A Ceremony of Tribute at Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex
24.04.2013
Today is the Remembrance Day of the Armenian Genocide victims. Every year on April 24 hundreds of thousands of Armenians from Armenia, Diaspora as also numerous foreigners march to Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex to put flowers at the eternal fire and pay tribute to memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide.
President of Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, Catholicos of all Armenians His Holiness Garegin II and Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan accompanied by the members of parliament and government visited Tsitsernakaberd. They honored the memory of innocent victims, after which His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians prayed for the repose of the victims’ souls.
Senior officers of the armed forces, political figures, intellectuals, and heads of the diplomatic missions accredited to Armenia, as well as members of patriotic unions and social organizations also paid tribute to memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide.
The dens flow to Tsitsernakaberd continues.
Hayk Demoyan’s Annual Press Conference Took Place in Museum-Institute
23.04.2013
The annual press conference by Hayk Demoyan, the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, took place in the hall of Institute. During the press conference Hayk Demoyan presented previous year’s main achievements of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute. The main emphasis was made upon the extensive construction that began in 2012, on the new museum exhibition, as well as on the series of events still in progress.
“The main exhibition area will be increased by 2.5 times. These are not mere numbers; they assume long and hard work, as we are organizing the exhibition basing on absolutely new concept. A new museum culture will be introduced in Armenia” mentioned Demoyan. In his word the new exhibition will be equipped with latest technologies.
Hayk Demoyan underlined the following main directions in referring to AGMI’s 2012-2013 activity.
• Events being organized on the eve of 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
• International cooperation between museums
The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute continues to carry out its main mission simultaneous to various and geographically extensive work implemented on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The history of the Armenian Genocide will be presented to foreign and Armenian public through permanent and temporary exhibitions, as well as scientific researches on the problems of the Armenian Genocide. The main objectives of the Museum-Institute are the organization of the collective materials on literature, photographs, documents, as well as other archives concerning the life of Western Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and the research on history of the Armenian Genocide. The library and archives of the Museum-Institute have recently been replenished with valuable and exclusive collections especially during last years.
Presentation of Books held at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute
23.04.2013
Today, at 12:30, the presentation of the books published by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute during the last five years took place in the hall of the Institute. During this event, over twenty-five volumes, issued within different series, were presented.
The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute carries out its publishing activities within the series of "Diplomatic Papers," "The Survivor’s Memoirs", "Eyewitness Testimonies," etc.
The presented volumes include both republished and translated original literature and the monographs of the AGMI researchers.
The director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan noted in his speech that the publishing of books is the most important part of AGMI’s strategy.
One of the researchers of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Gevorg Vardanyan (PHD) and Meline Anumyan (PHD) presented their monographs.
World renowned genocide expert Dr. Israel W. Charny donates his personal library to Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute
22.04.2013
Israel Charny, renowned genocide expert of Jewish origin, the editor in chief of Encyclopedia of Genocide, donated his personal library to Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute. The library includes over 700 volumes on Genocide studies - theoretical literature, books concerning the Jewish Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide.
This rich collection will be placed in the new library building of the Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute. The AGMI intends to open a separate hall named after Israel Charny.
This is the largest donation to the AGMI library in the course of the past five years. It will provide an opportunity to conduct research work in the field of comparative genocide studies.
AGMI has recently published the volume “From Dardanelles to Palestine” by Sargis Torosian, memoirs of an exceptional significance.
20.04.2013
Memoirs of Sargis Torosian represent the odyssey of an Armenian officer in Ottoman army during WWI. The unexpected characters and developments, the representation of the history of genocide from an unforeseen point of view make the memoirs of Sargis Torosian extremely interesting and engaging. And the memoirs leave the readers with an unforgettable impression.
The main character didn't suffer the Genocide; however he became a victim of the Armenian Genocide, one of the biggest crimes of the 20th century, organized by the Ottoman government.
The unique memoirs of Sargis Torosian with their unprecedented content tell us a life story of an Armenian military officer who provided an outstanding service to Ottoman Turkey by his duty. The memoirs demonstrate heroism and self-sacrifice, betrayal and conspiracy, love and pain of loss…
Memoirs of Sargis Torosian have recently been published also in Turkish. The volume aroused significant interest among the Turkish people and became a subject to various interpretations and disputes.
The volume is the first Armenian translation of the memoirs to be published. It consists of 17 chapters.
An Exhibition Dedicated to the 80th Anniversary of Franz Werfel’s “The 40 Days of Musa Dagh” opened at the National Library
17.04.2013
An exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the first publication of the famous novel “The 40 Days of Musa Dagh” by Franz Werfel opened today in cooperation with the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute and RA National Library.
