Today, we join with Armenians mourning and acknowledging all who lost their lives in Sumgait in 1988, the U.S. Embassy in Armenia wrote on Facebook.

34 years ago, on February 27-29, according to the plan of the Azerbaijani SSR authorities, pogroms of the Armenian population of Sumgait were carried out, the victims of which were hundreds of Armenians, including women, children and the elderly.