ArmInfo. What was made to yezidis of Iraq was not a genocide, that was a massacre. This was stated by Galoust Sahakyan, the Speaker of Armenian Parliament in response to the question of Naira Zohrabyan, the Prosperous Armenia faction head regarding the issue when will be the Draft law on Yezidi Genocide submitted for the National Assembly Review.
According to Sahakyan, before Armenian parliament qualifies the yezidi massacre as genocide, that should be done by the international community. "We should promote the adjudication of yezidi massacres in Iraq as a genocide, and until that all we can do is to raise this issue in various aspects, like we use to do it now.
I don't think that our adjudication of yezidi massacres as a genocide will be of a benefit for us or for yezidi people," Sahakyan stated.
To remind, it is already several months that the draft law on yezidi genocide is circulating in Armenian parliament. But the review of the document is being postponed again and again due to various reasons.