United States embassy commemorates victims of Sumgait pogrom

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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 27, ARMENPRESS. The United States embassy in Armenia paid tribute to the memory of the Armenians who were killed in the 1988 Sumgait pogrom.

“Today, we join with Armenians mourning and acknowledging all who lost their lives in Sumgait in 1988,” the United States embassy said in a statement released on social media.

In late February 1988, Azerbaijanis began a state-sponsored massacre of the Armenian population in Sumgait, which became known as the Sumgait pogrom.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS