"Century-long Genocide" docu to premiere on Armenia TV

PanARMENIAN.Net - "A Century-long Genocide: Black January of Baku" will be aired today, January 20, at 11 pm on Armenia TV channel, the head of the Ordinary Genocide project, the film co-author and director Marina Grigoryan stated.

As Ms. Grigoryan said at the film presentation, the “Black January,” dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Armenian pogroms in Azerbaijan, sheds light on the unresearched pages of the tragedy, with its reality distorted by the Azeri propaganda.

The concept of the film aims to explore the inseverable connection between the early 20th century events in the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian massacres in Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh in late 1980s. The memoirs of the descendants of the Armenian Genocide survivors prove the continuity of the Turkish policies in Azerbaijan, resulting in the incessant extermination of the Armenian nation throughout the century.

The film is based on the interviews with refugees from Baku, with the full report to be released in a collection of materials in summer 2015.

According to Ms. Grigoryan, only a minor body of evidence, including documents and photos has been retained from the Baku massacres, with no video materials preserved. However, she noted, the accounts of refugees revealing the unpublished details leave no doubt that the violence against Armenians started in Baku immediately after the Sumgait massacres, culminating in eviction of the 250,000-strong Armenian population from the Azeri capital.

As Ms. Grigoryan stressed, the documentary and the collection of materials to be released will become a strong tool for the Armenian diplomacy in counteracting the Azerbaijani attempts at distorting the history of the region.