20th anniversary of Sumgait massacre marked in Nagorno Karabakh
The 20th anniversary of the Sumgait massacre was marked in Nagorno Karabakh. NKR top officials headed by President Bako Sahakian and ordinary citizens attended the Memorial to commemorate the victims of the tragedy. Priests of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church chanted a liturgy in memory of the innocent murder victims, IA Regnum reports.
The Sumgait massacre in February 1988 that claimed lives of 32 Armenians was the first mass explosion of ethnic valance in the modern soviet history that resulted in huge refugee flows to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.
The Sumgait massacre in February 1988 that claimed lives of 32 Armenians was the first mass explosion of ethnic valance in the modern soviet history that resulted in huge refugee flows to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.
