Beginning of Professional Military Career
Due to the escalating situation in Karabakh, in 1990 the Takamul party had turned into an official military organization known as HTPD or more popularly by its Russian acronym OMON. It was later later renamed the 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 Karabakh led by OPON forces against Russian mercenaries and Armenian forces, the provisional government in 1991 proclaimed OPON members National Heroes.
In 1993, Javadov was appointed Deputy 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 Karabakh, Javadov traveled to Afghanistan in 1993 and returned with 1,300 experienced Afghan mujahideen.
In 1993, after personally regrouping most of Interior Ministry forces and OPON forces, he launched the most successful military assault on Karabakhi-Armenians fighters in Askeran. Simultaneously he organized the military offensive in Fizuli which was halted after two weeks when the Popular Front government was overthrown by Colonel Suret Huseynov.
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