Prague conference to mark centenary of Armenian genocide

The genocide of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey will be debated at a conference staged by the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague today and it will be attended by Eduard Sharmazanov, deputy chairman of the Armenian parliament, among the guests. Prague post reports.

On Monday, the 100th anniversary of the genocide, the exhibition “Genocide of Armenians on Front Pages of World Press” was opened in Prague inside the Czech Museum of Music and will last until March 22.

The exhibition features the international period press that paid great attention to the persecution of Armenians and their massacring.
Reporters from Britain, France, Russia and the United States wrote about the Hamidian massacres in 1894–96, the atrocities in Adana province of 1909 and the genocide in 1915–23.

Many reports dealt with the humanitarian consequences of the genocide, including the fate of deported Armenians, care of the orphans and the salvation of kidnapped women and children.

Another conference in Prague's Goethe Institute on Wednesday will also discuss the genocide and current Islamic fundamentalism.
It will be held under the aegis of the Armenian Embassy and the Italian Culture Institute in Prague.

The major guests will be Armenian Ambassador to the Czech Republic Tigran Seyrajnyan and two former Czech foreign affairs ministers, Cyril Svoboda and Karel Schwarzenberg.