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ARMENIANS TO RALLY AT AZERI CONSULATE IN LA TO COMMEMORATE SUMGAIT POGROMS
PanARMENIAN.Net
February 24, 2012 - 11:36 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Unified Young Armenians (UYA) has organized a
protest to mark the anniversary of the Armenian massacres in Sumgait,
Azerbaijan, and call for an end to Azerbaijan's state sponsored
campaign of hatred targeting populations of Armenia and Nagorno
Karabakh Republic
On Monday, February 27 at 10 am, UYA has planned a protest at the
Azerbaijan Consulate in Los Angeles, Asbarez reported.
The Sumgait tragedy and its bloody repetitions in Azerbaijan, lasting
through the years of 1988 to 1991, led to the disappearance of 450,000
inhabitants living in an established Armenian community in Azerbaijan.
It stimulated the military aggression against the Armenians of
Nagorno-Karabakh from 1992 until 1994, as the latter pushed for
peaceful demands for self-determination.
Dozens of Armenians were killed, majority of whom were set on fire
alive, after being beaten and tortured. Hundreds of innocent people
recieved injuries of varying severity. Women, among them minors,
were raped.
In his address to the Supreme Council of the Nagorno Karabakh
Autonomous Region, a leader of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan,
Hidayat Orujev, stated days before the massacre of Armenians in
Sumgait: "If you do not stop campaigning for the unification of
Nagorno Karabakh with Armenia, and if you do not sober up, 100,000
Azeris from neighboring districts will break into your houses, torch
your apartments, rape your women, and kill your children." This same
Orujev is currently the Chairman of the State Committee for Work and
Religious Organization for the Republic of Azerbaijan.
PanARMENIAN.Net
February 24, 2012 - 11:36 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Unified Young Armenians (UYA) has organized a
protest to mark the anniversary of the Armenian massacres in Sumgait,
Azerbaijan, and call for an end to Azerbaijan's state sponsored
campaign of hatred targeting populations of Armenia and Nagorno
Karabakh Republic
On Monday, February 27 at 10 am, UYA has planned a protest at the
Azerbaijan Consulate in Los Angeles, Asbarez reported.
The Sumgait tragedy and its bloody repetitions in Azerbaijan, lasting
through the years of 1988 to 1991, led to the disappearance of 450,000
inhabitants living in an established Armenian community in Azerbaijan.
It stimulated the military aggression against the Armenians of
Nagorno-Karabakh from 1992 until 1994, as the latter pushed for
peaceful demands for self-determination.
Dozens of Armenians were killed, majority of whom were set on fire
alive, after being beaten and tortured. Hundreds of innocent people
recieved injuries of varying severity. Women, among them minors,
were raped.
In his address to the Supreme Council of the Nagorno Karabakh
Autonomous Region, a leader of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan,
Hidayat Orujev, stated days before the massacre of Armenians in
Sumgait: "If you do not stop campaigning for the unification of
Nagorno Karabakh with Armenia, and if you do not sober up, 100,000
Azeris from neighboring districts will break into your houses, torch
your apartments, rape your women, and kill your children." This same
Orujev is currently the Chairman of the State Committee for Work and
Religious Organization for the Republic of Azerbaijan.