The Azerbaijani authorities made little effort to punish those responsible. instead attempting to cover up the atrocities in Sumgait to this day. as well as denying the role of senior government officials in instigating the violence. Unsurprisingly. it was not the end of the violence. and was followed by additional attacks. including the 1990 pogrom in Baku. The Sumgait massacre and the subsequent attacks on ethnic Armenians. resulted in the virtual disappearance of a once thriving population of 450.000 Armenians living in Azerbaijan. and culminating in the war launched against the people of Nagorno Karabakh. That war resulted in thousands dead on both sides and created over one million refugees in both Armenia and Azerbaijan. Time has not healed the wounds of those murdered in the pogroms in Sumgait. Kirovabad. and Baku.
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