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    Armenian Second TV Channel.
    This day 21 years ago Sumgait Armenians massacres started
    28 - February / 2009 : 19:00

    This day 21 years ago became a final break for Armenia and Azerbaijan
    due to the tragic events. From the very first day of the Movement both
    in Artsakh and Armenia hundreds of thousands of people were going out
    for peaceful demonstrations while February 28, 1988 Azerbaijan showed
    practically the road it had chosen ` Armenians of industrial
    town Sumgait were among the creators of the town's biography. For
    three days continuously the town was turned into a hell for Armenians
    living there, the criminal gangs were penetrating every house and yard
    where an Armenian lived to murder, to break and ruin. Meanwhile,
    Moscow was keeping silent. Only three days later the Soviet army
    entered Sumgait probably to intervene in the distribution of rich
    trophies left from Armenians. Later it would be revealed that in
    Azerbaijan all those events were organized by the initiation of the
    state machine and those who were going to ''hunt'' for Armenians had
    been provided by the list and addresses of Armenians. The Sumgait
    tragedy was not duly assessed by the Soviet government and it hasn't
    been assessed by the international community up to nowadays. The
    single fictive judiciary processes were instituted only based on the
    criminal acts by the hooligans. More than hundred people perished,
    many thousands of Armenians lost their property. Sumgait was a
    crossroad and a start for new developments. Encouraged by the impunity
    Azerbaijan continued the massacres in Baku, Gandzak, Khanlar and other
    places where many Armenians lived thus deporting half a million
    people. it was after Sumgait that self-defense in Armenia and Artsakh
    became an imperative and then a token of victory in the compelled war.
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