A total of 1.5 million people fell victim to the 1915-1923 Armenian Genocide, committed by the Ottoman Empire. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost, a whole nation has been deprived of his spiritual, educational, cultural and economic property, they have been deprived of their right to live in the majority of their historic Homeland. Foreign Minister of Armenia Ara Aivazian said about it in his message at Tsitsernakaberd Memorial.
“This planned, organized and unprecedented crime later served a base for the definition of the term ‘genocide’ and has been reflected in the international convention on Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Nevertheless, impunity has been one of the saddest lessons of the genocide forgotten by the international community. The perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide have not been brought to justice. He said the impunity of the Armenian Genocide today as well inspires those who plan new international crimes.
The recent war unleashed by Azerbaijan against Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and the genocidal actions of the Turkish-Azerbaijani alliance during it have shown that the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide is important not only from the perspective of historical justice and truth, but also for the physical security of the Armenian people,” the Minister said.
