In the late 1980s, the Soviet government committed another crime against our people.

This time, both Armenian nationalists and their patrons in the Soviet government, who took advantage of the resignation of Great Leader Heydar Aliyev, took immediate action.

APA reports that President Ilham Aliyev said this in a meeting with a group of intellectuals from Western Azerbaijan.

"Two weeks after Heydar Aliyev was removed from all positions in November 1987, Armenian nationalists rose up.

The Soviet government supported them and another crime was started against our people both in Karabakh and in the former Republic of Armenia.

Azerbaijanis were deported from the historical land of West Azerbaijan, and we know and remember this history well, and we also know the number of places where Azerbaijanis lived - only Azerbaijanis lived in more than 170 villages.

I mean the former Armenia, I mean the Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijanis were the majority in about 90 villages, and Azerbaijanis lived in more than 300 towns and villages.

All of them were forced out of Armenia for 3 years, expelled, many of them were killed, they were tortured."

The president noted that all these crimes took place in front of the eyes of the Soviet government.

Our last village, Nuvedi, was deported in August 1991.