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    IN UKRAINE, NEW YORK, NETHERLANDS CONTINUE EVENTS IN MEMORY OF VICTIMS OF SUMGAIT POGROMS

    http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2013/02/28/simgait1/
    20:58 28/02/2013 " SOCIETY

    In Ukraine, in New York, in Netherlands continue events dedicated to
    the 25th anniversary of "Sumgait" massacres taken place on February
    26-29 in 1988. Today Armenian youth organizations in Kiev and Odessa
    have organized a number of events: panel discussions and screenings
    of documentary films.

    Yesterday in New York an event titled "Nagorno Karabakh: from Sumgait
    memories to an independent state" was held.

    The public organization "Armenian Center of programs development"
    reports that the attendees of the event got acquainted with the first
    exhibition devoted to the past and present of Artsakh, then watched
    a documentary film "Ordinary Genocide. Sumgait 1988."

    In the Netherlands participants of the rally protested, holding
    posters reading "Sumgait, Baku, Maragha, Kirovabad stop Azerbaijani
    aggression," "Self-determination for Nagorno-Karabakh," "We will not
    forget the Sumgait pogroms."

    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"

    http://karabakhrecords.info/gallery/an-ordinary-genocide-sumgait-february-1988-eng/



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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