AGMI CONSIDERS EVENTS DEDICATED TO 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
25.03.2010 15:39 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Starting the year 2010, Armenian Genocide Museum
Institute will consider events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of
Genocide, AGMI director Hayk Demoyan said.

During a news conference in Yerevan, Mr. Demoyan announced the
list of events to be held in commemoration of the 95th anniversary
of Genocide. "On April 19-20, Yerevan will host an international
conference on Genocide. On April 22, the museum will hold an exhibition
entitled "Armenian Genocide in headlines", featuring foreign newspapers
highlighting the issue. Exclusive materials collected over the
last year will be demonstrated in one of museum halls on April 23,"
he stated.

For the first time in the museum’s history, the scholarship after
Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent who first introduced
the term Genocide, was established for students intending to major
in Armenian Studies.

Next year, the museum plans to hold an international conference
entitled "Reaction of Scandinavian countries to the Armenian Genocide."

He also informed that the territory of the museum will be enlarged.

The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic
destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during
and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and
deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to
lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths
reaching 1.5 million.

The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the
Genocide survivors.