ON 24 APRIL PRESIDENT OF THE ARTSAKH REPUBLIC BAKO SAHAKYAN
Azat Artsakh Newspaper
April 24, 2010
Nagorno Karabakh Republic
sent an address in connection with the 1915 Genocide victim day.
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".
CENTRAL INFORMATION DEPARTMENT OF THE OFFICE OF THE ARTSAKH REPUBLIC
PRESIDENT