The Azerbaijanis made propaganda statements at the administrative borders of the village of Khramort

On February 25, at about 6 pm, representatives of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces turned on an audio recording with a loudspeaker at the administrative borders of the village of Khramort in the Askeran district of the Republic of Artsakh, in which it was stated that residents should leave the settlement, that it’s allegedly Azerbaijani territory and so on. Zorik Abrahamyan, the head of Khramort village told Infocom that the villagers don’t even think about leaving the village.

"They want to put psychological pressure on the people to panic. But it doesn't affect us," Abrahamyan said.

On February 26, the negotiations of Russian peacekeepers with the Azerbaijani side had a certain positive impact. In the afternoon, they didn’t demand to leave the village over the loudspeaker, instead, the mugham about the fake pogroms of "Khojalu" sounded twice, the State Service of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Artsakh reports.

The peacekeepers assured that this problem will be solved within the next 2-3 days.

Azerbaijan continues its policy of racial hatred towards Armenians and the destruction of the Armenian cultural heritage. RA MFA

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia has issued a statement on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of the massacres of Armenians in Sumgait. 

"34 years ago, on February 27-29, with the organization of the Soviet Azerbaijani authorities and the connivance of law enforcement, the massacres of the Armenian population in the city of Sumgait were carried out, resulting in the killing of hundreds of Armenians, including women, children, elderly, and forcible displacement of thousands.

Mass killings and tortures against the Armenians, that were aimed at forcibly suppressing the democratic expression of will of the Armenian of Artsakh and the exercise of their inalienable right to self-determination on the basis of existing legal mechanisms, later continued in Baku, Kirovabad, and other settlements of Azerbaijan with Armenian population. Azerbaijan responded to the expression of the will of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to free and secure life in their homeland by carrying out a policy of collective punishment against Armenians, which later turned into full-scale war unleashed against the people of Nagorno-Karabakh.

More than three decades after the Sumgait atrocities Azerbaijan continues its policy of racial hatred towards Armenians and the destruction of the Armenian cultural heritage," the statement reads.

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