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DOCUMENTS ABOUT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TO APPEAR ON INTERNET BY 2015
news.am
April 20 2011
Armenia
YEREVAN. - Reliable documents indicating the Armenian Genocide took
place in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 are preserved in the Armenian
National Archive, archive's director Amatuni Virabyan told the
journalists on Wednesday.
The documents record stories of 10,000 eyewitnesses of the bloody
events in the Ottoman Empire dating to 1914-1915. There are also
stories of the eyewitnesses recorded in 1916 describing events in
700 villages of Western Armenia.
Virabyan said the archive will publish three volumes in 2015 based on
these records. Each book will tell about the fate of residents of Van,
Bitlis and Erzrum regions.
It will be published in Armenian, English, German, French and Russian
languages.
Besides there are 2000 documents recorded based on the reports of
the Russian soldiers and Armenian volunteers. Digital copies of the
documents will appear on the Internet by 2015.
The lists of Armenian Genocide victims will be drawn up as well.
From: A. Papazian
news.am
April 20 2011
Armenia
YEREVAN. - Reliable documents indicating the Armenian Genocide took
place in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 are preserved in the Armenian
National Archive, archive's director Amatuni Virabyan told the
journalists on Wednesday.
The documents record stories of 10,000 eyewitnesses of the bloody
events in the Ottoman Empire dating to 1914-1915. There are also
stories of the eyewitnesses recorded in 1916 describing events in
700 villages of Western Armenia.
Virabyan said the archive will publish three volumes in 2015 based on
these records. Each book will tell about the fate of residents of Van,
Bitlis and Erzrum regions.
It will be published in Armenian, English, German, French and Russian
languages.
Besides there are 2000 documents recorded based on the reports of
the Russian soldiers and Armenian volunteers. Digital copies of the
documents will appear on the Internet by 2015.
The lists of Armenian Genocide victims will be drawn up as well.
From: A. Papazian