SUMGAIT EVENTS ARE GENOCIDE PLANNED AT THE STATE LEVEL
PanARMENIAN.Net
26.02.2010 19:02 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The occurrence in Sumgait created a gap between the
past and the future for the Armenians of Azerbaijan, Gregory Ayvazyan
, head of "Assembly of Azerbaijani-Armenians" told a news conference
in Yerevan. According to him, those events showed that the Armenians
and the Azeris will not be able to live peacefully within one state
"Karabakh movement of 1988 was not only a struggle for independence
and freedom, but the struggle between life and death," Ayvazyan said.
"We keep quiet about what really happened, while Azerbaijan promotes
their lies all over the world, distorting the historical facts and
representing themselves as victims," he said, emphasizing that the
events in Sumgait were the Genocide of Armenian civil population
planned at the state.
"Azerbaijan wishes to turn the events in Khojalu in the balance to
the events in Sumgait and deflect the international attention from
its own criminal policies," Gregory Ayvazyan said adding that the
Assembly will not let this crime go unpunished.
The Sumgait pogrom (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.