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    Emil Lazarian
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Armenian parliament holds moment of silence in memory of Sumgait pogrom victims

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 10:15,

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 28, ARMENPRESS. Lawmakers commemorated the victims of the Sumgait pogrom during the plenary session of parliament on February 28.

Hayastan faction MP Arthur Khachatryan said in his remarks that 35 years ago, from February 27 to 29, Azerbaijan committed yet another genocide against Armenians.

He asked legislators to observe a moment of silence to commemorate the victims of the pogrom.

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