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((Short description|Azerbaijani military officer))
((more citations needed|date=September 2008))
((Infobox military person
| name        = Rovshan Javadov<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/141994/|title = В Азербайджане осужден экс-командир отряда полиции, обвиняемый в попытке госпереворота))</ref>
| image       = Ровшан Джавадов.jpg 
| alt         = 
| caption     = Rovshan Javadov at his hq
| birth_date  =  ((birth date|1951|10|19))
| birth_place = [[Lachin]], [[Azerbaijan SSR]], [[USSR]]
| death_date  = ((death date and age|1995|03|17|1951|10|19))
| death_place = [[Baku]], [[Azerbaijan]]
| birth_name  = Rövşən Bəxtiyar oğlu Cavadov
| other_names = 
| allegiance  = ((flag|Azerbaijan))
| battles     = [[Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)]]<br>[[First Nagorno-Karabakh War]]<br>[[1995 Azerbaijani coup d'état attempt]]
| serviceyears = 1973-1992
| known_for   = 
| rank        = [[Colonel]]
| occupation  = 
))
'''Rovshan Bakhtiyar oghlu Javadov ''' (((lang-az|Rövşən Bəxtiyar oğlu Cavadov)), 19 October 1951 – March 17, 1995<ref name="lt">((cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/22723287.html?dids=22723287:22723287&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+18,+1995&author=SONNI+EFRON&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Azerbaijan+Coup+Attempt+Crushed+Caucasus:+Loyal+forces+storm+a+building+and+overcome+mutinous+police+units,+president+reports.&pqatl=google|title=Azerbaijan Coup Attempt Crushed Caucasus: Loyal forces storm a building and overcome mutinous police units, president reports.|date=18 March 1995|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=2009-08-15 | first=Sonni | last=Efron))</ref>) was an officer in the [[Azerbaijani Armed Forces]] and the chief of the [[Special Purpose Police Unit (Azerbaijan)|Special Purpose Police Detachment]] of [[Azerbaijan]] (OPON).<ref name="bbc">((cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F97DB500B7A486B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Azeri rights activist says 35 imprisoned special police unit members very sick|date=June 2, 2000 |publisher=BBC Archive|accessdate=2009-08-15))</ref> 

Born in what was then part of the [[Soviet Union]]. He took on an early role in the early years of the newly independent Azerbaijan, becoming the leader of OPON, a military police unit of a few thousand people. The creation of the organization would lead to clashes with President [[Heydar Aliyev]]. In 1995, this conflict with Aliyev would eventually culminate into an [[1995 Azerbaijani coup d'état attempt|attempted coup]] against Aliyev, which would fail and lead to a siege of OPON headquarters. During the siege, Javadov was shot and eventually died of his wounds.

== Early life ==
Rovshan Javadov was born on 19 October 1951 in [[Lachin]]. In 1973, he graduated from [[Azerbaijan State Medical University]]. In 1973-1976 he worked as a surgeon in the Interior Ministry Hospital of [[Azerbaijan SSR]]. In 1976, Rovshan Javadov entered [[Soviet Union|the USSR]] Interior Ministry Military Academy in [[Rostov, Yaroslavl Oblast|Rostov]] from which he graduated in 1980.

==Early political career==

After completing his military education in 1980 he volunteered for service in [[Afghanistan]].
 
In 1982 Rovshan Javadov became the Police Inspector of [[Ganja, Azerbaijan|Ganja]]. In 1987,  Rovshan Javadov, organized the underground Takamul ("Evolution") Party in the [[Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast|NKAO]] and Ganja with his brother [[Mahir Javadov]].

In 1989, the Takamul Party established military units which were composed of Azerbaijanis as well as of Rovshan's karate students. In January 1990, Soviet troops [[Black January|took control of Azerbaijan]] and fighting broke out in Baku and other cities between the [[Popular Front of Azerbaijan]] activists whom Rovshan Javadov helped train and Soviet troops. The Soviets quickly took over Baku. Javadov planned to withdraw to Ganja with his supporters and proclaim Ganja a [[capital city]] and resume fighting the occupation.((citation needed|date=November 2022)) However, Soviet troops withdrew by mid-March.

