The United States Embassy has a short statement on the 35th anniversary of the massacres of the Armenians in the city of Sumgait carried out amid the encouragement and criminal inaction of the Azerbaijani authorities, resulting in the killing of hundreds of Armenians, including children, women, elderly, while thousands were forcibly displaced.

“Today, we join with Armenians mourning and acknowledging all who lost their lives in Sumgait in 1988,” the Embassy said on social media on Monday, February 27.