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SATENIK ABGARYAN: NKR DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY IS TRIBUTE TO VICTIMS OF SUMGAIT MASSACRE
16:17 27/02/2013 " SOCIETY
A dead office dedicated to the victims of Sumgait massacre, that
took place in 1988, on February 27-29, was held in Armenian St. Hakob
church of Geneva. At the cross stone (khachkar) that is installed in
the churchyard ceremony of wreath installment has been taken place.
Representatives of Swiss-Armenian community have attended the event.
According to the RA MFA press and information department the
documentary "Ordinary Genocide" has been presented before which father
of St. Hakob Church Ter Hayrik HOvhannisyan and RA envoy and Minister
Plenipotentiary Satenik Abgaryan made speech.
Satenik Abgaryan has noticed in her speech that the Sumgait pogroms
were the continuation of ethnic cleansing that have been implemented
by the Azerbaijani authorities for years. Violence was shown over the
self-determination right of NKR people which, however, didn't break
the will of the people who decided to stand for their independence.
Development and prosperity of NKR is a tribute to victims of Sumgait
massacre.
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
From: A. Papazian
16:17 27/02/2013 " SOCIETY
A dead office dedicated to the victims of Sumgait massacre, that
took place in 1988, on February 27-29, was held in Armenian St. Hakob
church of Geneva. At the cross stone (khachkar) that is installed in
the churchyard ceremony of wreath installment has been taken place.
Representatives of Swiss-Armenian community have attended the event.
According to the RA MFA press and information department the
documentary "Ordinary Genocide" has been presented before which father
of St. Hakob Church Ter Hayrik HOvhannisyan and RA envoy and Minister
Plenipotentiary Satenik Abgaryan made speech.
Satenik Abgaryan has noticed in her speech that the Sumgait pogroms
were the continuation of ethnic cleansing that have been implemented
by the Azerbaijani authorities for years. Violence was shown over the
self-determination right of NKR people which, however, didn't break
the will of the people who decided to stand for their independence.
Development and prosperity of NKR is a tribute to victims of Sumgait
massacre.
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
From: A. Papazian