Bako Sahakyan sends an address in connection with the 1915 Genocide
victim day

STEPANAKERT, APRIL 24, ARMENPPRESS: On 24 April President of the
Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan sent an address in connection with the
1915 Genocide victim day. Central Information Department of the Office
of the NKR President Office told Armenpress that the address runs as
follows:

`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 Jewish Holocaust organized by the
Nazis, Armenian pogroms in Sumgait, Baku and a number of other crimes
are just a few testimonies of that.

Dear friends,

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’.