On January 20th, 1990, Something Happened

On the right hand side of the picture is row of graves leading up to a monument commemorating Black January. Each of the people memorialized died on January 20th, 1990.

Here is a short description compliments of january.net

"Late at night on January 19, 1990, 26,000 Soviet troops stormed Baku. They acted pursuant to a state of emergency declared by the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium, signed by President Gorbachev and disclosed to the Azerbaijani public only after many citizens lay wounded or dead in the streets, hospitals and morgues of Baku."