SUMGAYIT MASSACRES WERE CONTINUATION OF TURKISH PLAN AIMED AT EXTERMINATION OF ARMENIANS, HRAYR ULUBABIAN SAYS

Noyan Tapan
Feb 28 2007

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 28, NOYAN TAPAN. More Armenians were killed as a
result of slaughters in 1988 in Sumgayit lasting 3-4 days, than it
is presented by official data. Publicist Hrayr Ulubabian, head of
the Action Committee on Protection of Rights of Sumgayit Armenians,
reported this at the February 28 press conference. In his words, many
eye-witnesses of massacres told him that Azerbaijanis set cars to fire,
in each of which there was not one but several Armenians. And as a
Russian girl witnessed, they threw the corpses of killed Armenians
into pits by dump tracks. So, as the publicist affirmed, the number
of victims "must exceed a hundred."

H. Ulubabian said that the information of Azerbaijani sources that
allegedly no child died during Sumgayit events does not correspond
to reality. In his words, a relative of one of killed Armenians
saw a corpse of burnt child among the corpses of grown-ups, as well
as corpses of new-born babies thrown out of the maternity hospital
building.

As H. Ulubabian affirmed, the tragic events of Sumgayit were
the continuation of Turkish policy aimed at extermination of
Armenians. In his words, for preventing such events in the future we
should be "wiser, more patriotic, stronger, we should have patriotic
authorities, should organize life the way so that emigration be
replaced by immigration."
From: Baghdasarian