NKR PARLIAMENT MEMBERS APPEAL TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO
CONSIDER ARMENIAN MASSACRES IN SHUSHI 85 YEARS AGO AS GENOCIDE
STEPANAKERT, MARCH 23. ARMINFO. Regular plenary sitting of National
Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was held Thursday. ARMINFO’s
own correspondent in Stepanakert informs with reference to the press
office of NKR parliament, at the beginning of the sitting in
commemoration of the 85th anniversary of the massacres in the town of
Shushi the parliament read the statement, saying: “85 years passed
since the tragic events took place on March 23 at the beginning of
the twentieth century – the massacres of the population of the former
administrative center of the region – the towns of Shushi and
bordering Armenian villages. The authorities of the Azerbaijani
Democratic Republic perpetrated this monstrous crime, as a result of
which over 30,000 peaceful citizens became victims. The authorities
of Azerbaijan acted under the direct patronage and assistance o the
Turkish expeditionary corps, which was in the territory of
Azerbaijan. As a matter of fact the March slaughter of the Armenian
population of Shushi was continued by means of various forms of
ethnic cleaning during all the years of existence of Nagorny Karabakh
as a part of Azerbaijan and was finished by mass deportation of the
last Armenian residents in 1988. Condemning the massacres of the
Armenian population of the town of Shushi and bordering villages on
March 23, 1920, National Assembly of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
appeals to the international community with a call to consider this
bloody event as an act of genocide”.
During the sitting MPs also adopted the bills on notarial office, on
referendum, on amending the law on the charter of national assembly
and others.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress