A ranar 24 ga Fabrairu, an kori Boris Kevorkov, sakataren jam'iyyar yankin mai cin gashin kanta na Nagorno-Karabakh kuma mai biyayya ga Azerbaijan. Shugabannin Armeniya na Karabakh sun koka cewa yankin ba shi da littattafan koyar da harshen Armeniya a makarantu ko a watsa shirye-shiryen talabijin, kuma Sakatare Janar na Jam'iyyar Kwaminis ta Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev ya yi ƙoƙari sosai don "Azerify" yankin da haɓaka tasiri da yawan Azerbaijanis da ke zaune a Nagorno-Karabakh, yayin da a lokaci guda ya rage yawan Armeniya (a 1987, Aliyev zai sauka a matsayin Babban Sakataren Politburo na Azerbaijan). A shekara ta 1988, yawan mutanen Armeniya na Nagorno-Karabakh ya ragu zuwa kusan kashi uku cikin hudu na yawan jama'a.
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