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Mikhail Piotrovsky: “The entire world must recognize the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey”
“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. He has already read a course of lectures in Yerevan State University and Russian-Armenian (Slavic) University. In the framework of the visit he met All Armenian Catholicos Garegin II, President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan. Also, a meeting with Minister of Culture Gevork Gevorkyan is planned.
