RA NA Speaker Alen Simonyan’s message on the occasion of the Armenian Genocide Victims Memorial Day.
“In 1915, when the wheel of the history of the Armenian people broke down, when the crime of depopulation peaked, and the voice of the Western Armenian intelligentsia was silenced forever, the world’s indifference was broken by famous philanthropists. They cried out against the Armenian-killing policy by all possible means; they recorded the injustice, drawing attention to the massacre of one and a half million Armenians. It is during the days of massacres when the German chancellor receives a letter from the ambassador of his country, which says that by exterminating the Armenian nation and solving the “Armenian question,” the Turkish government refuses to accept the representatives of Germany, the Americans, the Pope’s delegation, refuses to listen to the Westerners representing one-third of the world—public opinion.
Many years later, the advanced world officially recognizes and condemns the Armenian Genocide, and the Pope canonizes the victims of the Genocide.
Even today, we witness the danger and depopulation policy plaguing our country when they are brutally trying to erase the Armenian trace and eliminate our culture. Unfortunately, the possibility of genocide in the century entering the last stages of civilization has not disappeared. The world must unanimously reject and exclude the repetition of genocides for the sake of development and progress, for the sake of the new citizen of the new world.”
Peace to the souls of our innocent victims; let us live, and let our country live.
