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Marina Girgoryan, the project coordinator of “Ordinary Genocide” series, called for the Azerbaijani perpetrators responsible for massacres of Armenians in Sumgait, Baku and Maragha to be brought to justice by issuing international arrest warrants against them.

She made the proposal at today’s parliamentary hearings titled “The Sumgait pogroms: Armenophobia as state policy of Azerbaijan” dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Sumgait pogroms.

“I wander why until now, when 30 years have passed, an international arrest warrant has not been issued through Interpol against any of those Azerbaijani perpetrators, whose named are known. One of them is Shahin Tagiyev, the commander of Gurtulush battalion, who has been declared the first hero of Azerbaijan for committing the Maragha massacres, is today enjoying life in Sweden,” she said.   

“I have proposed to have an international arrest warrant issued against him, but unfortunately the proposal was not implemented,” Girgoryan highlighted.

She also stressed the need to issue an international arrest warrant against another Azerbaijani perpetrator Ayaz Mutalibov, who was Azerbaijan’s prime minister during the Armenian massacres in Baku in January 1990.

Marina Girgoryan highlighted the Azerbaijani officer who beheaded Armenian serviceman Kyaram Sloyan during the 2016 April war must also be placed on Interpol wanted list.

“This is a crucial issue. Punishing those perpetrators will also help to prevent such crimes. These are just three names; I could have announced more names, and we obtain all the necessary evidence to prove the crimes of those people,” she said.