==Beginning of professional military career==
Due to the escalating situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, in 1990 the Takamul party had turned into an official military organization known as HTPD or more popularly by its [[Russian language|Russian]] acronym [[OMON]]. It was later renamed the [[Special Purpose Police Unit (Azerbaijan)|OPON]] (Special Purpose Police Unit). That same year Rovshan Javadov became Supreme Commander of OPON and rose to the rank of [[colonel]] the [[Azerbaijani Armed Forces]]. Due to successful operations in Nagorno-Karabakh led by OPON forces against Russian and local Armenian forces((Citation needed|date=July 2010)), the provisional government in 1991 proclaimed OPON members [[National Hero of Azerbaijan|National Heroes]].((citation needed|date=November 2022))

In 1993, Javadov was appointed Deputy [[Minister of Internal Affairs (Azerbaijan)|Minister of the Interior]] in the Popular Front government and was elected as a Chairman of the [[Azerbaijan Youth Movement]]. As the fighting was escalating in Nagorno-Karabakh, Javadov travelled to Afghanistan in 1993 and returned with 1,300 experienced Afghan [[mujahideen]].

In 1993, after personally regrouping most of the Interior Ministry forces and OPON forces, he launched the most successful military assault on Armenians from Artsakh in [[Askeran Region|Askeran]].((Citation needed|date=July 2010)) Simultaneously he organized the military offensive in [[Fuzuli District|Fizuli]] which was halted after two weeks when the Popular Front government was overthrown by Colonel [[Suret Huseynov]].

==Political career==
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After the overthrow of [[President of Azerbaijan|President]] [[Abulfaz Elchibey]] who led the People Front government, Suret Huseynov and Javadov welcomed the return of [[KGB]] General [[Heydar Aliyev]] to Baku. Huseynov and Javadov supported Aliyev in the 1993 presidential elections, and he was victorious. In the summer of 1993, Suret Huseynov's Ganja Brigade seized 10 villages from Armenians in the Karabakh zone.((Citation needed|date=July 2010)) After this operation Huseynov was officially proclaimed a National Hero and appointed a [[Prime Minister of Azerbaijan]]. The same year Javadov was offered the medal of a national hero, but he refused to accept it until Azerbaijan would fully occupy Nagorno-Karabakh and the independence of an Azerbaijan Republic was fully secure.

Huseynov and Javadov began to purchase arms for the Azerbaijani Armed Forces and restarted the Fizuli offensive in January 1994. Three weeks later, the Fizuli offensive was halted by Heydar Aliyev as he secretly agreed to hidden negotiations with Russian and Armenian officials in order to solidify his grip on power in Azerbaijan.((Citation needed|date=July 2010)) The result of Aliev's negotiations came to be known to the public as the [[Bishkek Protocol]] in May 1994.

==Political rebellion==
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Rovshan Javadov and Suret Husseynov publicly opposed the [[Bishkek]] deal and threatened to start military operations if Russian troops were to come to [[Azerbaijan]] as called for in the treaty. The political outrage caused by the potential return of Russian troops to Azerbaijan forced Heydar Aliev and [[Boris Yeltsin]] to amend that part of the treaty. In June 1994 Javadov announced his aim to run for the November 1995 parliamentary elections in which he would represent the opposition block to the authoritarian rule of Heydar Aliyev. In August 1994 he announced a plan to impeach Heydar Aliyev once he won the elections to the parliament.

==October 1994 events==
After Javadov proclaimed his opposition towards Heydar Aliyev's rule, Javadov became the main target of Aliyev's system.

On 30 September 1994, Deputy Chairman of Parliament [[Affiadin Jalilov]] and Chief of Military Intelligence [[Shamsi Rahimov]] were assassinated next to their place of residence.

On 1 October the older brother of Rovshan Javadov, District Attorney [[Mahir Javadov]], was accused of ordering the assassination and three OPON members were arrested without any evidence. One was the personal bodyguard and a driver of Mahir Javadov, an officer of OPON Elchin Aliyev. Mahir Javadov publicly challenged the charges against him and called for an objective investigation and an immediate release of the OPON members.

