Today marks the third year of another crime against the Armenian people, the Sumgait Genocide.

On that occasion, the factions of the Artsakh National Assembly issued a statement, where it is particularly mentioned:

“These massacres are fully in line with the legal definition of genocide and crimes against humanity as defined by the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The Sumgait massacre was a state-planned operation by the authorities of those days in Soviet Azerbaijan and their sponsoring forces, which targeted the Armenian population who built the city. All this was accompanied by unspeakable cruelty and violence, looting and robbery.

The violence on the grounds of national and religious intolerance did not receive an adequate assessment by the political leadership of the Soviet Union and relevant international organizations, which made massacres and forced deportations a course of action for the Azerbaijani regime. In the following months, the population of Baku, Gandzak and the left bank of the Kura fell victim to a new catastrophe. About half a million Armenians were deported from Azerbaijan, and the native Armenians of Northern Artsakh were deprived of their homeland.

The Sumgait genocide was the response of the Azerbaijani authorities to the struggle of the Artsakh Armenians for their freedom and self-determination, which began in February 1988.

The peaceful population of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was also the target of large-scale aggression by Azerbaijan. It turned out to be more inhuman during the new war unleashed by Azerbaijan in the fall of 2020.

Paying tribute to the memory of thousands of our compatriots who fell victim to the Sumgait genocide, aggression of Azerbaijan, condemning any manifestation of discrimination, intolerance and xenophobia, the factions of the NKR National Assembly,

Call on the international community to recognize countries and organizations that respect fundamental human rights and freedoms and Azerbaijan’s anti-Armenian policy.”

“Democratic Party of Artsakh” Faction ­­­­­

“Armenian Revolutionary Federation” Faction

 Artsakh “Justice” Faction

“United Homeland” Faction

“Free Homeland – UCA” Faction