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    Another strong condemnation of provocations implemented in National
    Assembly of France by Azerbaijani students

    http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2013/03/02/france-deputy/
    01:21 02/03/2013 » REGION


    French media published a statement by the MP of the French Parliament,
    the president of the parliamentary friendship group "France-Armenia"
    René Rouquet in connection with the conference titled `25 years after
    the Sumgait events: present situation and future prospects for the
    people of Nagorno-Karabakh'.

    The statement says,

    "The conference, which was attended by numerous French
    parliamentarians, was held in very good conditions. A documentary
    film, which tells about the events that took place on the 26th, 27th
    and 28th of February in Sumgait, was presented. After that, I made a
    speech, chairman of the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations
    of France Mourad Papazian, the representatives of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    Hovhannes Grigoryan, Armenian Ambassador to France Vigen Chitchyan too
    made speeches. After the conference, when the leaders were asked to
    honor the victims of the massacre with a moment of silence, the two
    people started to make noise and announced anti-Armenian slogans.
    Because of this shameful behavior, and after physical threats towards
    one of the organizers, the passions rose and the crush began.

    It is clear that questions arise about the real motives of the two
    personalities, who most probably, have not come to honor the victims,
    but to escalate nationalistic passions. I condemn with the utmost
    rigor such a low and unacceptable act which brings respect neither to
    its performers, nor to the organizers. I have always spoken about the
    Nagorno-Karabakh from the standpoint of peace and dialogue, and such
    incidents should not distract us from the real goals of this
    conference which is to give the people of Artsakh satisfactory
    prospects for the future.'

    Earlier, the member of parliament of France, Henri Gibrail and deputy
    chairman of the Department Council of the Bouches du Rhone Christoph
    Mass also issued a joint statement regarding the recent provocations.

    The statement said in particular: `The incident that took place in the
    Supreme Court in the Republic of France is provocation and disrespect,
    which the two so-called Azerbaijani students showed. This is an
    encroachment on freedom of speech. These unacceptable actions prove
    once again that the activists feel absolutely unpunished being fed by
    anti-Armenian propaganda of Azerbaijan and President Ilham Aliyev.
    Republic of France cannot allow the outside forces to penetrate into
    our country and manipulate it and introduce here the anti-Armenian,
    racist moods. At the threshold of the 100th anniversary of the
    Armenian Genocide it has become necessity for France to reassert its
    sovereign authority and defended trampled memory of the Armenian
    community of France. President F. Hollande took over this
    responsibility in his campaign. Adoption of a law criminalizing denial
    of the Armenian Genocide will be just that powerful action that will
    allow both to defend the memory of Armenians and preserve civil peace
    in our country. "

    On December 22, 2011 bill criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial in
    France was unanimously approved by French Parliament in 2-hour-long
    discussions (including the Armenian Genocide including in the Ottoman
    Empire in 1915.). Bill introduced by MP Valerie Boyer (UMP) envisaged
    a 45000 euro fine and a one-year imprisonment in case of denial of the
    Armenian Genocide. Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero noted
    that the bill is a parliamentary initiative, which fits into the
    context of "punishment and nihilistic racist statements." On 23
    January 2012 the upper house of the French parliament (Senate)
    accepted the bill with 127 votes "for" and 86 "against." Later,
    complaint was lodged against this bill to the Constitutional Council
    of France, which was later recognized as unconstitutional.

    On 26 February, in 2013, in one of the halls of the National Assembly
    of France a conference titled `25 years after the Sumgait events:
    present situation and future prospects for the people of
    Nagorno-Karabakh' was held. The conference was marred by the
    Azerbaijani provocation.

    At the end, the attendees stood to honor the memory of the victims
    killed during Sumgait pogroms and kept a minute's silence. Two
    Azerbaijani provocateurs, a girl and a young man, refused to stand up
    and to honor the Armenian victims in Azerbaijan and started to shout
    anti-Armenian slogans. On the photos, published in `Nouvelles
    d'Armenie', it is obvious how the Azerbaijani tries to provoke a fight
    and attacks the audience. Azeri press disseminated false information
    about beating and causing serious injuries, right up to fracturing, to
    provocateurs. In the photos, published in the same Azerbaijani media,
    it is clearly visible that there is no serious damage caused to both.
    Moreover, participants of the provocation give contradicting evidence
    about the incident: at first they say the girl was beaten together
    with the guy, then they say she managed to leave the room.

    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'
    http://karabakhrecords.info/gallery/an-ordinary-genocide-sumgait-february-1988-eng/


    Source: Panorama.a

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