Hayk Demoyan, the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute and Tigran Zargaryan, the director of RA National Library had opening speeches. Hayk Demoyan handed a golden medal issued under the “Gratitude” nomination to the National Library.
The historical novel “The 40 Days of Musa Dagh” describes one of the heroic episodes of the Cilician Armenians’ struggle during the Armenian Genocide. Thanks to this struggle and French warships, more than four thousand people were miraculously saved from the impending extermination. This novel is justly considered a monumental work the contents of which fully represent the Armenians’ struggle for self-preservation and the horrors of the Armenian Genocide in the frame of fiction.
The exhibition which was presented in the National Library includes more than fifty publications of the novel which were published in different years and in different languages and are part of the collections of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute and National Library.
The exhibition will be open until April 25.
The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Published the Monograph “Recognition and Condemnation: Young Turks Trials (1919-1921 and 1926) by Meline Anumyan
16.04.2013
The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute published Meline Anumyan’s (PHD) monograph “Recognition and Condemnation: Young Turks Trials (1919-1921 and 1926). The work is dedicated to the study of the lawsuits issued over the massacres and deportations of the Armenians in Military Tribunals of the Ottoman Empire during 1919-1921 and the trials of the Young Turks held in the Independent courts of the Turkish Republic in 1926.
The political atmosphere in Turkey after the establishment of Mudros armistice, as well as the discussions on Armenian deportations and massacres that emerged in Ottoman press and in two-chamber parliament at the end of 1918 are presented in the first chapter of current monograph . The author also refers to the investigations launched during this period in Turkey against those, responsible for the Armenian genocide.
The cases on Armenians deportations and massacres of 1919-1921 filed in the Military Tribunals of Istanbul and trials of the Young Turks during 1919-1920 are studied in the second chapter.
The political developments in Turkey during 1923-1926 are discussed in the third chapter. The author presents Young Turks’ reasons for appearing in the frontlines of opposition after the proclamation of the Turkish Republic, as well as the planned assassination attempt in Izmir against Mustafa Kemal, President of the Turkish Republic. Young Turks had a significant role in the nationalistic struggle. The third chapter is also dedicated to the study of the case filed over the assassination attempt in Izmir and the one known as Ankara or “Black Band” case. Both cases were heard in Independent courts of the Turkish Republic. At the end of the chapter author makes comparison between Young Turks trials of 1919-1921 and 1926, and emphasizes the fact of preserving Ittihad tradition within the ideology and state governance in the political life of the Turkish Republic.
Armenian Genocide Exhibit Will be Included in Canadian Museum for Human Rights
14.03.2013
WINNIPEG — Calling the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a genocide may hurt lucrative trade between Canada and Turkey but the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is not about to call the slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million people anything other than genocide, the Winnipeg Free Press writes.
When the museum opens in Winnipeg next year, information about the Armenian genocide will be included in its galleries, and it will be called “genocide,” the museum’s head of stakeholder relations said Sunday.
Clint Curle was responding to reports that Turkish Ambassador Tuncay Babali said the Harper government’s decision to brand the First World War-era killing of Armenians as genocide may be hindering a potentially lucrative trading relationship with Turkey.
Deputy Prime Minister of Czech: “Armenian Genocide is the History of All Humanity”
11.04.2013
The delegation headed by the first Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Karel Schwarzenberg visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex today in the morning. The high-ranking official from the Czech Republic laid a wreath and flowers at the Memorial of the Armenian Genocide victims and honored the memory of the innocent victims with a minute of silence.
Karel Schwarzenberg, accompanied by the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan, visited the Armenian Genocide Museum and got acquainted with the exhibition items of the museum. Deputy Prime Minister of Czech left following note in the Commemoration Book: “The centenary of all those horrors will be soon. This is not only your history, but the history of the whole humanity. These photos tell us the terrible truth about what a human being can do.”
Afterwards the first Deputy Prime Minister of Czech had a tour of the Memorial Alley and watered the fir which he planted in 2008.
The Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia Miroslav Lajčák Visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex
10.04.2013
The Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia Miroslav Lajčák, who is in Armenia on an official visit, visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex and put flowers at the Memorial of the Armenian Genocide victims.
Miroslav Lajčák and his accompanying delegation visited the Armenian Genocide Museum and got acquainted with the archive documents and photos concerning the Armenian Genocide, the first genocide of the 20th Century.
The Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia left a note in the Commemoration Book.
It should be noted, that the National Assembly of Slovakia recognized the Armenian Genocide on November 30, 2004.
