AGMI considers events dedicated to 100th anniversary of GenocideMarch 25, 2010 - 15:39 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Starting the year 2010, Armenian Genocide Museum Institute will consider events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Genocide, AGMI director Hayk Demoyan said. During a news conference in Yerevan, Mr. Demoyan announced the list of events to be held in commemoration of the 95th anniversary of Genocide. "On April 19-20, Yerevan will host an international conference on Genocide. On April 22, the museum will hold an exhibition entitled "Armenian Genocide in headlines", featuring foreign newspapers highlighting the issue. Exclusive materials collected over the last year will be demonstrated in one of museum halls on April 23," he stated. For the first time in the museum's history, the scholarship after Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent who first introduced the term Genocide, was established for students intending to major in Armenian Studies. Next year, the museum plans to hold an international conference entitled "Reaction of Scandinavian countries to the Armenian Genocide." He also informed that the territory of the museum will be enlarged. The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths reaching 1.5 million. The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the Genocide survivors. The Armenian Genocide The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres and deportations, involving forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths reaching 1.5 million. Top stories President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. Partner news | Russia accuses West of preparing invasion of CSTO countries NATO is preparing an invasion of the CSTO countries, the number of provocations in the air is growing, Sergei Shoigu has said. Armenia: Rescue workers restore pedestrian bridge for flood-hit community Rescue workers on Wednesday, June 5 restored a pedestrian bridge in the town of Alaverdi in Armenia’s north. U.S. “deeply troubled” by Azerbaijan's arrest of civil society members The United States is deeply troubled by the continued arrest of members of Azerbaijani civil society, Matthew Miller has said. Turkey condemns Uruguay’s recognition of Armenian Genocide Turkey has condemned a newly passed law in Uruguay that recognizes the Armenian Genocide, TRT reports. |