2024-06-25 23:28:07
The assertion of Gagik Baghunts, the performing president of the Nationwide Meeting of the Republic of Artsakh, in 1988. On the event of the thirty sixth anniversary of the Sumgait pogroms.
“Expensive compatriots
Right now is the thirty sixth anniversary of the Sumgait pogroms, one of the crucial tragic and monstrous pages within the current historical past of the Armenian individuals, which has not but been condemned by worldwide regulation. The teams of thugs, in circumstances of full indifference of the regulation enforcement companies of the town, invaded the residences of Armenians and retaliated in opposition to harmless individuals with unimaginable cruelty. The violence in opposition to the Armenians was an excessive manifestation of the coverage constantly carried out over the a long time.
The mixture of impunity and a way of permissiveness, intolerance and hatred in direction of Armenians, in addition to the will to suppress the fitting to self-determination of the individuals of Artsakh at any value led to the rooting of genocidal intentions in direction of the individuals of Artsakh within the political consciousness and state coverage of Azerbaijan.
Sadly, the previous 36 years after the Sumgait pogroms have additionally proven that the working type of the Azerbaijani authorities has not undergone any change, furthermore, the continual Armenian-hatred rhetoric, the propaganda of hatred has turn out to be a manuscript. Right now’s scenario is a transparent proof of this.
Expensive compatriots
Right now we pay tribute to the reminiscence of the harmless victims of the mass crimes dedicated in Sumgait and different settlements and document that Armenian hatred, the usage of drive and the specter of use of drive proceed to be on the core of Azerbaijan’s state coverage. And the dedicated crimes mustn’t stay as previous and closed pages of historical past for the civilized world.”