Non-recognition of Sumgait genocide is crime in itself: Ambassador Adonts publishes article in EFE
Armenia’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Spain Avet Adonts published an article in the Spanish “EFE” news agency. Some parts of the article are presented below.
“These days marks the 29 th anniversary of the Sumgait pogrom. By the order and permission of the Azerbaijani leadership, massacres of Armenian population, ethnic cleansings were taken place in several Azerbaijani cities, Baku, Kirovabad, Maraga. The key center of that tragedy was the city of Sumgait, 25km away from the capital, where the massacres of Armenians were accompanied with extreme brutality.
It is enough to browse the pages of international media of those days (BBC, New York Times, The Guardian and etc.) or the evidence of the witnesses in the Soviet courts”, the article says, stating that due to Soviet Union’s totalitarian regime, the exact number of Armenians who were killed and became refugees in these days as a result of Azerbaijani aggression and hostilities is unknown.
In the article the Ambassador continues speaking about the Azerbaijani hostilities, stating that in April, 2016 Azerbaijan once again launched an aggression against the people of Nagorno Karabkah (Artsakh Republic).
Numerous international structures acknowledged the crimes committed by Azerbaijan against the civilians, elderly people and children of Nagorno Karabakh. The Sumgait pogrom has no expiration date, the non-recognition of this genocide and not accusing its organizers is a crime in itself.
However, instead of doing this, the current Azerbaijani leadership does everything possible to divert the attention of the international community from what has happened.
“It’s time to accept that a civilization, existing for thousands of years, cannot “historically belong to Azerbaijan,” if the same Azerbaijan doesn’t have even a history of one hundred years.
Perhaps for some Nagorno Karabakh is a conflict, territory, justification, but for us, Armenians, it is a Fatherland. It’s time to understand this obvious truth,” the article said.
