Zatulin: inattention to Armenian genocide turns out to repetition of similar misanthropic experiments

YEREVAN, November 26. /ARKA/. Inattention to the Armenian Genocide turns out to repetition of similar misanthropic experiments, the victims of which can be not only Armenians, said Konstantin Zatulin, member of the Russian State Duma committee on CIS affairs and communication with co-patriots during the video-bridge Yerevan-Moscow “New ‘eastern issue’: Ankara and Yerevan under the US pressure?” organized by the agencies RIA Novosti and AMI “Novosti-Armenia.”

“We support Armenia in its attitude to the past, because elementary conscience and justice demand this,” he said.

The Armenian Genocide is considered the first genocide of the 20th century, organized and systematically executed by the Young Turkish government. More than 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered in different regions of Western Armenia that was part of Ottoman Empire at that time.

The Armenian Genocide is recognized by many countries, among them Uruguay (the first state that officially recognized the Genocide in 1965), Lithuania, Russia, France, the Lower Chamber of Italian parliament and the most of U.S. states, parliaments of Greece, Cyprus, Argentina, Belgium, Wales, National Council of Switzerland, Chamber of Commons of Canadian parliament and Seym of Poland. L.M. –0--