February 27, 2014 - 16:25 AMT
Protest held near Azerbaijani embassy in Brussels

The Armenian National Committee of Belgium organized Wednesday, Feb 26, a rally in front of the embassy of Azerbaijan in Brussels to commemorating the Armenian victims of Azerbaijani pogroms in Sumgait, Baku, Maragha, Mingechaur, Kirovabad and other cities.

Waving Armenian and Nagorno Karabakh flags and posters, the protesters chanted in French, English, Russian and Armenian, to remind of Azerbaijan’s bloody past and present, of the pogroms back in 1988, the assassination of lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan in Hungary in 2004 and the heroic death of sergeant Armen Hovhanissyan in 2014.

Having read loudly the letter addressed to the embassy of Azerbaijan, the protesters marched to the memorial of the victims of Armenian Genocide in Brussels. The prayer for the souls of Armenian victims was pronounced there with the presence of Armenian Minister of defense Seyran Ohanyan, Armenian ambassador Avet Adonts and Head of Armenian Mission to NATO Armen Yedigaryan, as well as representatives of the Armenian community. The participants laid wreaths to the memorial.