AN EXHIBITION ENTITLED "THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ON THE FIRST PAGES OF THE FOREIGN PRESS" IN GENOCIDE MUSEUM-INSTITUTE
ARMENPRESS
APRIL 22, 2010
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, APRIL 22, ARMENPRESS: An exhibition entitled "The Armenian
Genocide on the First Pages of the Foreign Press" opened today in the
Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute. It presents the history of the
19-20th century Armenian people – beginning from peaceful every-day
life and working environment till 1894-1896 Sultan Hamid massacres,
the Cilician massacres of 1909 and the genocide of 1915-1922.
"The exhibition is peculiar, for here are exhibited the publications,
images and photos of the leading foreign magazines. It gives an
opportunity of fairly confronting all those who deny the genocide,"
director of the museum Hayk Demoyan noted. According to him, the
compiled and partially presented facts are an undeniable proof that
the topic of the Genocide is up-to-date.
Leading English, Russian, American and Italian magazines have referred
to the topic abroad. There have been paintings next to the publications
and since 1893 – also photos, picturing the massacres of the Armenians
in Turkey, their dislodging, the situation in the Ottoman Turkey.
The exhibition finishes by presentation of Lenin-Ataturk sovereigns.
"These were two tyrants who laid a basis for two states," H. Demoyan
said.
According to him, this will be one of the moving exhibitions; the
originals will be kept in the museum, and the copies will be exhibited
in different countries.