Following RA premier`s statements mission of Armenian Genocide  Museum-Institute becomes meaningless - Hayk Demoyan

ArmInfo. Following yesterday's statements by RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the activities and mission of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute have become meaningless and unnecessary. This is stated in an open letter from the former head of the institute Hayk Demoyan to the management, academic council and members of the Board of Trustees of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute. 

As the historian noted, yesterday's statements, as well as the  justification of the results of the genocide, made the work carried  out at the institute immoral. "Now you have only one opportunity to  clear yourselves of this grave characterization: to give a clear  scientific, legal and moral assessment of the inhumane and anti-state  formulations voiced in yesterday's statement. Yesterday, Nikol  Pashinyan openly justified the deprivation of people of their  homeland, which contradicts the provisions of the UN Convention on  the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted on  December 9, 1948.  You remained silent and did not assess the ethnic  cleansing and genocide committed against the Armenians of Artsakh, in  which the RA authorities, represented by Nikol Pashinyan, actively  participated.  You left unanswered the statements of Nikol Pashinyan  and the Civil Contract party, which emphasized the denial and  contestation of the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide.  Obviously, with such silence, you involuntarily became accomplices,  serving and justifying the statements and criminal actions of Nikol  Pashinyan. Let me remind you that the same Nikol Pashinyan qualified  the 44-day war 2020 and the events of September 2023 as "genocide",  but yesterday's statements were nothing more than an undisguised  service to this very genocide and recording of its results. I  consider it obligatory for the Museum - Institute of the Armenian  Genocide to respond in the format of a public statement," Hayk  Demoyan's message says.

Recall that during his message yesterday, RA Prime Minister Nikol  Pashinyan called for forgetting about Artsakh.