Armenian SSR. Freedom Square (Theater Square) in Yerevan. A protest held by residents of the city and Armenian refugees from Sumgait (Azerbaijani SSR), where ethnic riots (Sumgait pogrom) took place in February 1988, accompanied by massive violence against the Armenian population. Some of the protesters, who have gone on hunger strike, have settled down at the monument to Alexander Spendiaryan. The participants express their support of the demands of the Armenians living in the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region to transfer the region from the Azerbaijani SSR to the Armenian SSR (Karabakh Movement).
