Video - President Khachaturyan, Prime Minister Pashinyan and other government officials commemorate victims of Sumgait pogrom
On the occasion of the Sumgait pogrom commemoration day, President of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan, together with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Speaker of Parliament Alen Simonyan and other government officials, visited the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan to pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the massacre, the parliament’s press service said in a press release, ARMENPRESS reports.
The top leadership placed a wreath and flowers at the cross-stones commemorating the victims of the Armenians who were killed in the pogroms organized by the Azerbaijani authorities in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad and Baku.
In late February 1988, Azerbaijanis began a state-sponsored massacre of the Armenian population in Sumgait, which became known as the Sumgait pogrom.
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