YEREVAN LAUNCHES CONFERENCE ON 1990 MASSACRES IN AZERBAIJAN
Aysor
Jan 19 2010
Armenia
Today Yerevan launched a conference dedicated to the 20th anniversary
of the 1990 Massacres in Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s National Assembly’s member Larisa Alaverdian said all those
massacres are called and recognized as genocide. "Genocide is not a
crime against a single nation. It is a crime by a group, generally at
government, against the whole humanity," she said. In her opinion,
all science circles, not only, historians and ethnologists, must
rethink the reasons of these brutal actions.
The conference has been launched at the National Academy of Science of
Armenia. It was attended by Public Chamber’s member Vladimir Movsisian,
Director of the Institute of History of NAS Ashot Melkonian, the
former foreign minister Arman Melikian, and some guests from Russia.
The movie of memories, testimonies by the refugees, and documentary
episodes of those days, the ‘Baku, January 1990: an Ordinary Genocide’
film was screened at the conference. The film is dedicated to the
memory of those hundreds of killed people, and dozens of hundreds of
those people who had to leave Baku.