The day after Mahir Javadov's statements he was invited by Chief Attorney [[Ali Omarov]] to the headquarters of the Attorney General's office to explain what had happened. At the Attorney General's office, a secret and illegal attempt was made by presidential guards to arrest Javadov. Mahir Javadov resisted the arrest and with eight members of his security personnel from OPON quickly disarmed the forty-five presidential guards. Javadov arrested Omarov and others who were executing the illegal arrest warrant apparently issued by Aliyev. As soon as the news of the events spread, most of the National Army rebelled and OPON fighters seized most government buildings and openly challenged the authoritarian rule of Aliyev. Aliyev was forced to back down and blamed Prime Minister Suret Husseynov for causing chaos in the country. After two days of negotiations, Aliyev convinced Javadov that he had nothing to do with the arrest of the OPON members. To avoid civil war, Javadov agreed to peace and released all captured members of Aliev's militia.

After October 1994, Mahir Javadov was forced to resign as an attorney and was elected as a Chairman of the Independent Traders Union of Azerbaijan. Two of the three OPON members were immediately released from illegal detention. Suret Husseynov was also forced to resign and after an attempt to kill him he escaped to Russia where he was hiding until 1997. He was later arrested and extradited to Azerbaijan where he spent six years in prison.

==March 1995 events==
((main|1995 Azeri coup d'état attempt))
On 13 March 1995, metal products worth a substantial amount of money belonging to one of the companies which was a member of Independent Traders Union of Azerbaijan were illegally seized by the members of Azerbaijani Secret Service loyal to Heydar Aliyev in Gazakh and Agstafa regions of [[Azerbaijan]]. OPON members were accused of involvement in illegal cross-border trafficking even though the goods were seized within the territory of Azerbaijan.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.saferworld.org.uk/resources/publications/64-the-caucasus-armed-and-divided|title=Publications|website=www.saferworld.org.uk|accessdate=Dec 4, 2022))</ref> Presidential Guard members attacked OPON bases in [[Agstafa]] and [[Gazakh]]. They were quickly decimated and their commanders captured by OPON forces which were led by regional OPON commander [[Elchin Amiraslanov]]. The same afternoon Aliyev contacted Javadov and asked him to travel to Gazakh to settle the dispute.  Aliyev accused Javadov of the unconstitutional action of "hijacking" the role of the Commander in Chief which is reserved for the President of the country.

Javadov ordered Elchin Amiraslanov to release all Presidential Guard captives. Javadov immediately returned to Baku to organize OPON reinforcements along the front lines. Upon his arrival in [[Baku]] he went straight to OPON headquarters and held a meeting of the OPON Command Council. During the meeting, the OPON base was surrounded by Presidential Guards. Aliyev accused Rovshan and Mahir Javadov of plotting a coup d'état and sent the pro-Aliyev militia to attack Javadov's residence in Baku under the command of [[Maharam Aliyev]].  The security personnel of Mahir Javadov, along with twenty OPON fighters who were in the area, counterattacked and blocked Maheram Aliyev inside a school which was used as an operational headquarters by the pro-Aliyev militia. On the early morning of 14 March, Rovshan Javadov ordered Mahir Javadov to come to OPON headquarters on the outskirts of Baku. As Mahir Javadov arrived at OPON headquarters, the pro-Aliyev militia under the command of [[Rovshan Akperov]], [[Najmedin Sadiqov]] and [[Madat Guliyev]] attacked OPON headquarters. After a 24-hour gun battle, the militia had still not taken the base so they began a siege. Rovshan Javadov tried to use diplomatic means to end the bloodshed and prevent a civil war. Javadov agreed to the negotiations set up by the President of [[Turkey]], [[Süleyman Demirel|Suleiman Demirel]], to meet Heydar Aliyev at 8:00 am on 17 March and end the dispute peacefully.

On his way to meet Aliyev, Javadov was wounded by the pro-Aliyev militia and was taken to the Interior Ministry Hospital by his security personnel. Upon his arrival at the hospital, Presidential Guards arrested all five OPON soldiers guarding Javadov and prevented the doctors from giving medical aid to him. Javadov died of his wounds on 17 March 1995.

The brother of Rovshan Javadov, Mahir Javadov, escaped to Austria where he was given political asylum in 1996. In 1998 Mahir Javadov moved to Iran where he remained until January 2003.

== References ==
((Reflist))

==External links==
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*[http://segodnia.ru/?part=article_print&id=141 segodnia.ru]
*[http://www.day.az/news/politics/2888.html www.day.az]
*[http://javadovlar.blogspot.com/ Mahir Javadov's blog]
*[https://www.saferworld.org.uk/resources/publications/64-the-caucasus-armed-and-divided Publications www.saferworld.org.uk]

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