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    Youth wing of Hnchak: What happened in Sumgait is Genocide

    26.02.2010 23:19 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The youth wing of the Social Democratic Hnchak Party
    in connection with the 22nd anniversary of the Sumgait pogroms of
    Armenians, issued a statement saying that the events in Sumgait were a
    well-planned Genocide. Until and unless the international community
    gives a clear assessment to the Genocide of Armenians in Sumgait, such
    events cannot be excluded in the future," the statement says.

    "What happened in Sumgait is the Genocide, foundations of which were
    laid down in the beginning of the last century," the statement says.

    The Sumgait pogroms (also known as the Sumgait Massacre or February
    Events) was an Azeri-led pogroms of the Armenian population of
    Azerbaijani Sumgait from 26 to 29 February 1988. On February 27, 1988,
    large mobs made up of Azeris formed into groups that went on to attack
    and killed Armenians both on the streets and in their apartments.
    Sumgait pogroms lasted three days and were accompanied by widespread
    violence, looting and murder. Sumgait events signaled the beginning of
    another unprecedented wave of anti-Armenian persecutions and violence
    in Azerbaijan, a new genocide. The victims of this of anti-Armenian
    persecutions and violence were Armenians of Kirovabad, Kazakhs,
    Khanlar, Dashkesan, Mingechaur, Baku and other towns and villages of
    Azerbaijan. This has led to floods of refugees from Azerbaijan in
    Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.
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