11 June 2015, 00:58
Photos of monuments of Western Armenia presented at exhibition "Genocide after Genocide"
In Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, more than 60 photographs of endangered monuments of Western Armenia are demonstrated at the mobile photo exhibition "Genocide after Genocide". The exhibition is being held at the initiative of the administration of the State Historical Regional Museum of Nagorno-Karabakh and is dedicated the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
On June 8-9, the photographs were presented at the Youth Palace in Stepanakert. On June 10, the exhibition was available for residents of the town of Idjevan in Armenia. And then, the exhibition will proceed to the cities of Echmiadzin and Yerevan.
The term "Western Armenia" is a conditional expression to determine the western part of Armenia, which in the early 20th century used to be a part of the Ottoman Empire, the website "Genocide.ru" reports. At present, the whole territory of Western Armenia is a part of the territory of the Republic of Turkey.
According to Melanya Balayan, the Director of the State Historical Regional Museum of Nagorno-Karabakh, the architectural monuments presented at the photographs are unique by the fact that some of them "have disappeared because of the policies carried out by the authorities of modern Turkey" during just one or several years, while others continue to dilapidate.
"These photographs are the evidence that the Armenian Genocide is still going on. At present, Armenian cultural values are being destroyed on historical Armenian lands that are now a part of the territory of modern Turkey," Melanya Balayan said.
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.
Author: Alvard Grigoryan Source: CK correspondent
