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    Armenian rally condemns US congressman's move to recognize Xocali massacre

    Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan
    28 Feb 05

    A prominent Armenian writer has condemned US Congressman Dan Burton's
    recent appeal to the US Congress to recognize the massacre in the
    Nagornyy Karabakh town of Xocali in February 1992 as genocide.

    Zori Balayan, who was shown on Armenian Public TV addressing a
    rally at Yerevan's Tsitsernakaberd memorial to commemorate pogroms
    against Armenians in Azerbaijan in 1988, accused Congressman Burton
    of one-sidedness.

    "There are issues which cannot be discussed and which are even
    dangerous to be discussed and presented in a one-sided manner ignoring
    the fundamental principle of jurisprudence - listen to the other side,"
    Balayan said.

    The writer, who spoke on behalf of the participants in the rally,
    said that the US congressman should have also mentioned the killing
    of Armenians in the Azerbaijani cities of Sumqayit, Baku and Ganca
    in 1988 and 1990. Balayan also compared the Armenian attack on the
    Azerbaijani town of Xocali during the Karabakh war with the US strikes
    on Afghanistan.

    The rally decided to present the statement to the US embassy in
    Armenia. After the ceremony the people marched to the US embassy,
    the TV report said.
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