protesters marched in the streets of Stepanakert Nagorno Karabakh)
Last February 28, thousands of protesters marched in the streets of Stepanakert (capital of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh) to visit the memorial of the Armenian victims of Sumgait. Demonstrators wore many posters accusing Azerbaijan in its racist and anti-Armenian policy. Slogans such as “We demand justice! “,” Sumgait was genocide carried out by criminals, “or” Never again! “. In the crowd, many citizens of Nagorno Karabakh, MPs, government officials, President Bako Sahakyan and 1200 members of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun came from Yerevan. He is 27 years old, from 27 to 29 February 1988 in Sumgait (Azerbaijan) several hundred Armenians were victims of pogroms carried out by the Azerbaijani authorities to counter the uprising of Armenians in Karabakh.
Krikor Amirzayan