14.12.2024


Participants of the 5th Global Forum “Against the Crime of Genocide” titled “Strengthening the Effectiveness of International Mechanisms for Early Warning and Early Response to Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities” which took place in Yerevan from December 12 to 13, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial, on December 13.

The guests were welcomed by the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI), Edita Gzoyan. She accompanied the guests to the Armenian Genocide Memorial, presenting the history of its creation. The director of AGMI also discussed the three khachkars (cross-stones) erected in the Tsitsernakaberd complex in memory of the Armenians who fell victim to massacres organized by the Azerbaijani government in the late 20th century in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad (Ganja), and Baku, as well as the stories of the five freedom fighters buried opposite the Memorial Wall during the Artsakh liberation struggle, emphasizing the connection between these events and the Armenian Genocide.

The participants of the Global Forum laid flowers near the Eternal Fire and honored the memory of the innocent martyrs of the Armenian Genocide with a moment of silence.

Edita Gzoyan then accompanied the guests to the Memorial Wall, where small urns containing soil from the graves of several foreign public and political figures, intellectuals, and missionaries, who raised their voices in protest against the mass massacres and genocide of Armenians carried out by the Ottoman government at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, are placed in specially designed niches.

The Global Forum participants showed particular interest in the Istanbul Trials of 1919-1921 and the role of the Armenian Genocide in international law.

The participants also visited the Armenian Genocide Museum, where they were introduced to the permanent and temporary exhibitions under the guidance of Lusine Abrahamyan, Deputy Director of AGMI for Museum Works.