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  • Commemoration of the victims of pogroms in Sumgait

    Aysor, Armenia
    Feb 27 2010


    Commemoration of the victims of pogroms in Sumgait


    Today in Armenia commemorated the victims of Sumgait pogroms. The
    representatives of younger generation with the lighted candles in
    their hands proceeded by a march to the memorial of the victims of the
    Armenian Genocide, to "Tsitsernakaberd, where they laid flowers at the
    cross stone set in memory of innocent victims.

    The initiator of the march is a youth organization "Miasin"
    (`Together'). The Participants will lay flowers also at the monument
    of the victims of the Holocaust.

    They are also intended to deliver a letter to the Yerevan Office of
    UN, OSCE, Council of Europe, demanding an appropriate assessment to
    the events that occurred 22 years ago in the Azerbaijani city Sumgait.

    "On behalf of the young people of Armenia, we urge the international
    community to duly assess the ongoing crime, to recognize those events
    as genocide in order to prevent the recurrence of similar crimes in
    the future, because as the history has shown such crimes occurred also
    after 1988," - said Gevorg Vardanyan, the member of the organization
    `Miasin'.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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