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Another strong condemnation of provocations implemented in National
Assembly of France by Azerbaijani students
http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2013/03/02/france-deputy/
01:21 02/03/2013 » REGION
French media published a statement by the MP of the French Parliament,
the president of the parliamentary friendship group "France-Armenia"
René Rouquet in connection with the conference titled `25 years after
the Sumgait events: present situation and future prospects for the
people of Nagorno-Karabakh'.
The statement says,
"The conference, which was attended by numerous French
parliamentarians, was held in very good conditions. A documentary
film, which tells about the events that took place on the 26th, 27th
and 28th of February in Sumgait, was presented. After that, I made a
speech, chairman of the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations
of France Mourad Papazian, the representatives of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Hovhannes Grigoryan, Armenian Ambassador to France Vigen Chitchyan too
made speeches. After the conference, when the leaders were asked to
honor the victims of the massacre with a moment of silence, the two
people started to make noise and announced anti-Armenian slogans.
Because of this shameful behavior, and after physical threats towards
one of the organizers, the passions rose and the crush began.
It is clear that questions arise about the real motives of the two
personalities, who most probably, have not come to honor the victims,
but to escalate nationalistic passions. I condemn with the utmost
rigor such a low and unacceptable act which brings respect neither to
its performers, nor to the organizers. I have always spoken about the
Nagorno-Karabakh from the standpoint of peace and dialogue, and such
incidents should not distract us from the real goals of this
conference which is to give the people of Artsakh satisfactory
prospects for the future.'
Earlier, the member of parliament of France, Henri Gibrail and deputy
chairman of the Department Council of the Bouches du Rhone Christoph
Mass also issued a joint statement regarding the recent provocations.
The statement said in particular: `The incident that took place in the
Supreme Court in the Republic of France is provocation and disrespect,
which the two so-called Azerbaijani students showed. This is an
encroachment on freedom of speech. These unacceptable actions prove
once again that the activists feel absolutely unpunished being fed by
anti-Armenian propaganda of Azerbaijan and President Ilham Aliyev.
Republic of France cannot allow the outside forces to penetrate into
our country and manipulate it and introduce here the anti-Armenian,
racist moods. At the threshold of the 100th anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide it has become necessity for France to reassert its
sovereign authority and defended trampled memory of the Armenian
community of France. President F. Hollande took over this
responsibility in his campaign. Adoption of a law criminalizing denial
of the Armenian Genocide will be just that powerful action that will
allow both to defend the memory of Armenians and preserve civil peace
in our country. "
On December 22, 2011 bill criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial in
France was unanimously approved by French Parliament in 2-hour-long
discussions (including the Armenian Genocide including in the Ottoman
Empire in 1915.). Bill introduced by MP Valerie Boyer (UMP) envisaged
a 45000 euro fine and a one-year imprisonment in case of denial of the
Armenian Genocide. Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero noted
that the bill is a parliamentary initiative, which fits into the
context of "punishment and nihilistic racist statements." On 23
January 2012 the upper house of the French parliament (Senate)
accepted the bill with 127 votes "for" and 86 "against." Later,
complaint was lodged against this bill to the Constitutional Council
of France, which was later recognized as unconstitutional.
On 26 February, in 2013, 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.
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/
Source: Panorama.a
Assembly of France by Azerbaijani students
http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2013/03/02/france-deputy/
01:21 02/03/2013 » REGION
French media published a statement by the MP of the French Parliament,
the president of the parliamentary friendship group "France-Armenia"
René Rouquet in connection with the conference titled `25 years after
the Sumgait events: present situation and future prospects for the
people of Nagorno-Karabakh'.
The statement says,
"The conference, which was attended by numerous French
parliamentarians, was held in very good conditions. A documentary
film, which tells about the events that took place on the 26th, 27th
and 28th of February in Sumgait, was presented. After that, I made a
speech, chairman of the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations
of France Mourad Papazian, the representatives of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Hovhannes Grigoryan, Armenian Ambassador to France Vigen Chitchyan too
made speeches. After the conference, when the leaders were asked to
honor the victims of the massacre with a moment of silence, the two
people started to make noise and announced anti-Armenian slogans.
Because of this shameful behavior, and after physical threats towards
one of the organizers, the passions rose and the crush began.
It is clear that questions arise about the real motives of the two
personalities, who most probably, have not come to honor the victims,
but to escalate nationalistic passions. I condemn with the utmost
rigor such a low and unacceptable act which brings respect neither to
its performers, nor to the organizers. I have always spoken about the
Nagorno-Karabakh from the standpoint of peace and dialogue, and such
incidents should not distract us from the real goals of this
conference which is to give the people of Artsakh satisfactory
prospects for the future.'
Earlier, the member of parliament of France, Henri Gibrail and deputy
chairman of the Department Council of the Bouches du Rhone Christoph
Mass also issued a joint statement regarding the recent provocations.
The statement said in particular: `The incident that took place in the
Supreme Court in the Republic of France is provocation and disrespect,
which the two so-called Azerbaijani students showed. This is an
encroachment on freedom of speech. These unacceptable actions prove
once again that the activists feel absolutely unpunished being fed by
anti-Armenian propaganda of Azerbaijan and President Ilham Aliyev.
Republic of France cannot allow the outside forces to penetrate into
our country and manipulate it and introduce here the anti-Armenian,
racist moods. At the threshold of the 100th anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide it has become necessity for France to reassert its
sovereign authority and defended trampled memory of the Armenian
community of France. President F. Hollande took over this
responsibility in his campaign. Adoption of a law criminalizing denial
of the Armenian Genocide will be just that powerful action that will
allow both to defend the memory of Armenians and preserve civil peace
in our country. "
On December 22, 2011 bill criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial in
France was unanimously approved by French Parliament in 2-hour-long
discussions (including the Armenian Genocide including in the Ottoman
Empire in 1915.). Bill introduced by MP Valerie Boyer (UMP) envisaged
a 45000 euro fine and a one-year imprisonment in case of denial of the
Armenian Genocide. Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero noted
that the bill is a parliamentary initiative, which fits into the
context of "punishment and nihilistic racist statements." On 23
January 2012 the upper house of the French parliament (Senate)
accepted the bill with 127 votes "for" and 86 "against." Later,
complaint was lodged against this bill to the Constitutional Council
of France, which was later recognized as unconstitutional.
On 26 February, in 2013, 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.
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/
Source: Panorama.a