Today, a students’ conference headed as “the Armenian Genocide” Recognition and Condemnation” was held at the Pedagogical University.
The Dean of the Faculty, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor Edick Gevorgyan greeted the participants of the conference, highly praised this initiative discussing the historical and legal facts of the Armenian Genocide at the University.
The future historians and lawyers spoke about the Young Turks’ policy of the Armenian Genocide, the massacre of the Armenian children during those years as a form of Genocide, the US official documents and adoption of the bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide and its consequences in France.
The senior student of the Faculty of History Mr. Arman Abrahamyan mentions in his report, “Numerous documents prove that the Armenian Genocide was planned on the highest level of the Ottoman Turkey Government and was implemented under the direct control of highest officials; a vast majority of those documents were signed by the sultan, the prime minister or ministers.
The second year MA student Tatevik Haroutyunyan out of numerous archive and documentary scientific research works particularly outlined in her report the three volume collection “the US official documents about the Armenian Genocide” published in the city of Watterson in 1993, USA, which was compiled and edited by the Armenian historian Ara Safaryan.
The future lawyer, sophomore Irina Margaryan called for the attention on the fact that the superpowers including the USA and France usually raise the bills and formulas of the Genocide on the threshold off elections. TO her mind, no discussions of the bill on the Genocide should be anticipated before the new parliamentary and presidential elections in France, let alone the adoption of the law by the parliament.
In addition, her fellow student Hmayak Haroutyunyan called for the attention of those present on the massacre of Armenian children as a form of Genocide. He referred to the fact that the Turkish manifestation of “saving” the life of the Armenian children, motived as attempts to observe it as “humanism” often mentioned in literature are strongly questionable.
“The violence against the minors was realized according to the targeted activities planned in prior such as the crime actions urged by the Turkish and Kurdish mobs, murder, ruining families, killing children before their parents and mass deportations,” Hmayak Haroutyunyan mentioned.
What is more, the senior student of the Department of Pedagogy of Law Hayk Kosayan also cited in his report about the “Legal Grounds for the Recognition of the Armenian Genocide” the Article 9 of the UN International Court Charter, “Countries have the right to unilaterally bring proceedings about the Genocide to the UN International Court; the abovementioned Convention was approved by Turkey and Armenia without any reservations. The court, based on the provided demand and suggestion, as well as based on the study of legal and historical facts, will then decide the question of the Turkish responsibility”.
More to the point, the student concluded his report with the fact that applying to the court is a complicated procedure which requires a comprehensive research of historical facts, international law; applying to the court without prior accurate preparedness may bring up heavy consequences.
It should also be mentioned, that among those present at the students conference on “the Armenian Genocide; Recognition and Condemnation” organized and held by the Student Scientific Society of the Faculty of History and Law was the Deputy Dean of Science and Postgraduate affairs, Mr. Frunzei Mayilyan, the teaching-professorial team and the students.
