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NKR President commemorates Sumgait massacre victims
28.02.2009 15:07 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On 28 February, on occasion of the 21st anniversary
of the Sumgait massacre NKR President Bako Sahakyan accompanied by top
officials attended Stepanakert memorial complex to lay flowers to the
monument to innocent victims of these events, Central Information
Department of the Office of the NKR President told PanARMENIAN.Net.

The Armenian pogroms in Sumgait on February 26-29, 1988 were the first
outburst of ethnic violence in the modern soviet history.

Violence, robberies and killings resulted in flows of Armenians to
Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia.