The US Embassy in Armenia commemorated the Armenians who were killed in the Sumgait pogroms in 1988.
"Today we join the Armenians in mourning and paying tribute to the memory of those who lost their lives in Sumgait in 1988," the message of the embassy said.
In 1988 in the period between February 27 and 29, in the city of Sumgait of Soviet Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani authorities organized a massacre and mass deportation of the Armenian population of the city at the state level.
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