FRENCH CITY OF ALFORTVILLE COMMEMORATED VICTIMS OF SUMGAIT POGROM
20:12, 2 March, 2015
STEPANAKERT, 2 MARCH, ARMENPRESS. On February 27, members of the
“Nazarbek” Youth Union of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party
organized an event commemorating the victims of the Sumgait Pogrom
in Alfortville, France. As the Department of Information and Public
Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic reports to “Armenpress”, the event included the showing of the
film “Sumgait: Unpunished Crime” made by “Tsir Katin” Studio, followed
by a speech by Permanent Representative of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic in France Hovhannes Gevorgyan.
He read the testimonies of survivors of the Sumgait Pogrom and
recalled the fact that the massacres were planned. The attendees
compared the Armenian Genocide and the Sumgait Pogrom, as well as
touched upon the Artsakh movement, its history and the current stage
of the liberation struggle.