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SUMGAIT IS UNPUNISHED EVIL BASED ON 24 YEARS OF LIE
arminfo
Tuesday, February 28, 12:56
24 years ago, on 27-29 Feb 1988, the events that happened in the
industrial town of Sumgait (at 25 km from Baku), part of the Soviet
Union at that time, led to the death of hundreds of peaceful and
innocent Armenians. Today, many people in the world qualify those
horrible events as genocide, and many people, for instance, in Baku
think that Armenians were killing themselves. However, like in many
other cases, the truth is one and it is not subject to interpretation.
In the case of Sumgait, it is reflected by the murders of hundreds
of people, and the murders became possible due to some people's big
hunger for power amid the unjustified weakness and indifference of
the people who had the power at that time.
The Sumgait massacre of Armenians was committed in response to the
Karabakh people's legitimate expression of will for reunification
with the Armenian SSR. The mass pogroms of Armenians in Sumgait
were accompanied by mass violence against the Armenian population,
robberies, murders, rapes, arsons and destruction of property.
Actually, the Sumgait massacre led to aggravation of the first conflict
between the nations of the Transcaucasus and caused the first flows
of Armenian refugees from Sumgait to Stepanakert and Armenia.
According to official data, 26 Armenians were killed and more than 100
were wounded, though experts estimated that the death toll was about
200. All this medieval vandalism took place amid full paralyzation of
the local authorities in Sumgait and Baku and the central authorities
in Moscow.
The Communist Party of Azerbaijan represented by Kyamran Bagirov and
the Communist Party of the USSR in the person of Mikhail Gorbachyov
only called for calmness and did not even consider the reasons of
what was going on. The law-enforcers did not take any actions, and
only the delayed deployment of internal troops was able to stop the
extermination of people and to save the few alive Armenians.
At the session of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of the USSR in Moscow on 29 Feb 1988, the
supreme legislative body of the country officially stated that the
killings in Sumgait were on ethnic grounds. Afterwards, dozens of
organizers of this tragedy appeared before Soviet courts, but only
one of them was sentenced to life imprisonment. Later, however,
he was released. In the meantime, the real organizers and murderers
of hundreds of peaceful Armenians, particularly, the leadership of
the People's Front of Azerbaijan and personally Abulfaz Elchibey not
only evaded punishment, but further came to power with chauvinism and
continued to heat up anti-Armenian moods in the Azerbaijani society.
Later, it was this impunity that led to reoccurrence of genocidal
actions in Baku, Maragha, and in dozens of peaceful villages and towns
populated with Armenians. Twenty-four years have passed since the
tragic days in Sumgait. The system of values of the wild bandits, who
were killing and burning Armenians those days, is currently striking
roots in the state policy of Azerbaijan with every passing day...
arminfo
Tuesday, February 28, 12:56
24 years ago, on 27-29 Feb 1988, the events that happened in the
industrial town of Sumgait (at 25 km from Baku), part of the Soviet
Union at that time, led to the death of hundreds of peaceful and
innocent Armenians. Today, many people in the world qualify those
horrible events as genocide, and many people, for instance, in Baku
think that Armenians were killing themselves. However, like in many
other cases, the truth is one and it is not subject to interpretation.
In the case of Sumgait, it is reflected by the murders of hundreds
of people, and the murders became possible due to some people's big
hunger for power amid the unjustified weakness and indifference of
the people who had the power at that time.
The Sumgait massacre of Armenians was committed in response to the
Karabakh people's legitimate expression of will for reunification
with the Armenian SSR. The mass pogroms of Armenians in Sumgait
were accompanied by mass violence against the Armenian population,
robberies, murders, rapes, arsons and destruction of property.
Actually, the Sumgait massacre led to aggravation of the first conflict
between the nations of the Transcaucasus and caused the first flows
of Armenian refugees from Sumgait to Stepanakert and Armenia.
According to official data, 26 Armenians were killed and more than 100
were wounded, though experts estimated that the death toll was about
200. All this medieval vandalism took place amid full paralyzation of
the local authorities in Sumgait and Baku and the central authorities
in Moscow.
The Communist Party of Azerbaijan represented by Kyamran Bagirov and
the Communist Party of the USSR in the person of Mikhail Gorbachyov
only called for calmness and did not even consider the reasons of
what was going on. The law-enforcers did not take any actions, and
only the delayed deployment of internal troops was able to stop the
extermination of people and to save the few alive Armenians.
At the session of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of the USSR in Moscow on 29 Feb 1988, the
supreme legislative body of the country officially stated that the
killings in Sumgait were on ethnic grounds. Afterwards, dozens of
organizers of this tragedy appeared before Soviet courts, but only
one of them was sentenced to life imprisonment. Later, however,
he was released. In the meantime, the real organizers and murderers
of hundreds of peaceful Armenians, particularly, the leadership of
the People's Front of Azerbaijan and personally Abulfaz Elchibey not
only evaded punishment, but further came to power with chauvinism and
continued to heat up anti-Armenian moods in the Azerbaijani society.
Later, it was this impunity that led to reoccurrence of genocidal
actions in Baku, Maragha, and in dozens of peaceful villages and towns
populated with Armenians. Twenty-four years have passed since the
tragic days in Sumgait. The system of values of the wild bandits, who
were killing and burning Armenians those days, is currently striking
roots in the state policy of Azerbaijan with every passing day...