17.11.2022


A group of master’s degree students from the YSU Faculty of International Relations, with their lecturer Gurgen Hovhannisyan, were received today at the AGMI on the occasion of the International Students’ Day where they had a meeting-discussion with Harutyun Marutyan, AGMI Director.

First AGMI Director Harutyun Marutyan accompanied the students to the Genocide monument complex and gave them the history of complex’s creation. He also described the history of the three khachkars placed in the Tsitsernakaberd area in memory of the Armenians who died in the massacres in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak), and Baku in the last century, organised by the Azerbaijani government. He also told the stories of the five freedom fighters who died during the Artsakh war who are buried in front of Memory Wall (Hushapat) emphasising the connection between what happened and the Armenian Genocide. Mr. Marutyan also told them the history of the Memory Wall, the reverse of which holds relics of foreign public figures, politicians, and missionaries who raised their voices in protest against the Armenian Genocide carried out by the Turkish government.

The students also toured the Armenian Genocide Museum, where they became acquainted with the permanent and temporary exhibitions there, after which they had interesting discussions on various aspects of the Armenian Genocide with AGMI Director Harutyun Marutyan.