DZIDZERNAGAPERT TO HOST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADANA MASSACRE
1597_4/18/2009_1
Friday, April 17, 2009
YEREVAN–The Dzidzernagapert Genocide Museum-Institute will organize
an international conference on April 20-21, 2009, dedicated to the
centennial anniversary of the Armenian massacres in Adana district
of the Ottoman Empire.
An estimated 30,000 Armenians in the province were reported killed in
events that coincided with the April 1909 counter-revolution stages
by supporters of Sultan Abdul Hamid II who had been forced to restore
the Ottoman Constitution as a result of the 1908 Young Turk revolution.
Historians from Armenia, Italy, Hungary, Austria, France, USA
and Sweden who specialize in and around the fields of Genocide
and crimes against humanity will participate in the conference,
presenting papers exploring the many facets of the issue, including
the events and motives that led to the spring massacres, as well as
the international response to the atrocities.