"AZERBAIJAN’S STATE TERRORISM AND ETHNIC CLEANSING POLICY AGAINST NAGORNO KARABAKH" INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE LAUNCHES IN STEPANAKERT

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2010-03-23
STEPANAKERT

"Azer baijan’s State Terrorism and Ethnic Cleansing Policy against
Nagorno Karabakh" international conference launched March 22 in
Stepanakert dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Shushi tragedy
and 20th anniversary of Baku pogroms. Before the opening of the
conference a photo exposition entitled "Licensed Genocide" took place.

"This scientific-practical conference is a regular display of
our collective memory. It is highlighted with the conduction in
self-governing Nagorno Karabakh which means that the perception of
history from just the scientific platform enters the legal-political
evaluation – that is to say becomes a state attitude," chairman of
the National Assembly of the NKR Ashot Ghulyan said.

The conference, he said, testifies that the NKR will reach that
the violence exerted against Eastern Transcaucasian Armenians, the
displacements, pogroms and ethnic cleansings get a worthy assessment
in accordance with an international right and their organizers be
subjected to responsibility.

On the first day of the conference the first five reports contained the
second decade of the 20th century. The interesting was particularly
the study of senior scientific worker of the History Museum of the
RA National Academy of Sciences Gayane Makhmuryan of the 1919-1920
documents of the US Department of State where it is clearly noted that
Azerbaijan’s regular army was acting against the Armenian population
of Karabakh and Zangezur. This fact shows that the hypothesis spread
by the Azerbaijani sources as if Armenians massacred them to press
their fight does not correspond to reality.

As far as the questions of participants to the speakers were a lot,
the head of the "Artsakh" expedition chairing the session Hamlet
Petrosyan decided to conduct seminars after the sessions.

The conference has been organized by the NKR Education and Science,
Culture and Youth Affairs Ministries, Artsakh State University, Artsakh
Historic-Geological Museum and Shushi’s "Katchar" scientific-cultural
center.

The conference will last until March 24. Twenty five reporters from
Artsakh, Russia, Germany and Armenia will come forth.