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    FORUM IN FRANCE COMMEMORATES SUMGAIT POGROM

    By MassisPost
    Updated: March 2, 2015

    ALFORTVILLE, FRANCE - The Social Democrat Hunchakian Party's Nazarbek
    Youth Movement hosted a forum on Feb. 27 at the Hunchakian Armenian
    Youth Center in Alfortville, France, to commemorate the Sumgait
    pogrom, which took place on Feb 27 - 29 prior to the Artsakh war of
    independence in 1988.

    The forum began with a moment of silence, initiated by Nazarbek Youth
    Movement member and moderator of the evening, Mr. Sevag Sarikaya. In
    his opening remarks, Mr. Sarikaya, expressed that the Sumgait pogrom
    awoke the dark memory of the Armenian genocide amongst Armenians
    throughout the world.

    The program began with the screening of the documentary "Soumgait,
    un crime impuni," a documentary on the Sumgait pogrom perpetrated
    by the authorities of Azerbaijan against the Armenian minority of
    the country, in the context of the fall of the Soviet Union. The
    documentary showed the horrors of the pogrom, and the entailing start
    of a war for the independence of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.

    Following the documentary, the keynote speaker Mr. Hovannes Guevorkian,
    Representative of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabagh to France, presented
    the day to day social situation in the former Soviet Republic of
    Azerbaijan before and after the massacres. Mr. Guevorkian also
    read excerpt testimonials from former French Minister of Foreign
    and European Affairs Bernard Kouchner's "La Tragedie de Soumgait,"
    confirming the fact the massacres were intentional and methodical.

    During the question and answer session of the forum, Mr. Guevorkian
    addressed the stagnation and slow progress of the peace process which
    is in the best interest of the Aliyev authoritarian government and
    his family; the dangers of conflict along the border; the number of
    victims due to the recent escalation of the conflict by the Azeri
    side; and the economic growth in spite of the conflict within the
    Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

    At the end of event, SDHP France Executive Committee Chairman Mr.

    Kevork Satchlian reminded the audience of the OSCE Minsk Group's
    mission and the importance of reinstating the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
    to the negotiating table as a full participant.

    http://massispost.com/2015/03/forum-in-france-commemorates-sumgait-pogrom/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzGAceY0DDE


    From: Baghdasarian
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