US Embassy in Armenia commemorates victims of Sumgait pogrom

The US Embassy in Armenia has commemorated the victims of the Sumgait pogrom.

“Today, we join with Armenians mourning and acknowledging all who lost their lives in Sumgait in 1988,” the embassy said on social media.

In late February 1988, Azerbaijanis began a state-sponsored massacre of the Armenian population in the Azeri city of Sumgait, which became known as the Sumgait pogrom.

Hundreds of Armenians, including women and children, were killed. Thousands of Armenians were forcibly displaced.