PROTEST ACTION IN FRONT OF AZERBAIJANI EMBASSY TO BE HELD FEBRUARY 27 IN ATHENS

PanARMENIAN.Net
26.02.2010 20:09 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On February 27 at the initiative of Youth wing of
ARF Dashnaktsutyun of Greece will organize a protest action in front
of Azerbaijani Embassy in Athens. Since 1988, every year on February
28 Armenians throughout the world commemorate the victims of the
bloody events organized by the Azerbaijani authorities against the
Armenian population of Sumgait , the Azad Or newspaper wrote.

The Sumgait pogroms (also known as the Sumgait Massacre or February
Events) was an Azeri-led pogroms of the Armenian population of
Azerbaijani Sumgait from 26 to 29 February 1988. On February 27, 1988,
large mobs made up of Azeris formed into groups that went on to attack
and killed Armenians both on the streets and in their apartments.

Sumgait pogroms lasted three days and were accompanied by widespread
violence, looting and murder. Sumgait events signaled the beginning of
another unprecedented wave of anti-Armenian persecutions and violence
in Azerbaijan, a new genocide. The victims of this of anti-Armenian
persecutions and violence were Armenians of Kirovabad, Kazakhs,
Khanlar, Dashkesan, Mingechaur, Baku and other towns and villages
of Azerbaijan. This has led to floods of refugees from Azerbaijan in
Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.