 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mushure memazuva akati wandei ekusanzwisisika kwevanhu vakuru veMoscow vakagara muguta nemaparachute uye matangi. Vanenge vaArmenia vose 14 000 vaiva muSumgait vakatiza muguta racho pashure pokuurayiwa kwacho. Mutori wenhau weBritish Thomas de Waal, uyo muna 2005 akaburitsa bhuku rezvinyorwa Black Garden pakurwisana kweKarabakh, anonyora kuti: Chisimba chekutanga chakanyanya kuitika munguva yekupedzisira yeSoviet yaive pogrom yevaArmenia muSumgaitmhirizhonga yakakonzerwa nedzinza mutaundi reSumgait muAzerbaijan SSR muna Kukadzi 1988, ichiperekedzwa nechisimba chakakura pamusoro pevagari veArmenian veguta pamwe nekupamba, kupisa moto, kuuraya nekuparadza zvinhu. Muna February 1988 pamusangano wePolitburo weCentral Committee muMoscow zvakazivikanwa zviri pamutemo kuti kuparadza kukuru uye kuuraya muSumgait kwakaitwa zvichibva parudzi. Ipapo ndipo apo mudzidzi Ziya Bunyadov, uyo Tom de Waal anodana mubhuku rake kuti Armenophobe mukuru weAzerbaijan, akava nomukurumbira nenyaya yake inoti Sei Sumgait? umo akapomera vaArmenian vakaurayiwa kuti ndivo vakaronga kuparadza kwacho. 