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PROCESSION DEDICATED TO INNOCENT VICTIMS OF SUMGAIT MASSACRE
16:36 27/02/2013 " SOCIETY
Tomorrow, on February 28, at 11:30, in Yerevan a procession will
be held to Armenian Genocide Memorial - Tsitsernakaberd - where the
cross stone (khachkar) in memory of the Armenians tortured and killed
in Sumgait city of Azerbaijan on February 27-29, in 1988, is installed.
The procession is organized by series of non-governmental
organizations. The former inhabitants of Sumgait will also take part
in mourning ceremony, people who have passed through indescribable
tortures and hell, have lost their relatives and friends in the result
of massacre, have received physical injuries and have become enabled.
Representatives of Armenian Public Council, YSU student's organization
and other youth organizations as well as intellectuals, series of
experts, journalists and human rights defenders togather with the
former inhabitants of Sumgait will put a wreath at the cross stone.
On 26-29 February 1988 in terms of actual complicity of local
authorities and inaction of the USSR government mass pogroms
of civilians were organized in Sumgait city of Azerbaijani SSR,
accompanied with unprecedented brutal murders, violence and pillaging
against the Armenian population of the city. Armenian pogroms in
Sumgait were carefully organized. At the meetings, which began on
February 26 in the central square, city leaders openly called for
violence against the Armenians.
On February 27 protests which were attended by hundreds of rioters
turned into violence. Armed with axes, knives, specially sharpened
rebar, rocks and cans of gasoline and with the pre-compiled lists of
apartments where Armenians lived the rioters broke into the houses,
turning everything upside down there and killing the owners. In
the same time, people were often taken out to the streets or to the
courtyard for jeering at them publicly. After painful humiliations
and torture the victims were doused with gasoline and burnt alive.
On February 29 army troops entered Sumgait but without an order to
intervene. Only in the evening, when the mad crowd began to attack
the soldiers the military units took up decisive steps.
The exact number of victims of Sumgait pogroms is still unknown.
According to official data, 32 people were killed; however there
is ample evidence that several hundred Armenians have been killed
in the city in three days. There is also evidence that the riots
were coordinated by KGB in Azerbaijan. Executioners of Sumgait were
subsequently declared as national heroes of Azerbaijan.
Documentary "Ordinary Genocide: Sumgait 1988"
Source: Panorama.a
16:36 27/02/2013 " SOCIETY
Tomorrow, on February 28, at 11:30, in Yerevan a procession will
be held to Armenian Genocide Memorial - Tsitsernakaberd - where the
cross stone (khachkar) in memory of the Armenians tortured and killed
in Sumgait city of Azerbaijan on February 27-29, in 1988, is installed.
The procession is organized by series of non-governmental
organizations. The former inhabitants of Sumgait will also take part
in mourning ceremony, people who have passed through indescribable
tortures and hell, have lost their relatives and friends in the result
of massacre, have received physical injuries and have become enabled.
Representatives of Armenian Public Council, YSU student's organization
and other youth organizations as well as intellectuals, series of
experts, journalists and human rights defenders togather with the
former inhabitants of Sumgait will put a wreath at the cross stone.
On 26-29 February 1988 in terms of actual complicity of local
authorities and inaction of the USSR government mass pogroms
of civilians were organized in Sumgait city of Azerbaijani SSR,
accompanied with unprecedented brutal murders, violence and pillaging
against the Armenian population of the city. Armenian pogroms in
Sumgait were carefully organized. At the meetings, which began on
February 26 in the central square, city leaders openly called for
violence against the Armenians.
On February 27 protests which were attended by hundreds of rioters
turned into violence. Armed with axes, knives, specially sharpened
rebar, rocks and cans of gasoline and with the pre-compiled lists of
apartments where Armenians lived the rioters broke into the houses,
turning everything upside down there and killing the owners. In
the same time, people were often taken out to the streets or to the
courtyard for jeering at them publicly. After painful humiliations
and torture the victims were doused with gasoline and burnt alive.
On February 29 army troops entered Sumgait but without an order to
intervene. Only in the evening, when the mad crowd began to attack
the soldiers the military units took up decisive steps.
The exact number of victims of Sumgait pogroms is still unknown.
According to official data, 32 people were killed; however there
is ample evidence that several hundred Armenians have been killed
in the city in three days. There is also evidence that the riots
were coordinated by KGB in Azerbaijan. Executioners of Sumgait were
subsequently declared as national heroes of Azerbaijan.
Documentary "Ordinary Genocide: Sumgait 1988"
Source: Panorama.a