Youth wing of Hnchak: What happened in Sumgait is Genocide

26.02.2010 23:19 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The youth wing of the Social Democratic Hnchak Party
in connection with the 22nd anniversary of the Sumgait pogroms of
Armenians, issued a statement saying that the events in Sumgait were a
well-planned Genocide. Until and unless the international community
gives a clear assessment to the Genocide of Armenians in Sumgait, such
events cannot be excluded in the future," the statement says.

"What happened in Sumgait is the Genocide, foundations of which were
laid down in the beginning of the last century," the statement says.

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.