KHACHATUR ABOVYAN ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Teaching staff and students of Armenian State Pedagogical University today visited the Tsitsernakabert Memorial in Yerevan to mark the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. 

They joined hundreds of thousands of mourners marching to the hilltop memorial throughout  the day and laid flowers to the Genocide memorial in remembrance of 1.5 million Armenians massacred by Ottoman Turkey between 1915 and 1923. ASPU representatives carried posters condemning the Genocide and called on Turkey to restore justice and recognise the crime against the Armenian people.

Dean of the Faculty of History and JurisprudenceEdikGevorgyan said in his speech that as time passes, the demand and need for an adequate legal and political assessment to the Genocide grow. “It is not accidental that on the threshold of the 100th anniversary of the Genocide, the Armenian people appeal to international tribunals and organisations as a claimant, especially at the moment when the main perpetrator of the Genocide – Turkey - in the person of the country’s prime minister is trying to mislead the world and distort the facts, trying to prove the hypothesis of the Turkish historiography that the occurrence was nothing but the displacement of people during World War I,” said MrGevorgyan.

He emphasised the role of the Pedagogical University in shaping the sense of claimants [over the 1915-23 events] in future generations: future educators should ‘inject’ Genocide inside future generations both historically and scientifically.

Let us mention that the Pedagogical Universityorganised a series of events to mark the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, including conferences,matinees and exhibitions.