SUMGAIT TRAGEDY VICTIMS COMMEMORATED IN TBILISI

PanARMENIAN.Net
28.02.2008 15:48 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A soiree marking the 20th anniversary of Sumgait
pogroms took place in Tbilisi February 28. A documentary was screened
and a photo exhibition dedicated to the Sumgait pogroms and start of
the Karabakh Movement opened in Georgia’s capital.

The Sumgait massacre in February 1988 that claimed lives of 32
Armenians was the first mass explosion of ethnic valance in the modern
soviet history that resulted in huge refugee flows to Armenia and
Nagorno Karabakh.

The tragedy in Sumgait entailed ethnic cleansings in Baku, Kirovabad
and other Azeri towns.