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Austrian MP Spoke about Sumgait Pogroms in the Parliament

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On March 16, Austrian MP John Alexander spoke in the Parliament in commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Sumgait Pogroms that took place in February 1988, Artsakhpress reports citing Armenian National Committee of Australia.

Alexander spoke of the oppressive history of the region towards Armenians, stemming from the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923 by the former Ottoman Empire, to the anti-Armenian Sumgait Pogroms, and how Azerbaijan’s poor human rights record has continued today.
Alexander stressed that the crimes committed in Sumgait "were never adequately prosecuted by the then Soviet or Azerbaijani authorities" and led to his explanation of Azerbaijan’s poor human rights record, and specifically mentioning the case of Ramil Safarov.




 


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