On the Occasion of the 125th Birth Anniversary of Hedvig Büll
“My Heart is Armenian”
04.03.2013
Hedvig Büll was born in the small city of Haapsalu in Estonia, in 1887. Being the son of a prosperous family, Hedvig Büll got a good education (higher pedagogical education in Saint Petersburg and missionary education in Germany). She knew her mother tongue Estonian, as well as Russian, French, English, German and also learnt Armenian and Turkish while she was in Cilicia within her missionary activities.
In 1909 Hedvig Büll learnt about the Armenian massacres in Adana from the front pages of the European media and made a fateful decision to leave for a remote country to take part in the saving work of the Christian children who had become orphans as a result of the massacres. In 1911 she arrived in Cilicia and began working as a teacher in the “Beytel” Orphanage of Marash founded by the German Evangelical missionaries for the Armenian parentless children. After working there for four years, in 1915 she became witness to the Armenian massacres carried out by the Young Turk authorities. From 1916 until 1919, Hedvig Büll worked at the German orphanage of Harunie Village (south of Marash), which belonged to the same mission. In 1918 thanks to her superhuman efforts, the young missionary, Hedvig Büll, was able to rescue the children of the orphanage from the Turkish exile and impending disaster. In 1919 taking into account the political situation of Cilicia, Hedvig Büll had to leave for Estonia, but her separation from her favorite Armenian nation did not last long.
California Lectures of Suren Manukyan under the Fulbright Occasional Lectures Fund
02.04.2013
On February 11, 2013 Deputy Director of Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights of Rutgers University of New Jersey Suren Manukyan within the framework of the Fulbright Occasional Lectures Fund had a presentation “Mass Participation During the Armenian Genocide: The Sociological Dimension”, hosted by the UCLA Program in Armenian Language and Culture. Manukyan shared ideas and findings of his study with the audience of UCLA students, faculty and members of Armenian community. He focused on need of shift the research of Armenian Genocide from abstractions and impersonal structures to actors. The question “Who were involved and implemented Armenian Genocide?” was discussed. The prominent scholars of Armenian Studies such as Richard Hovhannisian, Sebouh Aslanian, Roubina Peroomian, Peter Cowe as well as students of UCLA attended the lecture.
On Feb 13 Dr.Manukyan had a community meeting in Fresno and presentation “The Perpetrators and Victims during the Armenian Genocide. Socio-Psychological Dimension”. Students, Faculty of CSU-Fresno and members of Armenian community of Fresno attended the lecture. The interesting discussion initiated after the presentation. Professors Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Sergio La Porta, Sona Haroutyunian were among the audience.
On February 14 Suren Manukyan spoke during the class of Armenian History at CSU-Fresno. The main topic was the Structure of perpetrator hierarchy during the Armenian Genocide. The talk was hosted by the Armenian Studies Program and the Center for Armenian Studies at Fresno State. Students were also interested in activities and plans of AGMI-Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute.
Maria Jacobsen 130
29.03.2013
Maria Jacobsen was born in Siim, a small city in Denmark, on November 6, 1882. She was very young when she learnt about the Hamidian massacres (1894-1896) and sufferings of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire from the articles published in Danish media.
The members of the phil-Armenian movement, that began in 1890s in the Scandinavian countries and particularly in Denmark, had various enterprises and made speeches condemning the Hamidian massacres. The Danish branch of the "Women’s Missionary Workers" (K.M.A.) Organization was established in Denmark in 1900: it supported Armenian orphans sheltered in German orphanages of Mush, Van, Marash and Kharberd. In 1906 after completing nursing courses, Maria Jacobsen became a member of the "Women’s Missionary Workers" Organization and left for Kharberd as a missionary to help suffering Armenian people. In November 1907 the young missionary arrived in Kharberd where she was appointed as a director at a small hospital. In a short period she learnt Armenian in order to communicate with local people. At the same time she began writing her diary, which later became a valuable eyewitness testimony of the Armenian Genocide. Maria Jacobsen left her first record in the diary on September 7, 1907, and the last one was dated August 6, 1919. The voluminous diary which has 600 pages mainly presents the deportation and exile of the Armenians of Kharberd and scenes of murders ferociously perpetrated by the Turks from 1915 to 1919. For a long time the Danish missionary who was an eyewitness to the Armenian Genocide kept her diary in a secret as she had taken it out of the Ottoman Empire endangering her life. Maria Jacobsen’s diary was translated into Armenian and after her death it was published in Beirut in 1979.
The International Conference “Armenian Genocide: Challenges on the Eve of Centenary” Continues
23.03.2013
On March 23, the international conference on the eve of centenary of the Armenian Genocide, organized by the State Commission on Coordination of the events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide resumed.
