YEREVAN. – The objective of the mass pogroms that were organized thirty years ago these days in the Armenian-populated town of Sumgait in Azerbaijan was to frighten Armenians with a new genocide, and to force them to abandon their national liberation movement.
Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia, Ara Babloyan, on Wednesday stated the aforesaid in the parliament session, and regarding the 30th anniversary of these pogroms.
“Hundreds of Armenian residents were brutally murdered as a result of the crime that was organized at the [Azerbaijan] state level,” ...
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