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AZERBAIJANI PROVOCATIONS IN FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AIMED AT BREAKING DOWN DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF AZERBAIJANI EMBASSY
17:48 27/02/2013 " SOCIETY
Yesterday, in one of the halls of the National Assembly of France
a conference titled "25 years after the Sumgait events: present
situation and future prospects for the people of Nagorno-Karabakh"
was held. The conference was marred by the Azerbaijani provocation.
At the end, the attendees stood to honor the memory of the victims
killed during Sumgait pogroms and kept a minute's silence. Two
Azerbaijani provocateurs, a girl and a young man, refused to stand
up and to honor the Armenian victims in Azerbaijan and started to
shout anti-Armenian slogans.
On the photos, published in "Nouvelles d'Armenie", it is obvious how
the Azerbaijani tries to provoke a fight and attacks the audience.
Azeri press disseminated false information about beating and causing
serious injuries, right up to fracturing, to provocateurs. In the
photos, published in the same Azerbaijani media, it is clearly visible
that there is no serious damage caused to both. Moreover, participants
of the provocation give contradicting evidence about the incident:
at first they say the girl was beaten together with the guy, then
they say she managed to leave the room.
Guard of the National Assembly took away the provocateurs. It is
also noteworthy that a moment later the employees of the Azerbaijani
embassy in Paris, headed by the Ambassador were at the place of the
incident which speaks of the pre-planned provocation.
Meanwhile, the Hay Dat French Bureau says: "We are dealing
with unacceptable provocation, which is aimed at disrupting the
demonstration, planned for February 28 at the Embassy of Azerbaijan.
We are intended to file a complaint against the instigators."
On 26-29 February 1988 in terms of actual complicity of local
authorities and inaction of the USSR government mass pogroms
of civilians were organized in Sumgait city of Azerbaijani SSR,
accompanied with unprecedented brutal murders, violence and pillaging
against the Armenian population of the city. Armenian pogroms in
Sumgait were carefully organized. At the meetings, which began on
February 26 in the central square, city leaders openly called for
violence against the Armenians.
On February 27 protests which were attended by hundreds of rioters
turned into violence. Armed with axes, knives, specially sharpened
rebar, rocks and cans of gasoline and with the pre-compiled lists of
apartments where Armenians lived the rioters broke into the houses,
turning everything upside down there and killing the owners. In
the same time, people were often taken out to the streets or to the
courtyard for jeering at them publicly. After painful humiliations
and torture the victims were doused with gasoline and burnt alive.
On February 29 army troops entered Sumgait but without an order to
intervene. Only in the evening, when the mad crowd began to attack
the soldiers the military units took up decisive steps.
The exact number of victims of Sumgait pogroms is still unknown.
According to official data, 32 people were killed; however there
is ample evidence that several hundred Armenians have been killed
in the city in three days. There is also evidence that the riots
were coordinated by KGB in Azerbaijan. Executioners of Sumgait were
subsequently declared as national heroes of Azerbaijan.
Documentary "Ordinary Genocide: Sumgait 1988"
Source: Panorama.am
17:48 27/02/2013 " SOCIETY
Yesterday, in one of the halls of the National Assembly of France
a conference titled "25 years after the Sumgait events: present
situation and future prospects for the people of Nagorno-Karabakh"
was held. The conference was marred by the Azerbaijani provocation.
At the end, the attendees stood to honor the memory of the victims
killed during Sumgait pogroms and kept a minute's silence. Two
Azerbaijani provocateurs, a girl and a young man, refused to stand
up and to honor the Armenian victims in Azerbaijan and started to
shout anti-Armenian slogans.
On the photos, published in "Nouvelles d'Armenie", it is obvious how
the Azerbaijani tries to provoke a fight and attacks the audience.
Azeri press disseminated false information about beating and causing
serious injuries, right up to fracturing, to provocateurs. In the
photos, published in the same Azerbaijani media, it is clearly visible
that there is no serious damage caused to both. Moreover, participants
of the provocation give contradicting evidence about the incident:
at first they say the girl was beaten together with the guy, then
they say she managed to leave the room.
Guard of the National Assembly took away the provocateurs. It is
also noteworthy that a moment later the employees of the Azerbaijani
embassy in Paris, headed by the Ambassador were at the place of the
incident which speaks of the pre-planned provocation.
Meanwhile, the Hay Dat French Bureau says: "We are dealing
with unacceptable provocation, which is aimed at disrupting the
demonstration, planned for February 28 at the Embassy of Azerbaijan.
We are intended to file a complaint against the instigators."
On 26-29 February 1988 in terms of actual complicity of local
authorities and inaction of the USSR government mass pogroms
of civilians were organized in Sumgait city of Azerbaijani SSR,
accompanied with unprecedented brutal murders, violence and pillaging
against the Armenian population of the city. Armenian pogroms in
Sumgait were carefully organized. At the meetings, which began on
February 26 in the central square, city leaders openly called for
violence against the Armenians.
On February 27 protests which were attended by hundreds of rioters
turned into violence. Armed with axes, knives, specially sharpened
rebar, rocks and cans of gasoline and with the pre-compiled lists of
apartments where Armenians lived the rioters broke into the houses,
turning everything upside down there and killing the owners. In
the same time, people were often taken out to the streets or to the
courtyard for jeering at them publicly. After painful humiliations
and torture the victims were doused with gasoline and burnt alive.
On February 29 army troops entered Sumgait but without an order to
intervene. Only in the evening, when the mad crowd began to attack
the soldiers the military units took up decisive steps.
The exact number of victims of Sumgait pogroms is still unknown.
According to official data, 32 people were killed; however there
is ample evidence that several hundred Armenians have been killed
in the city in three days. There is also evidence that the riots
were coordinated by KGB in Azerbaijan. Executioners of Sumgait were
subsequently declared as national heroes of Azerbaijan.
Documentary "Ordinary Genocide: Sumgait 1988"
Source: Panorama.am