Owing to the 18th anniversary of the Sumgait pogroms Members of the Parliament and Government of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, well-known political and public figures, students and schoolchildren, former Sumgait residents came to a Memorial Complex in the NKR capital of Stepanakert. In the words of NKR NA Speaker Ashot Ghulyan, the world is not silent on the murderous deeds in Sumgait. «Stepanakert residents annually gathering here for already 18 years on February 28 to commemorate victims of Sumgait pogroms also evidences that these deeds have penetrated deep into our people’s consciousness and memory. Our duty is to do our best to make the international community and those trying to promote conflict settlement aware of what happened in Sumgait. Sumgait is not only outrage, which suddenly «sobered up» us at the initial stage of the Karabakh movement, but it was Sumgait that arouse self-preservation instinct in our people, which later resulted in a victory for us » Ghulyan said, reported Karabakh-online.
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