Armenia`s authorities together with Turks want to consign history and  forefathers` memory to oblivion - UAR president 

ArmInfo. The Armenian people and statehood are once again facing severe trials and challenges. This was stated by the President of the Union of Armenians of Russia (UAR) Ara Abrahamyan at the conference "Genocide. Memory and Prevention. Modern Challenges" in Moscow the day before.

"It seems that today we are once again experiencing the events of a  hundred years ago. At the beginning of the last century, taking  advantage of the situation of the First World War, the  short-sightedness of the Armenian elites and their inability to  unite, the Young Turk leaders planned and carried out the most brutal  crime - the Genocide of the Armenian people, their expulsion from  their lands. The authorities of modern Turkey, inspired by new  geopolitical realities in the world and the region, not only continue  the policy of denying the Armenian Genocide and falsifying history,  but also participate in the implementation of new crimes - in  Artsakh, in Syria. The most monstrous thing is that the Armenian  authorities today have gone further than Turkey. They question the  very fact of the Genocide, which is a violation of the country's  Constitution, and then propose to recount the killed Armenians (we  saw during the 44-day war how they treat human lives and how they can  count). A year ago, we were outraged that the Prime Minister of  Armenia avoided calling the Genocide genocide in his speech, trying  to use the word "Ekhern", a massacre, that the mandatory point for  official foreign delegations to visit the Tsitsernakaberd memorial  suddenly disappears from the state protocol, that the deputies from  the ruling party cynically call for counting the names of the victims  of the genocide, instead of presenting to the public a list of the  victims of the current war, provoked and ineptly lost by the current  government. They also call for "studying the archives to understand  what happened in 1915"! What archives? The archives that are  periodically cleaned out in Turkey? The head of state himself,  speaking to the diaspora in Switzerland, is already cynically  questioning the fact of the genocide. Thereby violating both the laws  of Switzerland and Armenia," said Ara Abrahamyan.

He believes that, following the example of Switzerland and other  countries, it is time for Armenia itself to adopt a law on criminal  punishment for the denial of the Armenian Genocide, as well as for  the moral and informational genocide of the Armenian people. "Today,  the archives of the Genocide Museum in Yerevan are already under  threat. Who guarantees their safety? The government that has been  methodically destroying all the traditional foundations of our people  since 2018? The government that, in violation of the Constitution of  Armenia, is busy redrawing borders - without relying on international  treaties, absolutely without guarantees and without regard for the  consequences of such actions? It surrendered Artsakh, proposes to  forget the Genocide and abandon the demands. Everything that unites  us - Artsakh, the memory of the Genocide, the Church - everything is  being attacked and destroyed! Nowadays, we are faced with attempts to  falsify history everywhere. In the West, they are trying to rewrite  the history of Russia, and Azerbaijan is doing the same with regard  to Armenia. Baku is destroying ancient temples in Artsakh, monuments  that testify to the heroism of the Soviet people during the Great  Patriotic War, doing everything to desecrate our history. Not to  mention the shameful trial that was held in Baku over the captured  Armenians, over the leadership of Artsakh. All this is a consequence  of the incompetent policy of the Armenian authorities," the head of  the SAR emphasized.

He also noted that the Union of Armenians of Russia, being a public  organization, has been systematically working on the recognition and  elimination of the consequences of the Armenian Genocide since its  foundation for a quarter of a century. "The Institute of  International Law at the Union of Armenians of Russia, which I once  invited a major Russian scholar, professor of international law Yuri  Barsegov to head, conducted a fundamental study and published a  unique collection "The Armenian Genocide. Responsibility of Turkey  and Obligations of the World Community. Documents and Comments" in  three volumes. The State Duma of the Russian Federation twice - in  1995 and in 2005, by its decision condemned the Armenian Genocide in  Ottoman Turkey. And Russian President Vladimir Putin personally  attended the events in Tsitsernakaberd on the centenary of the  Genocide. The address of the President of the Russian Federation to  the participants of the memorial evening in the Column Hall,  organized by the Union of Armenians of Russia on April 22, 2015, also  had a great resonance. The Armenian Church, as is known, canonized  the victims of the Genocide. But this does not mean that they are now  in the past, in history.  They live in the life of every Armenian -  with their deep faith, invincible spirit and unfulfilled dreams. We  must bring them to life. We have no right to betray their memory and  should not allow anyone to rewrite our history and erase it.  Everyone, first of all, representatives of the Armenian elite, must  finally realize this. April 24 is another reason to realize what is  happening and unite! There is no other way. You, the Armenian  authorities, together with the Turks, want to consign our history and  the memory of our ancestors to oblivion. We will not allow you to do  this! And we will continue to fight for the civilized world community  to recognize and condemn the Genocide committed 110 years ago," Ara  Abrahamyan emphasized.