Yerevan launches conference on 1990 Massacres in Azerbaijan

Today Yerevan launched a conference dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the 1990 Massacres in Azerbaijan.

Armenia’s National Assembly’s member Larisa Alaverdian said all those massacres are called and recognized as genocide. “Genocide is not a crime against a single nation. It is a crime by a group, generally at government, against the whole humanity,” she said. In her opinion, all science circles, not only, historians and ethnologists, must rethink the reasons of these brutal actions.

The conference has been launched at the National Academy of Science of Armenia. It was attended by Public Chamber’s member Vladimir Movsisian, Director of the Institute of History of NAS Ashot Melkonian, the former foreign minister Arman Melikian, and some guests from Russia.

The movie of memories, testimonies by the refugees, and documentary episodes of those days, the ‘Baku, January 1990: an Ordinary Genocide’ film was screened at the conference. The film is dedicated to the memory of those hundreds of killed people, and dozens of hundreds of those people who had to leave Baku.