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DeFacto Agency, Armenia
Feb. 26, 2008
ARMENIA SHOULD INSTITUTE CRIMINAL CASE ON SOUMGAIT
YEREVAN, 26.02.08. DE FACTO. Armenia should institute a criminal case
on Soumgait over again. Moreover, a criminal case should be
instituted against Gorbachev - the main culprit of the Soumgait
pogroms. Such an opinion was expressed by Inessa Burkova, a Russian
writer, member of the Committee of Russian intelligentsia `Karabakh'
(`KRIK') in the course of an international conference `The Problems
of Xenophobia and Tolerancy in the Region of the South Caucasus' held
February 25.
Inessa Burkova is convinced that the Armenian pogroms in Soumgait
were a premeditated action of the leadership of Azerbaijan and the
Soviet Union. `Both the leadership of Azerbaijan and CPSS CC and
General Secretary M. Gorbachev himself were not only aware of
preparations for pogroms in Soumgait, but also participated in the
organization of Armenians' carnage in Soumgait'.
According to `KRIK' activist, Gorbachev's goal was to crush democracy
arising in Armenian SSR and Karabakh: `Soumgait has become an attempt
of bloody manifestation of democratic processes, which started in
Karabakh'.
In Inessa Burkova's words, a colossal material referring to the
events of those days has been gathered. She is convinced the material
based on the evidences of eye-witnesses and those, who suffered from
pogroms, should be used to call the culprits of the Soumgait tragedy
to account.
Feb. 26, 2008
ARMENIA SHOULD INSTITUTE CRIMINAL CASE ON SOUMGAIT
YEREVAN, 26.02.08. DE FACTO. Armenia should institute a criminal case
on Soumgait over again. Moreover, a criminal case should be
instituted against Gorbachev - the main culprit of the Soumgait
pogroms. Such an opinion was expressed by Inessa Burkova, a Russian
writer, member of the Committee of Russian intelligentsia `Karabakh'
(`KRIK') in the course of an international conference `The Problems
of Xenophobia and Tolerancy in the Region of the South Caucasus' held
February 25.
Inessa Burkova is convinced that the Armenian pogroms in Soumgait
were a premeditated action of the leadership of Azerbaijan and the
Soviet Union. `Both the leadership of Azerbaijan and CPSS CC and
General Secretary M. Gorbachev himself were not only aware of
preparations for pogroms in Soumgait, but also participated in the
organization of Armenians' carnage in Soumgait'.
According to `KRIK' activist, Gorbachev's goal was to crush democracy
arising in Armenian SSR and Karabakh: `Soumgait has become an attempt
of bloody manifestation of democratic processes, which started in
Karabakh'.
In Inessa Burkova's words, a colossal material referring to the
events of those days has been gathered. She is convinced the material
based on the evidences of eye-witnesses and those, who suffered from
pogroms, should be used to call the culprits of the Soumgait tragedy
to account.