Mikhail Piotrovsky: “The entire world must recognize the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey”
03/23/2006
Regnum News Agency
“The entire world must recognize the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915, recognize and condemn the genocide system that made 20th century notorious, starting from Armenians and Jews. And the world must condemn it together, because the 20th century has demonstrated that humans are animals, not humans,” stated Head of the Russian Hermitage Museum, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Mikhail Piotrovsky on March 23, after ceremony at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial of victims of the Armenian Genocide in Yerevan.
He said that the Armenian Genocide is a great tragedy that everybody must learn from. If people resist, Genocide becomes the moral victory of victims, as became the Armenian Genocide, said Piotrovsky.
Piotrovsky, along with Director of South Caucasian branch of the Caucasian Institute for Democracy Development Foundation Armenika Kiviryan visited Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide, where he left a record in the Book of Memory.
Mikhail Piotrovsky is in Yerevan since March 21. He was invited by the Caucasian Institute for Democracy.[...].
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
Regnum News Agency
“The entire world must recognize the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915, recognize and condemn the genocide system that made 20th century notorious, starting from Armenians and Jews. And the world must condemn it together, because the 20th century has demonstrated that humans are animals, not humans,” stated Head of the Russian Hermitage Museum, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Mikhail Piotrovsky on March 23, after ceremony at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial of victims of the Armenian Genocide in Yerevan.
He said that the Armenian Genocide is a great tragedy that everybody must learn from. If people resist, Genocide becomes the moral victory of victims, as became the Armenian Genocide, said Piotrovsky.
Piotrovsky, along with Director of South Caucasian branch of the Caucasian Institute for Democracy Development Foundation Armenika Kiviryan visited Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide, where he left a record in the Book of Memory.
Mikhail Piotrovsky is in Yerevan since March 21. He was invited by the Caucasian Institute for Democracy.[...].
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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