SOUMGAIT EVENTS BECAME LOGIC MANIFESTATION OF AZERBAIJAN’S ANTI-ARMENIAN POLICY
DeFacto Agency, Armenia
Feb 29 2008
YEREVAN, 29.02.08. DE FACTO. The Soumgait events became logic
manifestation of Azerbaijan’s anti-Armenian policy, a political
scientist Levon Melik-Shahnazarian told a PanARMENIAN.Net
correspondent. "However, even in this case what happened in Soumgait
actually cannot be perceived as actions of normal, even embittered
by state propaganda, people. Taking into consideration the mass
character of the crimes’ participants and silent approval of the
rest of Azerbaijan’s population the following conclusion can be made:
the Azerbaijani nation is ill, seriously ill", the Armenian political
scientist stated.
At the same time Levon Melik-Shahnazarian reminded that in early
November of 1988 a group of young patriots headed by Igor Mouradian
(a founder of the Karabakh committee) had appealed to the members of
the Karabakh committee to submit draft resolution recognizing the
Soumgait events as Genocide to the session of Armenian SSR Supreme
Soviet. "However, the committee headed by Levon Ter-Petrossian was
busy with more important problems – "Armenia should be democratized",
the political scientist underscored.