ArmInfo. In Vilnius, an exhibition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the pogroms of Armenians in the Azeri Sumgait was opened in the Museum of Genocide and Resistance. The opening ceremony was attended by ambassadors, statesmen, representatives of the Armenian community.
As the RA MFA press service reports, Armenian Ambassador to Lithuania Tigran Mkrtchyan noted that the events that took place in Sumgait in 1988 were unprecedented in terms of atrocity. The ambassador added that the Sumgayit pogroms were the response of Soviet Azerbaijan to the absolute fair demand of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh for independence. Mkrtchyan also stressed that the world community was shocked by such atrocity, and it is no accident that many recognized experts draw parallels between the pogroms in Sumgait and the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Tigran Mkrtchyan also stressed that the situation for these 30 years in Azerbaijan has not improved. "Anti- Armenian propaganda starts in kindergartens and schools," he said, adding that the April 2016 war was another manifestation of Azerbaijani Armenian phobia, when the bodies of Armenian soldiers were beheaded, and the perpetrators who committed these atrocities, were awarded by the authorities of the AR.
After the exhibition, a documentary film by Marina Grigoryan was titled "Sumgait of 1988. The usual genocide". The exhibition will be open until April 22.