Pan Armenian News
PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS REQUESTED RUSSIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL TO FORM BRIGADE TO
INVESTIGATE ARMENIANS POGROMS IN NOVOROSSIYSK
25.04.2005 05:34
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Representatives of a number of public organizations
requested the Russian Prosecutor General to form an independent brigade to
investigate the Armenian pogroms in the Russian town of Novorossiysk,
Yerkramas, the newspaper of Armenians of Russia reported. They asked
Vladimir Ustinov to pay attention to the critical situation with the
discrimination of the ethnic minorities and the systematic violations of
human rights in the Krasnodar region. The appeal says in part, `On March 21,
2005 a group of drunk Cossacks headed by ataman V. Petrusha assaulted young
people of Armenian and Greek origin, who were celebrating a birthday in a
café. On March 22, 2005 about 200 Cossacks arrived in Novorossiyk to commit
pogroms and spread leaflets with the demand to stop the `Armenian-Caucasian
outrage’. Another series of leaflets calumniated deputy of the town dumal,
chairman of Luys, the Armenian cultural association V. Mkhitarian. `On the
basis of the above mentioned we request You to form an independent group to
investigate the incidents taken place and identify persons guilty for the
instigation of national hostility’, the appeal says.