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In February some Azerbaijani American community leaders ask public officials to sign Khojaly Remembrance Day proclamations. They are generally inaccurate and victimize those who have suffered persecution and genocide by Turkey and Azerbaijan. The mayor of Portland, Maine, agreed to a request made by the president of the Azerbaijani Society of Maine to issue a Remember Khojaly Day proclamation. Additionally, the Maine Holocaust and Human Rights Center (HHRC) cosponsored this matter. There may ...

Life in America: Descendants of the Armenian Genocide Lucy and Anahit grew up listening to stories from family members about the genocide, but now they are faced with it happening again today. Anahit meets with a 108-year-old Assyrian Turkish genocide survivor. This story was originally published in the April issue of ICC’s 04/15/2021 United States (International Christian Concern) – For descendants of the Armenian genocide living in America today, the heart-aching reality of their hist...

How Biden Can Promote Peace in the South Caucasus As the Biden administration moves to place global human rights at the forefront of its foreign policy, it should reverse nearly three decades of disastrous U.S. policy that allowed the conflict to fester and erupt. Since the ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan was signed in November, the international community has been struggling to find a constructive long-term solution to what has long been viewed as one of the world’s most intractabl...

Azerbaijan: Degradation of health condition while in detention of Elchin Mammad 09/04/2021 Degradation of health condition / Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, has received new information and requests your intervention in the following situation in Azerbaijan. New information: The Observatory has been informed about the ongoing arbitrary detention and deteriorating health conditions of Mr.  Elchin Mammad, human rights lawyer, President of the Social Union of Legal Education of Sumg...

April 9, 2021 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, has received new information and requests your intervention in the following situation in Azerbaijan. New information: The Observatory has been informed about the ongoing arbitrary detention and deteriorating health conditions of Mr. Elchin Mammad, human rights lawyer, President of the Social Union of Legal Education of Sumgait Youth (SULESY), a...

Rep. Brad Sherman Representative Brad Sherman, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in powerful remarks submitted to the Congressional Record on Monday, condemned the Azerbaijani massacres of Armenians in Sumgait, Kirovabad and Baku and commemorated those who were killed during those pogroms. Below is the text of Sherman’s statement. I stand in solidarity with the Armenian American community in commemorating the pogroms against Armenians in the cities of Sumgait (February 2...

The Sumgait massacre marked the beginning of a whole series of crimes against humanity committed within the framework of the state policy of Azerbaijan towards the Armenian people at all the stages of the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict.

1 Mar in 2:00 Oleg Kusov. Exclusively for Vestnik Kavkaza The Soviet state dealt itself a crushing blow in November 1987, resigning itself to the expulsion of 200,000 Azerbaijanis from Armenia. Speaking about the stages of the collapse of the USSR, experts often offer a simplified chronology: the events in Sumgait (February 1988) - the war in Karabakh (1988 - 1994) - the war in South Ossetia (1989 - 1992) - interethnic tensions in Uzbekistan, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia (1989 - 1991) ... Exp...

12:16 • 27.02.21 On the occasion of the 33rd anniversaryr of the Armenian pogrom in Sumgait, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released a statement condemning the massive atrocities and crimes of ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Soviet Azerbaijani authorities: 33 years ago, on February 27-29, 1988, pre-planned massacres of Armenians were carried out in the city of Sumgait (Azerbaijan) amid the encouragement of the Azerbaijani authorities and the permissiveness of the law enforcement bodi...

Gagham Manukyan about Ara Saghatelyans arrest: Who is capable to arrest the enemy of the Turk? Member of ARF Dashnaktsutyun Gegham Manukyan addressed the opposition rally at Baghramyan Avenue, speaking of the ongoing days in Armenia, which, per him, would be considered as remembrance and memorable days in the future.  "Today marks the anniversary of the 1988 Sumgait pogroms. In 1988, Azerbaijan showed its real face exactly on this day. Yesterday was another memorable day. On February 26, 1992,...