CANBERRA: On Wednesday, 16 March 2016, the Federal Member
for Bennelong, Mr. John Alexander, spoke in the Federation Chamber of
Australia's Parliament to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the Sumgait
Pogroms that took place in February 1988. During his address, Alexander spoke
of the oppressive history of the region towards Armenians, stemming from the
Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923 by the former Ottoman Empire, to the
anti-Armenian Sumgait Pogroms, and how Azerbaijan’s poor human rights record
has continued today.
Alexander talked about the history of the Sumgait Pogroms
and how peaceful demonstrations held by the Armenian people living in
Azerbaijan and in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh to re-unite with Armenia,
turned sour as violence broke out “as an act of collective punishment”. He then
went on to mention the manner of which destruction was brought about by
Azerbaijani mobs, through systematic attacks and assaults on the Armenians of
Sumgait, as well as brutal murders, tortures, burning, and rape of women and
young girls.
Alexander stressed that the crimes committed in Sumgait
“were never adequately prosecuted by the then Soviet or Azerbaijani
authorities” and led to his explanation of Azerbaijan’s poor human rights
record, and specifically mentioning the case of Ramil Safarov.
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