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Sumgayit.com website will be launched on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of Armenian massacre in Sumgait. The names and personal data of Armenians who were killed in the massacre in Sumgait will be posted on the website, Chairman of the Young Union of Yerevan State University Alumni Gevorg Melkonyan told reporters in Yerevan.

We will remind that Sumgait department was launched on the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia - www.genproc.am/sumgait - in 2010, featuring the materials of criminal cases on Armenian massacres in Soviet Azerbaijan’s territory in the late 1980s and in Nagorno-Karabakh in the early 1990s. The website posts evidence by eyewitnesses, people, who experienced the massacre, their relatives and successors, photos and documents, lists of those killed, kidnapped and missing.

Sumgayit.com website will be trilingual – in Armenian, English and Russian.

“We must prove that the massacre was state-level. Non-condemnation of the Armenian massacre in Sumgait led to the Armenian massacres in Maragha and Baku,” said Melkonyan.

He called on everybody who has photos or data of people missing or killed during the massacre of Sumgait to provide them. 

“This is very important. The more evidence we get the wider is the recognition,” said Gevorg Melkonyan.