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International Association of Genocide Scholars Executive and Advisory Boards:
Statement Condemning the Azerbaijani Blockade of the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)
03.02.2023
The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) Executive and Advisory Boards strongly condemns Azerbaijan’s blockade of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and the ongoing aggression against the indigenous Armenian population of the region and warns of the risk of genocide against the Armenian population of that entity. We reaffirm the IAGS Executive Board October 24, 2022 “Statement on Azerbaijani Aggression Against the Republic of Armenia and the Indigenous Armenians of the South Caucasus” and call for the immediate lifting of the blockade.
On December 12, 2022 the government of Azerbaijan imposed a blockade on the enclave of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) creating an ongoing humanitarian crisis for its 120,000 Armenian inhabitant, including 30,000 children and 20,000 elderly.
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Artsakh։ A Genocide by Attrition
19.01.2023
Genocide is not an event but an unfolding process.
According to Raphael Lemkin, the lawyer and human rights activist who coined the concept itself, the term “genocide” encompasses physical annihilation of a group through direct perpetration of harm or indirect action that contributes to this goal. Furthering this assertion, Lemkin also argued that “genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a national group...but is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.” With this perspective in mind, Lemkin viewed the Nazis’ passive assaults against the Jews—such as apportioning food, depriving people of basic needs to preserve health and life, withholding firewood and medicine, gathering people under conditions detrimental to health— as acts of genocide.
THE BAKU MASSACRES OF 13th-19th JANUARY, 1990
19.01.2023
A group of deputies of the RA National Assembly, representatives and teaching staff of Yerevan State University and Armenian State Pedagogical University, as well as many students and citizens, all paid their respects to the memory of the Armenians who died in the 1990 Baku pogroms, visiting the heights of Tsitsernakaberd today. They laid flowers near the khachkar erected in memory of the victims of those massacres organised by the Azerbaijani government.
The pogroms against the Armenian population of Baku, which took place between January 13 and 19, 1990, should be considered in the context of the ethnic violence and anti-Armenian policy carried out against the Armenian population living in the Azerbaijan SSR in 1988-1990. The first manifestation of this policy was the massacre of the Armenian population of the city of Sumgait during February 27 and 29, 1988. The lack of appropriate legal and political assessment of the Sumgait pogroms created an atmosphere of impunity, which contributed to the further expansion and continuation of anti-Armenian violence.
The Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry of Cyprus, Cornelius Cornelius, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial
19.01.2023
On January 19, the delegation led by the Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry of Cyprus Cornelius Cornelius, who arrived in Armenia to participate in the Armenian-Cypriot political consultations, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial.
The guests were welcomed by Lusine Abrahamyan, the AGMI Deputy Director for Museum Affairs, who presented the history of the creation of the Memorial. She also presented the history of the three khachkars placed in the Tsitsernakaberd area in memory of the Armenians who died in the massacres organised by the Azerbaijani government in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak), and Baku in the last century, emphasizing the connection between what happened and the Armenian Genocide.
The chairman of the Armenia-Mexico friendship group of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial
17.01.2023
On January 17, the delegation headed by Berenice Juarez Navarrete, the president of the Armenia-Mexico friendship group of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico, who arrived in Armenia on a working visit, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial, accompanied by Gurgen Arsenyan, the head of the Armenian-Mexico friendship group of the National Assembly of the republic of Armenia, and Armella Shakaryan, the Armenian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Mexican States.
The guests were welcomed by Harutyun Marutyan, AGMI Director who narrated the history of the creation of the Memorial. He also presented them with the history of the three khachkars placed in the Tsitsernakaberd area in memory of the Armenians who died in the massacres in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak) and Baku in the last century organised by the Azerbaijani government. He also related the stories of the five freedom fighters buried in front of the Memory Wall (Hushapat) who were killed during the Artsakh war, emphasizing the connection between what happened and the Armenian Genocide.
The Speaker of the French National Assembly, Yael Braun-Pivet, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial
13.01.2023
At the invitation of the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia (NA RA), the delegation led by the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of France Yael Broun-Pivet arrived in Armenia and visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial on 13 January, accompanied by the Speaker of the RA NA Alen Simonyan, RA NA Deputy Speaker Ruben Rubinyan, RA NA Armenia-France Friendship Group Head Vladimir Vardanyan, RA Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in the Republic of France and accompanied by Ambassador Plenipotentiary Hasmik Tolmajyan and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to the Republic of Armenia Anne Luyot.
The guests were welcomed by Harutyun Marutyan, AGMI Director who narrated the history of the creation of the Memorial. He also presented them with the history of the three khachkars placed in the Tsitsernakaberd area in memory of the Armenians who died in the massacres in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak) and Baku in the last century organised by the Azerbaijani government. He also related the stories of the five freedom fighters buried in front of the Memory Wall (Hushapat) who were killed during the Artsakh war, emphasizing the connection between what happened and the Armenian Genocide.
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The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute will be closed on January 6, 2023.
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The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation
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The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute will be closed from December 31 till January 2, 2023.
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The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation
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