Sumgait tragedy victims commemorated in Tbilisi
A soiree marking the 20th anniversary of Sumgait pogroms took place in Tbilisi February 28. A documentary was screened and a photo exhibition dedicated to the Sumgait pogroms and start of the Karabakh Movement opened in Georgia's capital.
The Sumgait massacre in February 1988 that claimed lives of 32 Armenians was the first mass explosion of ethnic valance in the modern soviet history that resulted in huge refugee flows to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.
The tragedy in Sumgait entailed ethnic cleansings in Baku, Kirovabad and other Azeri towns.
The Sumgait massacre in February 1988 that claimed lives of 32 Armenians was the first mass explosion of ethnic valance in the modern soviet history that resulted in huge refugee flows to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.
The tragedy in Sumgait entailed ethnic cleansings in Baku, Kirovabad and other Azeri towns.
