerbaijan. The workers of Armenia also demand from their government that it defend Armenia and the liberty and freedom of the Armenian proletariat and recommend that this, a resolution of the federation of workers’ unions, be communicated to the proletariat of all nations and to the socialist caucuses of European parliaments.
[Simon Vratzian, Republic of Armenia, p. 388]
The Karabagh File, Documents and Facts, 1918-1988, First Edition, Cambridge Toronto 1988, by the ZORYAN INSTITUTE, edited by: Gerard J. LIBARIDIAN, p. 30
Image – Goris in March, 2017, photo – Tatul Hakobyan
