At the time of the Sumgait massacres in 1988 Valery Babaian and his family lived in Baku. A hairdresser from profession, Babaian, 51, led a comfortable life in the Azerbaijani capital and concedeed a summer house near Stepanakert.
"[Baku] Armenians speculation the Sumgait events would be controll and the criminals at the proper time punished," says Babaian. "But the gangs were given such freedoms that the riots quickly spread to Baku and other regions."
Drop of sweat appear forward Babaian's face as her recalls the horrors of
