Anti-Armenian policy, crimes and pogroms by Azerbaijan were throughout the 20th century

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/baku_13-1-2020/ More detailed in Armenian (հայերեն) – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/baku_13-1-2020_hy/ (Text was provided by the Consulate General of the Republic of Armenia in Sankt Petersburg, Russia) None of the perpetrators and organizers of three Armenian pogroms in Baku in early and late 20th century was duly punished. Contemporary Azerbaijan is notorious for flourishing Armenophobia, distorting history of Baku, thus erasing the memory of the Armenian creative role and constructive contribution in the development of Baku.

President Armen Sarkissian’s message on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Armenian pogroms in Baku

հայերեն – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/pres_13-1-2020_hy/ на русском – Source – web site president.am President Armen Sarkissian’s message on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Armenian pogroms in Baku Dear Compatriots, Today, we pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the pogroms in Baku. Thirty years ago, in January of 1990, purges of the Armenians were ordered in Baku, claiming the lives of hundreds of Armenians; many were injured, subjected to tortures, were expelled, some were lost without a trace. After the pogroms, Baku, which had had the Armenian population of 250,000, was totally purged of Armenians.

Statement on the Day of Remembrance of the victims of the crime of Genocide committed by Azerbaijan against the Armenian people (January 13, 1990)

in Russian (на русском) – https://aga-tribunal.info/12-1-2020/ Statement on the Day of remembrance of the victims of the crime of genocide committed by Azerbaijan against the Armenian people (January 13)   The beginning of each year is marked by two tragic dates – the period of the establishment of Soviet power in Transcaucasia and its collapse: – January 9-12 – the days of memory of the Shamkhor massacre that terrified even Stalin himself.  Troops were returning to Russia from the Caucasian front were they fought against Turkey. Thousands of Russians (mostly Cossacks) were brutally killed in January 1918 by those who seized […]

Address to the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia

հայերեն – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/na_9-12-2019_hy/ на русском – https://aga-tribunal.info/na_9-12-2019/ On December 9, 2019, the Tekeyan Cultural Center in Yerevan hosted the conference “Unrecognized genocides of the 20th century”. The participants adopted the Address to the National Assembly of Armenia and handed it over in the prescribed manner. The following is a translation into English by “Miaban”.

Crimes of the Republic of Azerbaijan against the Armenian people and humanity

на русском – https://aga-tribunal.info/crimes/ հայերեն – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/crimes_hy/ Based on materials from the publication of the National Assembly (Parliament) of the Republic of Western Armenia. The crimes committed by the successive governments of the Republic of Azerbaijan against the Armenian people, against humanity and civilization, over the past 100 years, are a copy of the handwriting and program of the successive governments of the Republic of Turkey. We cannot cover a longer time interval, since an artificial state called Azerbaijan was created in 1918.

Osip Mandelstam about Shushi

The famous Russian poet Osip Mandelstam was in Shushi 11 years after massacres in Shushi, in 1931, saw a horrible picture of “forty thousand lifeless windows which are visible there from all sides” and wrote a poem called “The phaeton driver” dedicated to this tragedy. A little-known “early late” Osip Mandelshtam poem (1931) that marks his return to poetry after more than half a decade of writing prose and prose only. Composed on their return to Moscow, Nadezhda Mandelstam writes that it depicts their actual journey out of Armenia, where he’d began to write poetry again in 1930. Source of translation – here.

Professor Eduard Markaryan on the Armenian Genocide in Azerbaijan

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/markaryan_2/ Below are quotes from the book of the outstanding world-famous scientist Eduard Sarkisovich Markaryan (1929-2011) “Global Aspects of the Armenian Genocide. Experience of Sociocultural Analysis”, 2005. Translation is made by “AGA-Tribunal.info”.

Statement by the spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia on the centennial of pogroms of Armenians in Agulis

in Russian հայերեն December 24, 2019 Source: MFA of Armenia Today we commemorate the centennial of massacres of Armenians in Agulis. A century ago, on the night of December 24 to 25, 1919, the peaceful Armenian population of Agulis was massacred, while this ancient Armenian settlement of Nakhichevan was left in ruins.

An Open Letter 27.7.1990 on Anti-Armenian Pogroms in the Soviet Union

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/open_27-7-1990/ Source – New York Times    Screenshot An Open Letter to the world community is a letter signed by 133 scholars and public figures with an appeal to the world community in connection with the anti-Armenian pogroms and blockade carried out in the Azerbaijan SSR. The letter was published in the New York Times on July 27, 1990.

About genocidal policy and crimes of Azerbaijan in the Statement addressed to UN

(in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/wa_7-8-2019_/) On August 7, 2019, the Republic of Western Armenia sent a large and unprecedented Statement to the UN “On the demarcation of the border between the state of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan”. In particular, it contained information on the genocidal crimes by Azerbaijan against the Armenian people. Below are some fragments from the Appeal.

Continuation of the “Proclamation of 132” of July 27, 1990 on the protection of civilization from savage barbarity

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/appeal-27-7-2020/ Open Appeal to the world public Continuation of the “Proclamation of 132” of July 27, 1990 on the protection of civilization from savage barbarity On July 27, 1990, 132 prominent scientists and public figures addressed an Open letter to the world public regarding the deliberate atrocities committed by the authorities of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Rrepublic (Az. SSR) against the Armenian population. The authors of the Letter compared these egregious crimes to the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. However, the 30 years that have passed since the Letter have repeatedly proved that Azerbaijan actually continues the […]

Round table “Operation “Ring”. Military terrorism as an instrument of genocidal politics”

(same in Russian) On May 31, 2019 at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) was held the Round table “Operation “Ring”. Military terrorism as an instrument of genocidal policy” dedicated to the 28th anniversary of this atrocity in 1991.