The prominent foreign and the Armenian researchers participated in this international conference. The junior researchers of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute also reported during the third sitting of the conference.
Productive discussion and exchange of ideas took place at the end of the conference. It should be noted that, this international conference on the eve of centenary of the Armenian Genocide, organized by the State Commission on Coordination of the events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide aims to start discussions and make conclusions in three main directions:
a. Further perspectives and directions of the Armenian Genocide studies and organization of museum exhibitions,
b. Imperatives and efficient methods of the fight against the denial,
c. Discussion of compensation for the successors of the Armenian Genocide survivors and victims, and issues related to its legal justification.
Press release
Armenian Genocide: Challenges on the Eve of Centenary
International Conference
21.03.2013
The international conference on the eve of centenary of the Armenian Genocide, organized by the State Commission on Coordination of the events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide aims to start discussions and make conclusions in three main directions:
a. Further perspectives and directions of the Armenian Genocide studies and organization of museum exhibitions,
b. Imperatives and efficient methods of the fight against the denial,
c. Discussion of compensation for the successors of the Armenian Genocide survivors and victims, and issues related to its legal justification.
The conference will be an important harbor for efficient scholarly discussions and necessary conclusions concerning the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, for clear conclusions and recommendations in terms of the scholarly work on not yet observed or less explored issues as well as the potential support for it.
This conference will also allow developing more efficient mechanisms and methods of response to the Turkish denial. Finally, this conference is designed to develop and plan the overall strategy of various events to be organized in the Republic of Armenia and abroad on the occasion of centenary based on the professional and reputable opinion.
The conference is an opportunity to clarify the issue of elimination of consequences of the Armenian Genocide and to develop the further strategy.
The organization of such a conference, in which experts on Armenian Genocide studies take part, will be an important review on the eve of Yerevan conference of International Association of Genocide Scholars in 2015. It will also promote the generation change of Armenian Genocide scholars.
AGMI has recently published Tigran Kalaydjian’s work “Sentinel of Truth: Gourgen Yanikian and the struggle against the denial of the Armenian Genocide”.
19.03.2013
Sentinel of Truth provides a detailed account of the assassination of two Turkish diplomats in California in 1973 by an aggrieved septuagenarian survivor of the Armenian Genocide, and explains how a study of the global campaign against Turkey’s denial of the genocide cannot but include the killings carried out by Gourgen Yanikian.
By describing at length the effects these and subsequent acts of militancy had on the consciousness of diasporan Armenians, Tigran Kalaydjian sheds new light on the activities of the tightly-knit group of people that is spearheading the drive for a comprehensive redress of the human rights disaster of 1915 and elucidates the many facets of the Diaspora’s decades-long struggle for justice.
The author, who lives in Cyprus, is a graduate of the London School of Economics & Political Science, and this book is his first work on the subject of the Armenian Genocide and Turkey’s policy of denial.
Göran Gunner: “Genocide of Armenians Through the Swedish Eyes”
16.03.2013
The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute has recently published the volume “Genocide of Armenians Through the Swedish Eyes” by Göran Gunner.
The book consists of an introduction and 9 chapters. In separate chapters Gunner represents the Hamidian massacres, the Armenian Genocide, planned and implemented by the regime of Young Turks, and the massacres of the Armenians carried out by Kemalists in 1919-1922. The author depicts the Armenian Genocide as the first genocide of the 20th century. The volume is valuable as the author uses a number of reports of Swedish diplomats, eyewitness accounts and press reports. In Chapter 9 Gunner demonstrates the parliamentary debates on the recognition issue of the Armenian Genocide and the position of the Swedish society on this issue.
The volume was first published in Swedish in Sweden, in 2012.
Göran Gunner works at Church of Sweden research department and is an associate professor at Uppsala University.
He has a number of publications on freedom of religion and human rights in Swedish.
The monograph by Gevorg Vardanyan “The Greek Population in the Ottoman Empire and the Asia Minor Disaster (1914 - 1923)” has been published by AGMI
15.03.2013
The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute has published the book by Gevorg Vardanyan (PhD in History) “The Greek Population in the Ottoman Empire and the Asia Minor Disaster (1914 - 1923)”.
This monograph represents the situation of the Greek population in the Ottoman Empire and the Greek Genocide from 1914 to 1923.
The first chapter represents the Greek population distribution in the Ottoman Empire on the eve of the World War I. There is a separate analysis on the legal status of the Greek people from 1908 to 1914.
The second chapter studies the mass deportations and massacres of the Greeks during World War I and during the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-1922 in Eastern Thrace, Eastern Asia Minor, Pontus and in other regions of the Ottoman Empire. The illustration of the Greco-Armenian cooperation in the first quarter of the 20th century is presented in this chapter as well.
