STUTTGART COMMEMORATES VICTIMS OF SUMGAIT POGROMS

PanARMENIAN.Net
March 28, 2012 – 10:54 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Armenian community in Germany’s Baden-Wurttemberg
land held an event to commemorate the victims of Armenian pogroms in
Sumgait and other Azerbaijani cities.

Organized jointly with European Artsakh Center, Maral organization
and Armenian-German cultural societies, the event took place in one
of central churches in Stuttgart on March 23.

Father Tiratur, priest of Baden-Wurttemberg’s Armenian community
spoke at the event and served a mass afterwards, European Artsakh
Center reports.

Permanent representative of Artsakh Republic in Germany Harutyun
Grigoryan told about Armenian pogroms and other atrocities of
Azerbaijani authorities, as well as the situation that emerged due to
lack of international condemnation of crimes committed by Azerbaijan’s
government.

Pianist Sophia Melikyan, graduate of Armenian Tchaikovsky musical
school and Madrid’ Royal Conservatory, Master of Arts in Manhattan
school, performed during the event.