Anti-Armenian Pogroms in Sumgait (eyewitness account and archive materials)

Ishkhan Trdatov is one of the 18 thousand of Armenians who survived the horror of the genocide in Sumgait. Besides this, he is a true hero – someone who fought back against the members of the pogrom mobs along with his neighbors for more than 6 hours. They were able to protect their families, rescue their children. Despite this, what they have witnessed 31 years ago does not let go from them, fails to be forgotten… Today Ishkhan presents the story to us the way it has happened…

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Sumgait pogrom. Photo evidence
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