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    SUMGAIT POGROM: THREAT OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE STILL EXISTS IN AZERBAIJAN

    The Voice of Russia
    April 2 2013

    The 25th anniversary of the genocide of the Armenians was marked
    in Azerbaijan. Unfortunately, the world community still has not
    given a proper political and legal assessment of this crime of the
    Azerbaijan authorities, and thus has not secured itself against the
    future recurrence of genocide in other regions of the world.

    The genocide of the Armenians in Sumgait organized by the authorities
    of Azerbaijan became the answer to the peaceful constitutional decision
    of February 20, 1988, of the session of the Nagorno-Karabakh Regional
    Council of People's Deputies on Nagorny Karabakh's unification with
    Armenia, which integral part it was during the millennia-old history
    prior to the Soviet period.

    On February 27-29, 1988, in the city of Sumgait, located hundreds
    of kilometers away from Nagorno-Karabakh, there occured mass pogroms
    and killings of Armenians, crimes against humanity that stunned the
    world public by its savagery and brutality. During the three days
    of massacres and pogroms, dozens of Armenians were killed, hundreds
    were wounded, a huge amount was subjected to violence, torture and
    harassment, 18 thousand people became refugees. The genocide in Sumgait
    became the embodiment of hatred for Armenians that was inherent for
    the policy of the leadership of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

    Azerbaijan pogrom-makers armed with metal rods made at factories
    and other thrust weapons commenced to the implementation of their
    planned criminal actions. Piles of stones were stockpiled in the
    centre of the city in order to throw them at motor transport and
    forces of law and order. In the days of the pogroms, telephones of
    the Armenian residents of Sumgait were turned off, and, as a rule,
    they were turned off after people called the militia or the City
    Committee of the Communist party with the request to help. The phones
    of many Russian residents were also turned off.

    The pogrom-makers knew their tasks very well; they had on hand lists
    of Armenians and their addresses. Groups of 50-80 bandits broke into
    the houses of Armenians, killing people, not only in their homes,
    but they often took them out in the street or courtyard for public
    humiliation. After severe tortures, the victims were doused with
    gasoline and burned alive. Thus they destroyed entire families.

    The genocide in Sumgait gave the "green light" to new unprecedented
    crimes against the civilian population in Nagorno-Karabakh, and
    ultimately led to the beginning of an open military aggression of
    Azerbaijan against Nagorno-Karabakh in 1991-94.

    After the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was proclaimed in accordance with
    the norms of the international law and the legislation of the USSR,
    Azerbaijan undertook a large-scale terrorist aggression. The Baku
    administration had committed crimes against peace and humanity, such as
    planning, preparation, unleashing and waging an aggressive war, murder
    and extermination of civilian population, killing and ill-treatment
    of prisoners of war, and intentional destruction of towns and villages.

    In February 1992, the Azerbaijan leadership committed the murder
    of their own peoplein the territory of Khojali controlled by the
    Azerbaijan army, or more precisely in the outskirts of Agdam, whence
    the continuous bombardment of the NKR territory and attacks on the
    cities and villageswere carried out.

    The Azerbaijan authorities systematically falsify the events in
    Khojali. The Azerbaijan still library represents computer-edited
    photos and display other historical events in other geographical
    locations. Photos that allegedly represent the Khojaly tragedy,
    in fact, are the photos of the earthquake in Turkey in 1983, Afghan
    children-refugees, the pogroms of the Alawis in 1978 in the Turkish
    city of Marash, photos of Albanianskilled in Kosovo, the pogroms in
    the Balkans in 1999, and picturesof Hamas militants destroyed by the
    Israeli army.

    Regularly playing the card of "Khojali", the official Baku tries
    to distract the attention of the international community from the
    genocide of the Armenians in Sumgait, Baku, Kirovabad, Khanlar and
    otherAzerbaijan settlements, as well as in the border settlements
    of Nagorno-Karabakh.

    In the course of the large-scale aggression of Azerbaijan against
    the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic in 1991-94, in the Karabakh village of
    Maraga occupied by the Azerbaijan army for several hours on April 10,
    1992, 81 peoplewere brutally killed, 67 people were taken hostage,
    and the fate of many of them is still not known. People, who had
    not managed to leave the village, were dismembered with axes,
    doused with gasoline and burned alive. Unfortunately, to this day,
    all these crimes committed by Azerbaijan against humanity, have not
    been adequately assessed by the world community.

    Today, in Azerbaijan, instead of repentance for endless atrocities
    and murderous acts, instead of legal procedures against the criminals,
    weonly see and hear sabre-rattling and threats of revanchism, terrorist
    calls for shooting down civilian aircrafts, falsification of the facts
    of history and persistent racist misanthropic insults of the Armenian
    people. The shameful release and glorification of the murderer with
    an axe Safarov has once again demonstrated to the world community that
    in Azerbaijan murder owing to national reasons had been raised to the
    rank of state policy, and systematic and deliberate lies and breakdowns
    of international agreements lie in the basis of theBaku policy.

    Ruben Zargaryan, candidate of historical sciences, Advisor of the
    1st class of the NKR MFA

    http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_04_02/Sumgait-pogrom-threat-of-Armenian-genocide-still-exists-in-Azerbaijan/

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