Sumgait events are genocide planned at the state level

February 26, 2010 - 19:02 AMT

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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.



The Sumgait Pogrom

The Sumgait Pogrom was the Azeri-led pogrom that targeted the Armenian population living in the Azerbaijani seaside town of Sumgait in February 1988. On February 27, 1988, large mobs made up of Azeris formed into groups that went on to attack and kill Armenians in both on the streets and in their apartments; widespread looting and a general lack of concern from police officers allowed the situation to worsen. The violent acts in Sumgait were unprecedented in scope in the Soviet Union and attracted a great deal of attention from the media in the West. The massacre came in light of the Nagorno-Karabakh movement that was gaining traction in the neighbouring Armenia SSR.

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