The Start And Process Of The Sumgait Pogroms Of The Armenian Population

Abstract

There are a lot of testimonies, reports of international organisations, court evidence, investigative-judicial protocols as well as court verdicts on the massacres of the Armenian population in the city of Sumgait (Sumqayit) in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan, committed from February 27 to February 29 in 1988. The aforementioned documents and evidence allow us to comprehensively present the course of events. However, it should be highlighted that in political and, in some cases, scientific circles, these tragic events are sometimes viewed as mere hooliganism, a result of exclusively hooligan-motivated killings.