NKR PRESIDENT ISSUES STATEMENT COMMEMORATING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
April 24, 2010 – 11:21 AMT 06:21 GMT

On April 24, President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan issued
a statement in commemoration of the 95th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide, reported the Central Information Department of the Office
of the Artsakh Republic President.

The statement says:

"Dear compatriots, 95 years ago a monstrous and unprecedented crime,
the Armenian Genocide, was committed. It was the first genocide
of the 20th century; millions of Armenians fall a victim to this,
thousands of Armenian churches and monasteries, schools and colleges
were plundered, a unique civilization was destroyed. The Armenian
nation was deprived from the great part of its historical Motherland
and spread all over the world.

For our people, these 95 years have been the years of struggle and
creation, survival and restoration of historical justice. However,
we have not been alone in this struggle; the progressive mankind
has been standing side by side with us. We are grateful to all those
who gave a helping hand and shelter to the refugee Armenians having
escaped from slaughter.

Many countries have recognized and condemned the Genocide. It
is important both for us and the whole mankind because in this way
future massacres could be prevented and excluded. Impunity is an evil
in itself generating new crimes. The Holocaust masterminded by the
Nazis, Armenian pogroms in Sumgait and Baku and a number of other
crimes are just a few testimonies of that.

Today, be bow our heads to the memory of innocent victims of the
Genocide. The best way to immortalize their memory is to build
independent and powerful statehood, to further strengthen the
Armenia-Artsakh-Diaspora trinity realizing nationwide programs and
goals. Every single Armenian must do everything possible to make our
Motherland powerful and invincible, flourishing and prosperous."