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Amatuni Virabyan: There are enough documents in the archive to initiate a court trial against Turkey


Amatuni Virabyan
Amatuni Virabyan

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Yerevan/Mediamax/. Director of National Archive of Armenia Amatuni Virabyan said today that there are all the necessary documents on Armenian Genocide in the archive which will help initiate a court trial against Turkey.

Ahead of the Armenian Genocide Centennial, the National Archive is going to publish collections on Armenians’ material and cultural losses over the Genocide years, Mediamax reports.

 

“We are willing to reveal all the documents on the issue preserved in the archive within upcoming years. It’s work of many years” ,said the Director of the Archive.

 

In 2015, the Archive will also publish a collection of documentary materials on the property owned by Armenian Church including Western Armenian churches.

 

“We have a large number of documents on the ownership of our churches even in the Ottoman Turkish language. Now we aim to translate them into Armenian or English”, said Amatuni Virabyan.

 

According to him, the works on creating an e-vault of names of the Armenian Genocide victims are underway. “I don’t think we will be able to collect the names of 1.5million victims. Long time has passed and we just started the work. But I think we will be able to publish around 300 thousand names. Presently, the Archive preserves files of around 30 thousand Armenian orphans whose killed parents’ names are known”, said Amatuni Virabyan.

 

Ahead of 2015, the Archive will also start another project presenting stories of 100 Armenians who survived the Genocide, found refuges abroad and became recognized figures in culture, science or business fields.

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