Armenian pogroms in Sumgait and Baku were the result of Armenian hatred of Azerbaijan. President of the National Assembly

The reaction that took place in Azerbaijan to the Artsakh liberation movement was not surprising, considering the long-standing hatred towards people and especially Armenians that existed among our neighbors. They were fully revealed 30 years ago in the Armenian-populated Sumgait of Azerbaijan. As a result of the crime organized and committed at the state level, hundreds of Armenians were brutally killed or injured. About this in the “Sumgait pogroms” going on in the National Assembly. “Armenian hatred as the state policy of Azerbaijan” was announced by NA Speaker Ara Babloyan during the parliamentary hearings.

“Many of our compatriots were forcibly displaced and dispossessed. The violence and murders then continued in Armenian-inhabited Baku, Gandzak and in all the settlements in the territory of Soviet Azerbaijan where ethnic Armenians lived,” said the Speaker of the Parliament. 

According to him, the genocidal actions carried out in Sumgait, Baku were the result of open Armenian hatred of Azerbaijan, which have not been properly evaluated by the international community and relevant courts even today.

“Our people certainly gave their assessment and response by liberating Artsakh, declaring sovereignty, building an independent state. However, the crimes committed more than three decades ago should not remain for the civilized world as past and closed pages of history. The documentary base on the atrocities and massacres carried out against Armenians in Sumgait and Baku is perhaps less in volume than the facts about the actions of the Nazis during the Second World War. However, it is definitely not less influential, especially since Azerbaijani fascism surpasses the mentioned period in its hatred and cruelty. to Hitler’s fascism,” he said.

Concluding his speech, Ara Babloyan mentioned that