Fabian Salvioli, UN Special Rapporteur on promoting truth, justice, reparations, and guarantees of non-repetition, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial on November 22. Edita Gzoyan, acting director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, welcomed the guests. He accompanied the guests to the Armenian Genocide Memorial, presenting the history of the creation of the memorial.
The director of AGMI also referred to the three khachkars placed in memory of the Armenians who died in the massacres organized by the Azerbaijani government in Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak), Baku in the last century in the territory of Tsitsernakaberd and the stories of the five freedom fighters who were buried in front of Hushapat during the Artsakh war, stressing the connection between what happened and the Armenian Genocide. Edita Gzoyan also referred to the historical and legal aspects of the Artsakh issue and presented Azerbaijan’s anti-Armenian actions and propaganda.
They placed flowers near the eternal fire and honored the memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide with a minute of silence. Edita Gzoyan escorted the guests to Hushapat, in unique niches at the back of which are summarized in particular niches taken from the graves of several foreign public figures, politicians, intellectuals, and missionaries who raised their voices of protest against the mass massacres of Armenians and genocide carried out by the Turkish government in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Small jars full of soil.
The guests also toured the Armenian Genocide Museum, where they got acquainted with the permanent and temporary exhibitions, accompanied by AGMI guide Elen Hakobyan, after which Mr. Fabian Salvioli made a note in the memorial book of the honored guests. Expressing gratitude for the visit, Acting Director of the Armenian Genocide, Edita Gzoyan, presented books about the Armenian Genocide to the honored guest.