Statement by the Foreign Ministry of Armenia on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of Maragha massacre

in Armenian – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/mfa_10-4-2019_hy/ in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/mfa_10-4-2019/ April 10, 2019 Web site of MFA of Armenia Today marks the 27th anniversary of the crime committed by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in Maragha village of Artsakh. During the several hours of control over the village the Azerbaijani army turned it into a slaughterhouse by subjecting to torture in the most cruel way and killing more than 50 civilians, as well as taking as many captive, mostly women, elderly, children and the disabled. Two weeks later, the Azerbaijani army once again established control over the village, this time completely destroying it. To date, […]

To the 27th anniversary of the genocidal crimes by Azerbaijan in the village of Maraga

(in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/ks_7-4-2019/) In connection with the anniversary of the massacre of the population of the Karabakh village of Maraga, carried out by the armed formations of the Azerbaijan Republic on April 10, 1992, the Coordination Council of the Russian-Armenian Organizations (CC RAO) made a special statement. We offer the text of the statement in full:

Artak Beglaryan. The crimes of Azerbaijan are in full compliance with the legal formulation of the UN 1948 Convention on the Genocide

(in Armenian, in Russian) Source Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan issued a statement on the 31st anniversary of the massacres of Armenians organized by Azerbaijan in Sumgait in February 1988. The text of the statement is presented below:

Giulio Centemero. Sumgait massacre has happened as a murder of people as such

(հայերեն  https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/italy_6-3-2019_hy/ на русском  https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/italy_6-3-2019/) Source – Armenpress Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy, responsible for the Armenian-Italian inter-parliamentary relations, representative of the ruling Lega party, Giulio Centemero, has delivered remarks on the 1988 Armenian massacres in Sumgait Video of his speech on March 6, 2019 – here.

Memorandum of the MFA of the Republic of Artsakh on the web site of UN

Memorandum of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh on the issue of missing persons in the context of the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict (November 12, 2018) Published on December 11, 2018 on the web site of UN as a Letter (dated 4 December 2018) from the Permanent Representative of Armenia to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

Baroness Caroline Cox about Maraga massacre in 1992

на русском – https://aga-tribunal.info/maraga_1998/ From an article in Wikipedia: “The Maraga massacre (Armenian: Մարաղայի կոտորած, romanized: Maraghayi kotorats) was the mass murder of Armenian civilians in the village of Maraga (Maragha) by Azerbaijani troops, which had captured the village on April 10, 1992, in the course of the Nagorno-Karabakh War. The villagers, including men, women, children and elderly, were killed indiscriminately and deliberately, their houses were pillaged and burnt; the village was destroyed. Although estimates of the actual number of people murdered ranges from 50 to 100, according to most sources more than 50 people were killed and a further 53 […]

Resolution of the International Conference on September 14-17, 2018

(in Armenian – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/resolution_14-17-9-2018_hy/ in Russian –  https://aga-tribunal.info/resolution_14-17-9-2018/) Resolution of the first International scientific practical conference on September 14-17, 2018 “Baku 1918. Continuation of the Armenian Genocide”, dedicated to 100-th anniversary of the massacres of Armenians in Baku in September 1918.

Statement of the Coordinating Council of Russian-Armenian Organizations on the 30th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Sumgait

At the end of February 2018, the 30th anniversary of the bloody events in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait is marked. Since then, the word “Sumgait” has become an appellative word. It became synonymous with barbarism and obscurantism. That days, under the direct leadership of the Azerbaijani authorities, with the criminal connivance of the party and Soviet authorities in Moscow, was committed the first in the USSR monstrous on cruelty and mass crime on the basis of ethnic hatred.

Comment by Deputy Foreign Minister on the 25th anniversary of Maragha tragedy

in Armenian – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/mfa_10-4-2017_hy/ in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/mfa_10-4-2017/ Comment by Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan on the 25th anniversary of Maragha tragedy April 10, 2017 Web site of MFA of Armenia Today marks one of the darkest, yet not widely known pages of the Nagorno-Karabakh war, when 25 years ago Azerbaijan committed gross violation of the International Humanitarian Law.

Statement of the standing committee of foreign relations of the National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh on February 28, 2017

in Armenian – https://aga-tribunal.info/en/artsakh-20-1-2017-hy/ in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/artsakh-20-1-2017/ Statement of the standing committee of foreign relations of the National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh on the 29th anniversary of pogroms of Armenian population in Sumgait February 28, 2017 Source

Statement of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic National Assembly in connection with the 26th anniversary of the massacre of the Armenian population in the city of Baku

in Armenian – https://aga-tribunal.info/en/artsakh-20-1-2016-hy/ in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/artsakh-20-1-2016/ Statement of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic National Assembly in connection with the 26th anniversary of the massacre of the Armenian population in the city of Baku

Statement of the Parliamentary Group and Factions of the NKR National Assembly on Jan 20, 2015

in Armenian – https://aga-tribunal.info/en/artsakh-20-1-2015-hy/ in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/artsakh-20-1-2015/ Statement of the Parliamentary Group and Factions of the NKR National Assembly in connection with the 25th anniversary of the massacre of the Armenian population in the city of Baku January 20, 2015