TRUE PERPETRATORS OF ARMENIAN POGROMS IN SUMGAIT REMAINS UNPUNISHED
PanARMENIAN.Net
27.02.2009 16:37 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Massacres of Armenians in Sumgait, Baku and other
cities of Azerbaijan were a genocide. Unfortunately, these events
have not been investigated thoroughly and true perpetrators have
not been brought to justice", the Chairman of the Board of Lawyers,
participant of some legal trials on Sumgait events Ruben Sahakyan told
a news conference in Yerevan. "The case on Sumgait pogroms was divided
into several parts and sent to different institutions. Today we don’t
have full information about the organizers and perpetrators of the
pogroms", Ruben Sahakyan said and added he was personally informed
about 12 cases. According to the lawyer, the culprits were charged
merely with organization of mass disorders. "Today it’s absolutely
necessary that the documents and materials on those criminal cases
and part of them in Russia, were found. Only in that case we’ll have
factual proofs that genocide was committed in Sumgait against the
Armenian population", Ruben Sahakyan emphasized.
The Sumgait massacre in February 1988 that claimed lives of 32
Armenians was the first mass explosion of ethnic violence in the
modern Soviet history that resulted in huge refugee flows to Armenia
and Nagorno Karabakh. No timely fact-finding , identification and
punishment of perpetrators were initiated.