KARABAKH CONFLICT; SUMGAYIT GENOCIDE
By Inga Petrosyan

Azg
Feb 26 2010
Armenia

To recognize the massacres of Sumgayit as genocide

22 years ago, on these days the Armenians of Sumgayit were slaughtered
in Azerbaijan.

"We don’t speak of our truth, but on the contrary, Azerbaijan spreads
its falsehood all over the world playing the role of the victim. The
fairy-tale of Khojali recently created by the Azerbaijani propaganda
machine pursue an aim to mask its crime committed in Sumgayit and
distract the attention of the international community", Grigory
Ayvazyan, Chairman of the Assembly of the Azerbaijani Armenians,
said yesterday at a press conference in Duplex Club.

According to the Assembly, the crime committed by Azerbaijan should not
go unpunished. The whole world should know about it, but first of all,
the Republic of Armenia should recognize the massacres of Sumgayit
as genocide. The Assembly of the Azerbaijani Armenians has submitted
a draft law on Sumgayit genocide to the National Assembly of RA.

Grigory Ayvazyan also spoke of the resettlement of the liberated
territories adjacent to NKR.

"I don’t think that resettlement of the liberated territories by the
Azerbaijani Armenians is the best way to the solution of the problem.

Those territories should be populated by the Armenian villagers,
based on the principles of colonization", he said.