International conference on 100th anniversary of Adana massacres to be
held in Yerevan on April 20-21

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian Genocide Museum
Institute (AGMI) will organize an international conference dedicated to
the 100th anniversary of the Armenian massacres in Adana province of
the Ottoman Empire in April 1909. Historians from Armenia, Italy,
Hungary, Austria, France, the US and Sweden will take part in the
conference to be held on April 20-21. They will mainly focus on the
motives of the Adana massacres, as well as their consequences and the
international response to these tragic events.

Acts of genocide against Armenians were committed as long ago as
1894-1896 when some 300 thousand Armenians were killed or deported in
the Ottoman Empire. However, according to a press release of the AGMI,
the 1909 Adana massacres became the symbolic prelude to the policy of
genocide organized and conducted with respect to the Armenian
population at the state level in the Ottoman Empire.

The Adana massacres marked the start of the large-scale policy of
extermination of Armenians. This policy continued during World War I
and after it, as a result of which one and a half million Armenians
were killed and about 300 thousand were deported from their native
cradle.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress