The Armenian Genocide in Sumgait, between 27 and 29, 1988, was thoroughly planned and refined in advance, and there are many facts confirming it. The materials and testimonies have been collected as a result the fact-finding work carried out by us also come to prove that the Armenian Genocide in Sumgait was organized in detail. Moreover, we have periodically published these testimonies in various research works.
Hence, we present yet another interview with an eye-witness to our reader. The interview with Eleonora Tsatryan was taken and written down in 2011 in Yerevan. Our next interview with Tsatryan was in November 2020, which we published recently.
On February 20, 1988 Eleonora Tsatryan and her husband went to a relative’s place and a few days later witnessed the Armenian Genocide in Sumgait. In 2011, she told us that her relative’s son worked in the police. And, according to the latter, in early January 1988 they were instructed to count the trucks in Sumgait, and that he was fired in early February.
The day before the genocide, crosses were seen on the doors of the flats where Armenians were living, and during the days of the genocide, the traffic of tracks increased several times. At the end of the interview, our interviewee noted that the number of victims of the Armenian genocide in Sumgait is much more than what has been published. Such testimonies are numerous, the publication of which will be vital for studying the Armenian Genocide in Sumgait.
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