The third chapter examines the details of the Lausanne Conference concerning the Greek issue. The parallels between the causes and the mechanisms for the accomplishment of two cases of Genocides (Armenian and Greek) are carried out.
James Bryce-175
10.03.2013
James Bryce, one of the most significant activists of phil-Armenian movement, a jurist and a historian, was born on May 10, 1838, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied at the University of Glasgow and Trinity College, Oxford. Later James Bryce held responsible positions in British cabinet - Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, President of the Board of Trade, and Chief Secretary for Ireland. Bryce was the Ambassador of Great Britain in the USA in 1907-1913.
The first visit of Bryce to Historical Armenia was in 1876 to climb the peak of Biblical Mount Ararat, after which he published the book “Transcaucasia and Ararat” (London, 1877). It’s a narrative of travel notes with several political observations and conclusions. In 1878 , after his voyage to Armenia, James Bryce established the “Anglo-Armenian Association” the first phil-Armenian organization, with Lord Carnarvon as its president and Bryce as its secretary. In 1880 Bryce traveled to Historical Armenia for the second time, visiting also Smyrna and Constantinople.
In 1893 James Bryce initiated the formation of the new “Anglo-Armenian Association” the first president of which was F. Stevenson , a member of British Parliament.
The president of the FRG Bundestag Paid Tribute to the Memory of the innocent Victims of the Armenian Genocide
06.03.2013
On March 6, the delegation headed by the President of the Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany Norbert Lammert, accompanied by the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Hermine Naghdalyan, visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex.
The President of the FRG Bundestag laid a wreath at the Memorial of the Armenian Genocide victims after which the members of the delegation put flowers at the Eternal fire and honored the memory of the innocent victims with a minute of silence. Norbert Lammert and his delegation, accompanied by the director of AGMI Hayk Demoyan, visited the Armenian Genocide Museum where they got acquainted with the exhibition items of the museum. The President of the FRG Bundestag left a note in the Commemoration Book expressing his support to the Armenian nation.
It should be noted that, the National Assembly of FRG has recognized the Armenian Genocide on July 15, 2005.
President of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Riccardo Migliori Visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex
20.02.2013
On February 19, President of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Riccardo Migliori visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex to pay tribute to the memory of the Armenian Genocide Victims. Riccardo Migliori laid a wreath at the Memorial of the Armenian Genocide victims and honored the memory of the innocent victims with a minute of silence.
President of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Riccardo Migliori and his accompanying delegation visited the Armenian Genocide Museum and got acquainted with the archive documents concerning the Armenian Genocide. Migliori left a note in the Commemoration Book.
The members of the delegation also had a tour of the Memorial Alley where Riccardo Migliori, President of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, planted a fir.
Armenian Genocide Education Initiative in the school curriculum of New Jersey
05.02.2013
Deputy Director of AGMI Suren Manukyan participated in the workshop of Armenian Genocide Education Initiative launched by The Center for Peace, Justice and Reconciliation (CPJR), in conjunction with the Northern Valley Curriculum Development Center on Jan. 7, 2013.
Designed to help teachers meet the NJ state standard that mandates the teaching of genocide, the initiative provides professional development workshops, curriculum materials, and other support to educators in secondary schools.
Teachers throughout the district attended the first workshop focusing on the Armenian genocide, led by Prof. Tom La Pointe and Dr. David Eichenholtz and the Associate Director of Rutgers Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution and Human Rights, Prof. Nela Navarro.
Largely regarded as the first genocide of the 20th century, the Armenian genocide provided a template for understanding how patterns of violence and prejudice can lead to mass atrocity. Workshop facilitators connected these patterns to the ongoing concern with violence in schools.
RF Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu Visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex
04.02.2013
On January 29, Sergei Shoigu, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, who arrived in Armenia at the invitation of Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia and his accompanying delegation headed by RA Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex. The delegation arrived from the Russian Federation was accompanied by the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan.
RF Defense Minister laid a wreath at the memorial of the Armenian Genocide victims after which the members of the delegation put flowers at the Eternal fire and honored the memory of the innocent victims with a minute of silence.
Bidzina Ivanishvili Paid Tribute to the Memory of the Armenian Genocide Victims
18.01.2013
Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili and his delegation, who arrived in Yerevan on January 17, visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex accompanied by the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Armenia Hasmik Poghosyan and the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan.
The members of the delegation put flowers at the Eternal Fire and honored the memory of the innocent victims with a minute of silence.
It should be noted that in 2004 and 2009 President of Georgia Mikheil Sahakashvili visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex.
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