25.11.2025


In recent years, legal studies have become one of the key research directions of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI).

The article “Beyond the Defective Gas Chambers: Rediscovering the Crime of Attempted Genocide,” co-authored by AGMI Director, PhD in History Edita Gzoyan, Professor at Nanterre University and AGMI Visiting Researcher Thomas Hochmann, and AGMI Researcher, PhD in Law Edgar Meyroyan, has been published in the international journal International Criminal Law Review (WOS, Scopus Q2) (link: https://doi.org/10.1163/15718123-bja10248).

For the first time, the article provides a legal assessment of the anti-Armenian pogroms that took place in Sumgait, Kirovabad (Ganja), and Baku between 1988 and 1990. Characterizing the pogroms as genocide, the authors propose invoking the relevant section of Article 3 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which criminalizes attempted genocide.

The article is also of significant importance regarding the interpretation and application of the concept of attempted genocide.