YOUNG ACTIVISTS ISSUE A STATEMENT TO UN AND WORLD COMMUNITY

Aysor
Jan 19 2010
Armenia

Today, Armenia’s students and youth organisations’ members have
organized an action timed to the 20th anniversary of the 1990 Massacres
in Azerbaijan.

Young activists said Massacres of 1988-1990s remain unrecognized and
not investigated while all these ethnic holocaust and deportations
against Armenian population of Azerbaijan are genocide.

"We believe this action is important as at the moment the process of
settlement of the Karabakh conflict is on the stage. So we must call
for international community. Karabakh cannot be part of Azerbaijan,"
said the chairman of the ideological commission of the youth wing of
the Republican Party of Armenia, Edgar Hovhannisian.

The youth has also issued a statement to international organisations,
the United Nations, and civil society organizations.

"We claim to repossess rights of those half a million deported
Armenians and other peoples, to recognize and condemn crimes by
Azerbaijan, who has made racism a national-oriented policy and
threatens region with new massacres. We claim to look up to rights of
the people of the Karabakh to live free and safely with all democratic
criteria," said in the statement.

As soon as the action ended, young activists went to the
Tsitsernakaberd Memorial to pay a tribute to victims of genocide.