in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/feb-28/
On May 25, 2005, the Armenian Parliament adopted the Law ՀՕ-105, and President R. Kocharyan signed it on June 16, 2005 with the following wording (translation in English by AGA-Tribunal.info):
February 28 is the Day of Remembrance for the victims of planned pogroms (mass murders) in the Azerbaijan SSR and for the protection of the rights of the deported Armenian population.
This Law was adopted in addition to the Law on holidays and memorable dates ՀՕ-200, which was adopted on July 24, 2001 and contained 16 memorable dates. Unfortunately even 11 years after the hell in Baku in 1990, the parliament did not show the will to adopt a day to honor the memory of the victims of the crimes committed by Azerbaijan. Another 4 years have passed and only in the 15th year after the atrocities in Baku and the final exodus of Armenians from Azerbaijan – 15 years later!! (almost a whole generation, most of the refugees-exiles had left Armenia by that time) – the Armenian parliament did adopt an official day of remembrance.
The memorable date was just symbolically chosen Fenruary 28 – one of the the dates of the atrocities in Sumgayit, but the wording in the Law does not specify the city and the year-period. Therefore, despite the indication in the Law of the Soviet period of Azerbaijan, on this day it is necessary to commemorate all Armenian victims of the crimes of Azerbaijan in different periods since 1918 – since the massacre of tens of thousands of peaceful Armenians in September 1918 in Baku.
The genocidal policy and acts of genocide by Azerbaijan continued for a century in the so-called Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as in the Azerbaijan SSR, and also in present-day Azerbaijan after the collapse of the USSR. This policy and acts on the part of Turkey and Azerbaijan have been and remain a single process.
On February 13, 1991, the Supreme Council of the Armenian SSR adopted a Resolution in which the atrocities by Azerbaijan were TWICE called Genocide. This Resolution has not been annulled or changed. However, after 1991, the Armenian authorities, serving external interests, moreover, to please the enemy, did not show political will in relation to the Truth, to a full legal assessment and true qualification of the atrocities by Azerbaijan.
The 2005 Law refers to the “protection of the rights of the deported Armenian population”. However, all years after this Law, probably under the influence of external forces, the implementation of this part of the Law was violated by all branches of government. The first right of the deported, or rather, the expelled population was and is the right to the Truth and to the correct qualification of the atrocities by Azerbaijan. The Armenian authorities are obliged to stop violating the Law and recognize the Truth as it is: to recognize the irrefutable fact that the crimes committed by Azerbaijan were precisely acts of genocide.