On February 5 the European Parliament will host a conference on “The Forgotten Refugees: What Happened to the Armenians of Baku?”
The conference organized by the European Armenian federation for Justice and Democracy (EAJD) will give an insight into the situation of the Armenian minority in Soviet Azerbaijan in the last months of the existence of the Soviet Union and into what became known as the Baku pogroms.
What happened to the
300.000 Armenians living in the Azerbaijani cities? How did the international
community and the responsible international organizations react to their
deportations? First and foremost, how did the eyewitnesses experience this and
how did it impact their lives? What are the lessons learnt and not learnt
vis-à-vis the Armenian refugees?
The conference will feature distinguished British
humanitarian, Life Peer and former deputy speaker of the House of Lords the
Baroness Caroline Cox, eye-witnesses such as the American-Armenian author,
lawyer, human rights advocate Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte and ULB lecturer
David Babaev who survived the Baku pogroms as children and ended up in
different corners of the world.
